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Few people cannot help but empathize with the plight of the common North Korean citizens living in primitive conditions while their rights are cavalierly trampled by the brutish regime of North Korean Chairman Kim Jong Un. At first glance, it seems obvious that anything that can be done to improve this must be done. 

After all, as the future sixth US President John Quincy Adams said in 1821 as U.S. Secretary of State: “Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has