[Obadiah]

I understand your point. I am just inclined to think that, as a people, the Norks are completely cowed. Generations now have spent their lives utterly subjugated and broken that they would eat their own children rather than rise up against others or the regime (outside of isolated incidents.)

Very, very tragic. And no one in the entire world seems capable of doing anything to help these people.

[BobL]

“I understand your point. I am just inclined to think that, as a people, the Norks are completely cowed.”

Actually, if you study history carefully, oppressed people hardly ever rise up on their own against oppressors. There is ALMOST ALWAYS and instigating factor - some outside influence that gets them riled up and ready to fight.

In the Russia, before the Soviet Union, the Bolsheviks tried their best to get the peasants to revolt, but usually found themselves at the short end of an execution each time they tried entering one of the oppressed villages. They finally gave up on that approach and instead went after the much better off factory workers and elites in the cities.