Inside North Korea: “We are stuck, waiting to die”
www.bbc.co.uk
For months, the BBC has been communicating in secret with three North Koreans living in the country. They expose, for the first time, the disaster unfolding there since the government sealed the borders more than three years ago.

An alarming look into current conditions inside DPRK

  • Jean_Lurk_Picard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    It’s insane to me that at the end of the article Chan Ho (the male) says he wishes the West would go to war with North Korea and topple the government. It’s sad to think that this is the only option available since 1. Citizens can’t even trust each other and 2. They’re more concerned about surviving the week without dying of stsrvstion. Kim Jong Un has effectively eliminated the possibility of revolution/uprising.i wonder what his thinking is. If he continues like this his population will dwindle and infrastructure will crumble. The effects will travel upwards to his position until he has to burn through all his wealth to rule over no one.

    • tallwookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 years ago

      it’s not in the West’s interest to intervene in an internal matter like that, humanitarian crisis or no - if anyone is positioned to actually do something it’d be either China or South Korea, but China has no interest in having millions of starving, untrained people flooding its borders and only the older generation of SK (their version of the Boomer generation) cares about what happens to NK.

      no, the unfortunate reality is that the scenario you described will play out.