N. Korea demands S. Korea resume large-scale food aid

And should they say no?

Translation, we pissed everything away trying to build a mighty military in the hopes of unifying Korea under the communist umbrella and now we can't feed our own people so you will, or else.

People have been dying of starvation and lack of medical facilities and medicines for decades now in N.Korea, but the I think govt has always rejected or shrugged off humanitarian aid due to the too proud to beg ego problem.

Things must be getting really bad i.e: not enough foof left to feed the million man army. Which most probably any aid will go to anyways.

You guys ever known a someone like that.
Always on his last buck... "Hey man, I just paid the rent and need a bit of money to feed the kids".
You lend him some, knowing that he probably won't pay you back, but you feel sorry for him.
After this has gone on for a while, you notice that he's not really helping himself... just changed his phone for the newer model, smoking one after the other, goes to the bar 3-4 times a week.
You get sick of it, you just want to shake him up a bit and say NO.

NK is a lot like that guy and maybe it's time to REALLY say no.
Sure I'd feel sorry if the people suffer but they could help themselves with a good old-fashioned peasant revolt.

What's the worst that could happen... besides a few nukes being fired back and forth.

From what I understand this aid hardly goes to help the common man, but instead goes to his massive military.

Its doesn't take a genius to figure it out how NK can support such a massive war machine when its has no real ecomony or trade.

And where do you think the people of NK think this stuff is coming from.
Certainly not common knowledge that they need foreign aid, or if it is, it's twisted around so that the outside world is responsible for them needing it.

The people probably think...
their great nation is able to feed them 3 times over
their supreme leader can make everything himself... all he needs is water.

Why we keep propping these fuckwits up I'll never know.

Let em burn and collapse, give the Chinese something to do for a change.

I wouldn't be surprised they don't even know that they are receiving forgien aid.

I can't help but recall the documetry I saw "Undercover in N.Korea", when this nepalese doctor treats patients for cataract, some had been blind for years. I think it was a 100 patients in one week.

All of them have their bandages taken off in a hall toghter, and the first thing all of them did without fail went up to the pic of "great leader" and bowed down, thanked, hailed and worshipped him.

Not a single one even ackowledged the nepalese doctor ! or maybe they knew they were being watched, very hard to tell if it was just display put on for the master or they actually meant it

Because people feel sorry for the common folk of Korea who are the ones suffering. But what's the point when the aid just goes to the military. The other reason SK gives food aid is to keep NK quiet. Gotta keep those engines of capitalism running, and all, don't want any disruptions. But SK and the US should man up, say no more aid, let China feed NK, since it's China that's blocking anything being done about NK. But then the US can't man up, because it's doing it's own dance of appeasement with China. When you give away your income generating capacity (manufacturing) to another country while continuing to spend like a drunken sailor, sooner or later you're going to get a bill presented to you.

Hate to say, but let them starve. That's the only way to get the North Koreans to rise up and put an end to their foul government.

True, but I seriously doubt a revolution can be fought while near starvation and while the ruling elites and army is well fed.

And when you have China to prop up the regime. China would not stand idly by during a revolution. I really don't know what China is playing at. They should be pressuring NK to make the kind of changes that have worked so well for China. By allowing this nutbar regime to continue, China is asking for instability on it's border and trouble with the west, when it could just make NK a nice, well behaved little satellite the way Russia did with Eastern Europe.

I don't think they'd invade and I also don't think they'd actively support the NK regime with the arms they'd need to put down a rebellion. In short, yeah, I think they'd sit it out because they have nothing to gain from taking sides in NK.

I doubt they will. If you don't even respond when they sink one of your warships....