Coercion or Compassion: How Should the U.S. Strategize North Korea's COVID-19 Crisis?
Coercion or Compassion: How Should the U.S. Strategize North Korea’s COVID-19 Crisis? Pressure results in counterpressure, which makes sanctions less effective. But compassion destroys authoritarian us-versus-them narratives, making people doubt their dictators. South Korea’s Unification Minister Lee In-young has alerted the world to North Korea’s coronavirus crisis by saying that “coronavirus is crippling production and supply chains for crops…which will likely cause extreme famine...” North Korea’s leader Kim Jong-un has recently confirmed these fears by comparing the looming ...