Various commenters have noted our talks with North Korea ignore the brutal treatment that government affords its people, this by Paul Mirengoff at Power Line is an example. I want to ask an apparently naive question: why should we care?
I am of the opinion a country's people get, over time, the government they deserve. It is really almost impossible to maintain a widely disliked police state. Generally, governments rule via the consent of a lot of the governed - more often than not, a majority either support the government or don't care enough to do anything about it.
It isn't our job to tell the Koreans north of the 38th parallel how they should be governed. The Kims, all three generations, have convinced their people to allow them to continue in office.
Enough people support the Kim's rule for it to continue. If and when that is no longer the case, the Norks will have a different government.
What is our business is when North Korea threatens us or our allies in the region - Japan and South Korea. I presume abating this nuisance is what Trump is about in Singapore.
I wish Trump well. Regime change for North Korea can become our goal if it is the only way to get them to stop threatening the destruction of other countries; what they do with their own is an internal matter, not our affair.
