Relying on "strong leaders" are one of biggest downfalls of humanity.
Not relying on yourself is one of your pitfalls, it will go on and on and on until enough is enough or you will die and someone else will take place in pitfall.
Loathing politicians, looking for savior, looking for strong political leader, waiting for someone. Protesting against yourself on the street. Putting someone in charge then putting them away with hope that someone else "good enough" will take place.
So instead finding something you would like to do, we must commit to exercises, motivation(discipline), regulations, restrictions in hope that reward will outweigh something we really do not want commit to.
I like these sanctions, the one aimed at Iraq starting from 1990's. Really helped for everyone living there. Who would not love a dying child from hunger on his arms, it is like a Easter present.
There's a pretty easy way for the government to avoid situations like that. If your people are at the mercy of foreign governments in order to survive, it really is in your best interest to not continuously piss them off.
The DPRK has been taught over the years that if they rattle their sabers and then back down, they get foreign aid. As far as they're concerned, it's a winning strategy.
Is it a sane strategy? Decidedly not -- one day the foreign aid won't come, or it won't be enough, and their only option is to escalate. When they become a credible & real threat (which they are very quickly becoming), other nations will have no choice but to act out of self-preservation.
That is working on the assumption that the government in question gives a shit about their population.
The problem here is that the sanctions hits a population that is already suffering under the actions of their own government, and has much less of an effect on the regime it is meant to punish.
If you look at what these sanctions are aiming to do, they are very specifically targeted at the senior leadership of North Korea. The sanctions go after the "illicit activities of North Korean diplomatic personnel, North Korean banking relationships, illicit transfers of bulk cash and new travel restrictions", most of which will not directly affect the vast majority of children in the country.
Without the incident, there is no heroic life to be lived.
There is no lessons to be learned, there is no one left to be saved.
You must see little bit further how everything interacts like a connected cogwheels.
First you have emotional burst, the anger, the sadness, full range of emotions, then, you must go further than that. Then you must see how well it have played out.
