he phrased it in a unique way which prevents argument. he said:It's people are happy with all they know.
I thought he said it really well, which is why i did not refute. If your living in a basement, and its all you know, you never saw the sky, you never heard music, you would not be unhappy, because its all you know.
even phrased that way it's entirely incorrect. now, if we were talking about a north korea that had been isolated and ruled by the Kims for several hundred years, sure. but many of the people there are the kids or grand kids of people who lived in a pre-divided Korea. They have been told that meat wasn't always a rarity, that people weren't always starving, that blackouts weren't a common thing, that deathcamps for your whole family weren't always the punishment, etc.
i must have listened to a dozen north korean escapee interviews, and every one of them agrees that each person in the nation knows how bad it is. news trickles in via china and tourism. they know they're being starved and they know who is responsible, they just can't do anything about it.
and even pre-nuclear North Korea may have been impossible to invade, too many missiles pointed directly at Tokyo and Seoul.