(November 13, 2013 at 1:08 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote:(November 12, 2013 at 1:48 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Unless a significant portion of the military is turned, a key portion of most revolutions. The starvation could be alleviated substantially by lifting economic sanctions.
Unfortunately the military is among the first fed, so it's unlikely they'll turn against the government. Kim Jong Il was no idiot, he knew that in order to keep a loyal military he had to keep their bread buttered.
Every dictator knows that, yet some soldiers still throw in with the revolutionaries. There's an ironic phenomenon where people who are the most deprived will tolerate the most oppression which may partly account for it. Who has time to think about revolution when they're starving?
