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> But in similar vein the West would prefer both rulers to spend more time working for their citizens’ economic wellbeing than on militaristic projects.

Is there evidence of that?

Suppose for a minute that the NK regime was not crazy and only tried to pursue Communism. Then they would be similar to all the other Socialist/Communist states that the West wants to fail so that it can point to them and say that Socialism/Communism doesn’t work.