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This reminds me of all of the HIV medication, and malaria drugs we send to horridly poor dictatorships of the world. They're intercepted by the government and sold on the black market. If you feed the North Korean people with massive food drops, Kim will say it's his doing. Drop video players to them with cards, and they will slaughter everyone in a village just for having one.

Food would be nice, medicine would be better, all labeled with the American flag, and after five years of this the brainwashed people might, might see America as a savior.

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If you do it at a large enough scale it will be impossible to collect it all and it will completely destroy the North Korean military's morale.

They won't be able to claim it as theirs because you'd label all the food in English and Korean. With a picture of people of different ethnicities hold hands and smiling.

Oh, also you'd drop appropriate medicine as well, because many NK's are riddled with parasites.

> If you do it at a large enough scale it will be impossible to collect it all and it will completely destroy the North Korean military's morale.

Again - do we have any evidence that this might be true? From what I understand, the NorK true believers are actually true believers. I have a friend, nominally intelligent, who has decided to become a flat-earther. (I don't know why). He is immune to evidence at this point. It's the weirdest thing you ever did see. Do we have any evidence that the NorK military would be any different?

FWIW - I do admire your optimism.

I started to write something about dropping massive amounts of LDS on the North Korean people, and Kim Jong-Un looking like the stay puff marshmallow man, but I digress...

It's a tough choice. Dropping large amounts might get military action. Kim could say it's food today, but they will start dropping poison to look like food. The medicine is ok now, but it will be poison next! Shoot it down! Burn it! I think these poor folks are so brainwashed it will take a long time of systematic kindness to make a dent.

I too believe that Latter Day Saints would be a good import for north Korea. But I am a big fan of Mormons

It's rumored North Korea already kidnapped an Elder.

>>If you do it at a large enough scale it will be impossible to collect it all and it will completely destroy the North Korean military's morale.

Other communist regimes exiled your entire extended family to prison camps for such things. Do this for 50 years, add propaganda night and day and what you said doesn't happen.

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