Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea?
anachrohack@lemmy.world 1 day agoNorth Korea does not allow its own people to leave. The situation is nothing like Gaza, and to claim otherwise is some dipshit 16 year old tankie nonsense
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.
North korea had comparable standards of living to south korea until the late 1980s, mid-1990s. Leaning on the war in the 1950s to explain modern NK is factually wrong. The reason North korea is in such a poor state is because
Their country clings on to a pseudo-scientific economic ideology which has destroyed their country
Their monarchist dictatorship is hell bent on an unsustainable nuclear weapons program and regularly threatens to annihilate their neighbors in a blaze of atomic glory. Hitting them with sanctions is letting them off easy.
If the North Korean government cared about its people (which it doesnt) then they would do 4 things:
End their nuclear ambitions
Implement market reforms to allow the free flow of trade and end centralized planning of their economy
Free all political prisoners and the 3 generations of their family which are considered guilty by association, and end the mass system of concentration camps which they run
The Kim dynasty must step down and allow free and fair elections
None of these things will happen because North korea exists solely to be the personal theme park/prison state for Kim Jong-Un, who does not care an iota for the wellbeing of the North Korean people
The issue as you see it:
clings on to a pseudo-scientific economic ideology
The prescription you suggest:
pseudo-scientific economic ideology
There’s actually tons of research that says that a free market economy is much better at alleviating poverty than a centrally planned economy.
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.
It’s not inconsequential, but to blame the entire state if the country on the bombing campaign of the 1950s is to
Ignore the period that took place between the 1950s and the 1990s
Deprive their government of literally all agency and blame their problems on the United States because it confirms your political biases
Dogyote@slrpnk.net 1 day 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.
anachrohack@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s war for ya
Objection@lemmy.ml 21 hours ago
That’s what you support, yes.
Not sure if you’re more or less of a psychopathic monster for acknowledging it.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 50 minutes ago
North Korea was the one that started the war by invading the South
anachrohack@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Maybe North korea shouldn’t have started that war