Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea?
napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 4 days agoI fully agree that a lot of the shittalk about them is exaggerated and ill-informed. They don’t execute people for having wrong haircut (dyeing can get you into some trouble), no, I do not believe that.
People live there. It’s certainly not nationwide Auschwitz as you might think.
But they also execute/punish people(and their family members) for trying to leave the country for good or talk shit about their supreme leader. I don’t know you but if that’s not a red flag I seriously don’t know what is.
They execute generals all the time, then the generals appear alive a few months later. That’s that mystical Juche necromancy for ya.
Can’t get all the shit right, yes. Doesn’t make their countless crimes-against-humanity testimonies and proofs any less valid.
But I’m very sure that you are going to say all the defectors and reporters are liars and parrot all the wild cringe tankie shit that no less than 14 should you have outgrown and that’s fine. You do you. I hope someday you can make a personal visit to North Korea and leave the horrific, capitalistic hellhole of a society the West is.
jerkface@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
If you are an American, eat what’s on your plate before you worry about NK.
napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I’m Korean.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
jerkface@lemmy.ca 3 days ago
It’s not a tu quoque when NK isn’t hurting anyone and the Americans are burning down the fucking planet.
pishadoot@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
NK is one of the most exceptionally successful aggressors in cyber crime. They perform heists in the 10s or 100s of millions of USD at a time, about 2 billion in the past two years. Their targets are global and indiscriminate, and their scope and skill set is growing at an alarming pace.
If it helps you sleep better at night that they’re only physically terrible to their local neighborhood, then whatever - I would argue that their reach is only limited by their lack of wealth, but that still has a radius that can reach nations as far away as Japan and they constantly threaten them, and would do so to others if they had the means, but again, if that doesn’t bother you then ok I guess.
But to say that they don’t affect anyone outside their borders is at best ignorance and at worst willful misinformation.
napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Calling it a distraction when they literally harm our people and bomb our land. Thanks.