Even though North Korea is a terrible place to live: There are many refugees that will attest to this, I still feel some empathy for Kim, who has to keep everything together with a rabid CCP to the North, and harsh sanctions from the world. The poverty and energy-poverty that exists may well be due to these sanctions.

North Korea has nuclear rockets. Yeah, we know. But what if this is a reaction to the privations caused by a proxy war between communists and the USA, in the fifties? Wouldn't you make an arsenal to deter maniacs from military/industrial complexes fighting in your country?

I disagree with the communist model of education. I disagree with the education that is offered in the West as well. It is full of lies. So what's different there except for the content?

I also disagree with the deprivation that the population faces. But that makes me empathic. They have to do it, to survive.

From all accounts, the military and the police are used as tools against the population. Well, guess what? We are a hair's breadth away from that situation. Take the plank out of your own eyes, before criticizing the other man's stick.

At least Trump reached out. The only president since the Korean war to do so. Bai Den is a rabid CCP sympathiser. That should tell you something about Kim.