I believe the world has an obligation to do what it can to make life better for these people. How can we go about that? My understanding is that the people of NK are frequently hungry - often on the verge of starving. We should try to work with the government of NK to ease these conditions - maybe ship food into NK and insure that it is distributed to the people. We may also be able to offer the government incentives to grant some freedom and improve the living conditions of its people. Incentive like beneficial trade deals, sharing technology, etc. Of course, we consider the government dangerous, so we have to be careful about what capabilities we give them.

I doubt we have the capacity to save the people of NK. I doubt that invading NK or dropping bombs on it is likely to save the people.

We should help the people as much as we can. We should exercise great care that we don’t make their condition worse. We also have to be aware of any potential consequences our actions may have for people other than the citizens of NK - e.g. NK may well have the capability of killing large numbers of South Koreans very quickly if it is under attack..

That's already why the people are starving. Their leadership spends virtually all of their GDP on developing weapons to threaten their neighbors with.

That was before NK had a nuclear weapon, and, presumably, had the Republican congress agreed to the details, and Bush respected the deal, NK would not have a nuclear weapon today. So, history shows us that we can negotiate with NK and reach agreement with respect to weapons development and make real progress toward a peaceful resolution of our disagreements.

There should be a universal standard of human rights: free speech, equality of sexes, no discrimination on the basis of race or religion, etc, humane treatment at all times, even for the imprisoned and even during war.

Enforcing it is another issue.