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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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
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
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- SinAdjetivos@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  - anachrohack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    There’s actually tons of research that says that a free market economy is much better at alleviating poverty than a centrally planned economy.
    
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- Krono@lemmy.today ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  - anachrohack@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    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
    
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    Dogyote@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    but to blame the entire state if the country on the bombing campaign of the 1950s is to…
    
    Nobody said that.
    
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