Why the hell does the world tolerate this regime? Why not have a coalition that goes in and free these people? Isn't that the right thing to do?
Nobody wants the responsibility for "bringing it up to code." Aside from the difficulty of de-brainwashing 25 Million people, it would cost an entire country's GDP to support the kind of reforms needed for DPRK to become "modern" to a Chinese standard.
It's a political Rat King.
It's not that simple. Education about capitalism is important.
North Koreans seeing the relative wealth of south Koreans is necessary to fuel a revolution.