U.N. backs plan to unblock humanitarian aid to North Korea

So much winning - for North Korea.

I know people are suffering in NK, but the UN should not do this. Why? Because it will free up Kim and regime to keep doing what they've been doing for decades. If you stop it, eventually NK's regime will have to step up to the plate and do their job of taking care of their own people, or suffer the consequences of not doing so.

Do not enable NK to keep doing this. It is time for some of that "tough love" through inaction until they realize they need to take action themselves.

Baby steps.

Do not enable NK to keep doing this

To be fair, it was ususally broken promises on the part of the US, Bill Clinton specifically. You just don't hear about it so much in the gilded MSM.

I'm all for humanitarian aid. But how are we to ensure that such aid does not end up in the hands of the North Korean People's Liberation Army under North Korea's Song-Gun (Military First) policy? This has happened with food aid in the past. Are the North Koreans prepared to allow UN Inspectors in to verify that the humanitarian aid actually goes to the civilians who need it?

Kim looks like he's gleefully saying, "let the people eat this". While he dines on more rich and appetizing food.

When Kim gets enough humanitarian and economic aid to replenish his stockpile, he'll resume the missile and nuclear threats and the demands for unification under DPRK regime.

I understand what people are saying about concerns that humanitarian aid could let the DPRK's rulers off the hook, but we're talking "critical, life-saving humanitarian activities" here. Are you really willing to sentence millions of people to undernourishment and worse, just for the sake of a political principle? Isn't that what the Dear Leader is doing to his people in the first place?

Unfortunately, there are some times when you must step aside and allow nature to take it's course. It's the only way to teach the necessary harsh lessons that there are severe consequences for one's actions and choices. Many people in NK will flee the country or die trying rather than starve to death until Kim has no more people. It will cost the regime much more than it would cost the rest of the world that is concerned about the situation.

I can only imagine if Kim did anything useful such as put all that money his regime has been dumping into nuclear research towards agricultural R&D to feed his people, which would make them more productive, which would lead to more economic development.... But nah, they want their WMDs.

Unfortunately, there are some times when you must step aside and allow nature to take it's course. It's the only way to teach the necessary harsh lessons that there are severe consequences for one's actions and choices. Many people in NK will flee the country or die trying rather than starve to death until Kim has no more people. It will cost the regime much more than it would cost the rest of the world that is concerned about the situation.

And only thousands and thousands of innocent people unlucky enough to be born on that piece of soil instead of this one, will die.

And only thousands and thousands of innocent people unlucky enough to be born on that piece of soil instead of this one, will die.

That's reality. Hundreds of thousands of innocent people are dying in many other countries every year besides NK man. And yet there is silence... you wanna fix it all? Short of a magic wand to manipulate human nature, you're going to be SOL. NK's regime is responsible for this mess. Don't fix their problem for them, make them learn to take the steps to fix it themselves. And when they finally do take the correct steps forward, then be willing to help them.

Enabling hurts more than it helps, no matter what the cost.