Reply #55: I don't buy into the assertion that the DPRK

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can't be bought and overrun by corporations - there are larger problems in the DPRK that don't allow for these kind of concerns. The DPRK is a totalitarian military-police state that is led by an unmoving nepotistic dictatorship based on a cult of personality (like Stalin, but extensively moreso), supported by a military apparatus led by those related to that nepotistic dictatorship, whose sole purpose is to keep the republic intact through the intimidation of its people and its neighbours, the latter to extract concessions to temporarily placate its aggresive tendencies (read: policies) only to rattle their sabres again when the time comes for more concessions. It's a country that has purposely neglected the needs of its people to fill the trough of those who the government sees as essential to its survival (the leadership, the military, and their pet projects) so that they can live to die another day, but never fail to put on a brave face regarless of its hopelessness. Oh yeah, and it espouses communism/stalinism.

Is the DPRK Evil? Yes, stalinism or not. The US government can't stand the thought that the DPRK can't be bought and overrun by so-and-so? I don't think it matters, because we can't even answer the question of whether or not they're truly interested in talking with others to bring about change. There are larger issues that need to be addressed by both the DPRK and the rest of the world before heading down that road.