Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea?

• Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You’re acting like North Korea and South Korea existed as separate, established entities prior to the Korean War. That’s nonsense. It’s projecting the modern state of affairs back into the past. The Korean War is when those entities were established as such. The were communists and anti-communists distributed throughout the whole of Korea, and neither side was interested in setting up a partition that would carve the country in two, until a compromised was negotiated effectively ending the war.

  The Republic of Korea had governed the whole of the country, and the leadership was made up of compradors who had been propped up by fascist Japanese invaders and who had switched teams to being running dogs of the US as soon as it became convenient. The revolutionaries rose up against them, first attacking in the north and establishing a foothold before moving south. At this point, the US, seeking to assert dominance over a country thousands of miles away, intervened with one of the deadliest bombing campaigns in history, with an extremely high ratio of civilian deaths, many killed by biological and chemical weapons.

  Even if the US hadn’t been so brutal towards Korean civilians, it still had no business getting involved. This whole argument of “defensive” wars thousands of miles away is nonsense. It’s the same argument the fucking Roman Empire used to justify conquering Europe:

  There was no corner of the known world where some interest was not alleged to be in danger or under actual attack. If the interests were not Roman, they were those of Rome’s allies; and if Rome had no allies, then allies would be invented. When it was utterly impossible to contrive such an interest—why, then it was the national honor that had been insulted. The fight was always invested with an aura of legality. Rome was always being attacked by evil-minded neighbors, always fighting for a breathing space. The whole world was pervaded by a host of enemies, and it was manifestly Rome’s duty to guard against their indubitably aggressive designs. They were enemies who only waited to fall on the Roman people.

  -Joseph Schumpeter

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  • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The peninsula had been divided since 1945 and they had their separate governments since 1948. Korean War started with the North attacking the South in 1950.

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    • Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Again, neither side saw the partition as a permanent solution, both claimed the entire peninsula. The decision to partition the country was not made by Koreans, but by negotiations between the US and USSR. Koreans have a right to self determination, which includes not having to accept a foreign-imposed partition of their country. The US has absolutely getting involved in an internal conflict, it was pure imperialism.

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      • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The right to self-determination I suppose didn’t include South Korean who North Korea attacked?

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