https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3031514/kim-... North Korea recruits young foreign women to be celebrities and they end up murdering an influential man. In the US, young foreign women are recruited to be models and they end being murdered by an influential man. Based on this limited set of information, yes, North Korea is more moral than the US. There are procedural changes that could be done, monthly stories on scams preying on young women in the news media, organizations or such that directly deal with foreign workers, etc. There could even be a cottage industry, with think tanks proposing ideas for new bureaucracies to protect and oversee marginalized groups... Still, no bureaucrat directly rationalizes "how can I be cruel to someone today", but the cruellest decisions are the result of bureaucrats not actually meeting the people they authorize various actions towards. It is not unthinkable a small army of bureaucrats in Malaysia thought this would yield something:
Another time, one of them told me that if I didn’t plead guilty, North Korea would bomb my home country. I didn’t know whether to believe it or not.