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The worst thing is to have a strong opinion while knowing nothing. To avoid this, one should study the facts and learn the nuances that exist in the world. But another bad thing - not as bad, but still bad - is to let the nuances paralyze you from forming any strong opinion.
This is especially true when you're dealing with a complex problem like N Korea. A lot of the hatred toward N Korea is ignorant and reflexive. That must be rightfully rejected. But also bad is to face an evil like the Kim Jong Un regime and decline to take a position.
On this site, I would probably fall on the dovish side of N Korean affairs simply because I'm not secretly cheering for a nuclear war. But make no mistake - if there is justice in the world, Kim Jong Un and his coterie would all receive a bullet in their heads.
Nor do I like falling into the easy separation b/w the bad regime and the good people. Knowing more nuance makes that separation impossible. Everyone who lives in a society implicitly supports the society's continued existence. How much blame one might assign for such support -
- each person needs to work that out on her own. I was just writing a thing about the N Korean defector who came to S Korea in 2017, then desperately swam across the DMZ to return to N Korea. Is he "good" or "bad"? Can we make that calculation 25m more times?
