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While foreign powers, particularly the United States, have a history of interfering with other nations’ governments, North Korea’s specific environment and strategic military resources mitigate such efforts. The nation’s nuclear capabilities and extensive conventional military forces deter external intervention. Any indication of Western plots to overthrow Kim could result in catastrophic military responses, which makes foreign attempts to instigate change exceedingly precarious.
Furthermore, the culture of fear cultivated by the regime is compounded by the three-generation rule, whereby the punishment for one member's dissent extends to their family, limiting citizens' willingness to engage in anti-regime actions.