US sentences crypto expert to 5 years after North Korea blockchain presentation

Re:US sentences crypto expert to 5 years after North Korea b... by ipaddr on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @07:43PM (#31021707)

If you prevent the next door neighbour from bringing in food because you have a fued with them you can't turn around and say look at those kids not eating. It's because you live like kings.

They spend money on military not to supress the local population, they do it to protect themselves against you.

You are morally responsible for your choices including preventing kids from eating.

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Re:US sentences crypto expert to 5 years after North Korea b... by w7 on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @08:02PM (#31021856)

I don't understand your argument.

It seems based on some premise that North Korea is only bad because other nations are "mean" to it.

Many authoritarian regimes have historically used food availability as a weapon against their own populations. North Korea clearly is one such regime.

There is no private enterprise in North Korea-- I don't know what you think lifting of non-food covering sanctions would do other than further strengthening a rogue state that has no intentions of having anything other than a perpetual slave caste.

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Re:US sentences crypto expert to 5 years after North Korea b... by ipaddr on Wednesday April 13, 2022 @08:31PM (#31022039)

That doesn't stop trade with Saudi Arabia so it can't be used here.

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