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I think you are asking some great questions here. I would also like to know what is different now than 10-15 years ago when many of the suffering could have been prevented.
From what I've seen and read so far, it looks like N. Korea is trying to stage some kind of Chinese style crawl towards open markets and capitalism. Part of Kim Jong Il's challenge is to keep his loyalists paid and happy which explains the millions of commoners who have been starving to death for years. I feel he is starting to lose this control and perhaps he is being forced to engage in trade and open markets by meeting U.S. demands.
Personally, I would like this dictator deposed and allow an eventual reunification of the two Koreas, but politically, it would be impossible until all of the old guards in S. Korean politics are dead or removed. Perhaps the secrets that they will share will end up being nothing. Afterall, the seismographic data that was collected during their "test" proved unimpressive.
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"The greatest tyrannies are always perpetrated in the name of the noblest causes." Thomas Paine
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