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Loads of reasons. It has (or at least had) protection from China who doesn't want a Western nation at it's border. It can wreck havoc on SK if invaded. It would cause loads and loads of casualties to invade.
In any case: The way SK is going now, all NK has to do is wait another 30-50 years and they can just walk in empty land, there.
Because China.
China sees NK as a buffer to the US, sort of a little brother that's a bit too crazy so they have to tug on the leash to get them to chill every now and then.
We've already got bases in SK, but the Yellow sea separates us from China. NK is the land barrier.
We see and hear what the US state dept wants us to hear. And nothing more.
As to the core of your question. The answer is nukes. Nukes are the only way to fend off the imperial aggression of the United States and its imperialist partners.
It's the same reason why the world is leting Israel commit genocide, or not get involved in the Yemen Civil War, or ongoing genocide in Maynamer, or the dozens of current active war zones.
The world simply doesn't care. The wold only cares when the global economy is being threatened.
It's not that people "don't care". We've tried intervening with force in e.g. Afghanistan, where the oppressive regime was forcibly removed, and military power was used to ensure that elections were held and the results were respected.
We have observed, several times, that everything goes to shit when we leave. Not only that, but people generally don't seem like it when outsiders take over and tell them how to run their country, who should be allowed an education, and that cannot be oppressed. So a side effect of the armed intervention is that a lot more people hate you now.
Western countries "aren't doing anything" because we've both learned from experience that military intervention doesn't really work, and been repeatedly told by the rest of the world to mind our own business.
There’s a novella by Ursula K Leguin called The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas wherein there is a utopian society that is able to exist because of the misery of one child who endures all of the hardship and sadness of the society. NK is that child for the world. They are kept like a specimen in a cabinet of curiosities warning everyone against communism, making the “free” in the West thankful for what modicum of freedom they’ve managed to preserve.
We all see and hear what goes on over there
First, the ROK unfiltered propaganda on DPRK is as believable as Ukrainian propaganda. We all know "the pure unvarnished truth" as the complete trust in that propaganda.
The US's unjustified war on Korea was to overthrow a democratic unification election in which the less corrupt North party won. Ever since, an oligarchist duopoly has been propped up by the US, and standard of living is determined by the isolationism imposed by US/ROK alliance.
DPRK is aligned with winning future alliance, and ROK is being canibalized, like other colonies, by its master. DPRK has always been the stronger military side, by necessity, and the future is likely better for them. In your example, "why not do something about the US for actual verified first hand threats to citizens not cheering enough for Trump"?
Interesting tankie take.
Holy hilarious nerve hitting, Batman. Superman is the American way/might that simplistically pretends to side with truth and justice.
Strange Red Herring.
Care to talk about Chewbacca next?
It's a whole ocean away which means you are not allowed to invade. And decades of sanctions make it hard for diplomacy.