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As is rational, I hate to say it, but western countries being the enemy in their eyes would make any gift seem like a potential trojan horse, I can see why they would avoid any such risk.

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Any "trojan horse" is a propaganda one. Kim knows exactly how they work, but the act of improving lifes of North Koreans via "western" act would undermine their own propaganda.

They will gladly starve their people if they can blame USA for that.

I agree. They pursue maximum preservation of power, local optimization at the detriment of their people.

They also rejected the Chinese and Russian vaccines. China and Russia are pretty much as much of an ally as North Korea is gonna get.

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