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America already tried to save the North Koreans once. It was called the “Korean War”.

We bombed them back to the stone age, then permanently isolated them from most of the world. Despite having good reasons for the start of the war, America treated NK like Israel currently treats Gaza.

Even if North Koreans tried to forget that America bombed every hospital, every water purification plant, all the electricity production, etc; the Kim regime’s propaganda will make sure they never forget.

If we actually wanted to help those people, the first step would be removal of economic sanctions. There is no clean way to remove dictatorship, but the “Arab Spring” model is much more effective and humane than the “Afghanistan War” model.

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kelpie_returns@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Til that i don’t know enough about the Korean War. Jfc

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- ragingHungryPanda@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Ohhhhh it’s so much worse. Here’s the intro to the BlowBack podcast S3, which is all about the Korean War open.spotify.com/episode/4ZX1YIvtHhxuoOTaH41VNC
  
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  - kelpie_returns@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Very informative listen so far. Thanks for sharing
    
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anachrohack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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- Dogyote@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  If you read the previous comment more closely you’ll realize that the commentor wasn’t comparing today’s NK to Gaza, but Korea during the Korean War to Gaza. That is a reasonable comparison, as nearly every standing structure was bombed.
  
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  - anachrohack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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    Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    That’s what you support, yes.
    
    Not sure if you’re more or less of a psychopathic monster for acknowledging it.
    
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- Krono@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  You have obviously misunderstood me.
  
  I was comparing the United States actions in the Korean War(1950s) to Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. The mass civilian bombing campaigns, complete destruction of civilian infrastructure, manmade famine, widespread preventable disease, and imposed economic isolation are very similar between the two cases.
  
  I am not comparing current-day North Korea to current-day Gaza, and I agree with you that would not be a good analogy.
  
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  - anachrohack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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    Krono@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    So your thesis is that the 1950s war was inconsequential, and then you lay the entire blame on the Kim regime and their policies?
    
    My dude, how do you think the Kim regime became a dictatorship?
    
    Before the 1950s war, Kim was a weak puppet leader propped up by the Soviet Union. By the end of the war, the Kim regime had dictatorial power, which persists to this day.
    
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    SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    The issue as you see it:
    
    clings on to a pseudo-scientific economic ideology
    
    The prescription you suggest:
    
    pseudo-scientific economic ideology
    
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BrainInABox@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

the Kim regime’s propaganda will make sure they never forget.

It’s the peak of chauvinism to think people would need propaganda to remember you leveling their entire country.

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- Krono@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yes I agree.
  
  If you use context instead of cherry picking a half-sentence then maybe you would understand that is part of the broader point I am trying to get across to a western, chauvinism-brained audience.
  
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