{"id":11692,"date":"2011-12-22T23:12:48","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T23:12:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-12-22T23:12:48","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T23:12:48","slug":"North-Korean-strategy-starting-points-for-successful-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=11692","title":{"rendered":"North Korean strategy: starting points for successful change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve described a system where when all actors act in their interests, everybody loses, except perhaps a few dozen decision-makers in North Korea. I&#8217;ve described what I think won&#8217;t substantively change the situation in North Korea. Yesterday I wrote about <a href=\"http:\/\/joshuaspodek.com\/north-korean-strategy-wont-change-things\">what wouldn&#8217;t change things<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the greatest lessons I learned in business school applies here, as well as to all so-called moral problems:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If the system leads to only undesired outcomes, change the system.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Changing a system rarely happens by changing one part of it unless the system depends on that part. To understand systems, I know of no better resource than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chelseagreen.com\/bookstore\/item\/thinking_in_systems:paperback\">Thinking in Systems<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Donella_Meadows\">Donella Meadows<\/a>, which I recommend reading. For thoughts on how to change systems, I recommend her essay <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twelve_leverage_points\">Twelve Leverage Points<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainabilityinstitute.org\/pubs\/Leverage_Points.pdf\">pdf<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The points I see leverage are<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/joshuaspodek.com\/north-korean-strategy-china\">China&#8217;s support for North Korea<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/joshuaspodek.com\/north-korean-strategy-reducing-ris\">Reducing the risk to North Korean leaders of political change<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/joshuaspodek.com\/north-korean-strategy-increasing\">Increasing interaction<\/a> between the outside world and North Korean citizens and organizations &#8212; mainly through trade, tourism, sports, academia, and arts<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/joshuaspodek.com\/north-korea-strategy-reducing\">Reducing domestic support<\/a> for the North Korean regime by giving alternative sources of history to North Korean people to the government, minimizing threats to North Korean decision-makers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t put military options on the list because the missiles North Korea points toward South Korea could reach tens of millions of people and major economic areas within minutes. As I wrote before, <a href=\"http:\/\/joshuaspodek.com\/north-korea-strategy-players-motives\">North Korea effectively holds South Korea and Japan hostage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to add to the list. If you have ideas, please share. In the meantime, I&#8217;ll post on the above points of leverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve described a system where when all actors act in their interests, everybody loses, except perhaps a few dozen decision-makers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3442,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"randalwfhnapifzecroc","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b9bbe0d5419ed1301488f7790d59766f31160ba1d73ace6c537ff0e9a08c5f56?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"I&#8217;ve described a system where when all actors act in their interests, everybody loses, except perhaps a few dozen decision-makers","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["News"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":130,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"randalwfhnapifzecroc","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=3442"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b9bbe0d5419ed1301488f7790d59766f31160ba1d73ace6c537ff0e9a08c5f56?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1\">News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3442"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}