Point being (I believe), it is expensive to take a moral position. It costs you money and thoughtful action. You could secure the South Korean border without landmines. It just would cost a lot more money.

You could do a lot of other things (or rather not do them), but it might cost you your political standing.

So point being - playing the moral high card, as the US do around the world, should not follow the line from a Genesis song:

"Do as I say, don't do as I do..."

At least in my humble opinion (the same goes for my Governement, the German one by the way.)

>"Do as I say, don't do as I do..."

Does the US gov't say that everyone else should abandon land mines?

The US Government isn't a monolithic entity that has a singular opinion.

The point being whatever you want to make of the similarities in the human rights records between the US and North Korea.

Perhaps you think what North Korea does is the proper way to interact with the world, perhaps you think that the US should be the moral lead for countries like the Sudan, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Afganistan, and Croatia instead of the moral follower.