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Any idea why China and Russia keep North Korea in such a bad shape, it is not in their interest to not have this regime collapse and get "infected" with freedom and human rights?

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Do you mean why they don't let it die?

Are they helping? From the BBC article I read a week ago the people are starving, so they are letting them die, is bad PR at least for Russia that points at N Korea as an ally and friend and a model of a country that is not "degenerate"

If there are 10 starving people and I feed 9 of them, am I helping?

They don't run the place, and they simply keep it propped up as a proxy defense against the "Western" South Korea.

This is my point, the people starve so they are doing a bad job at propping it up - a rebellion can start and their "Ally and friend" is gone.

Propping up an entire failed county is hard. China does a lot better in NK than the US did in Iraq or Afghanistan.

Why would be hard, they can put them to work in factory to do cheap shit and give them food.

Or alternatively, people aren’t in fact starving and wouldn’t consider rebellion.

It wouldn’t be the first time western media consistently lied about something.

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