Comment on How come nobody does anything about North Korea?
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 days agoThe 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.
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.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
The right to self-determination I suppose didn’t include South Korean who North Korea attacked?
Objection@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
If Koreans wanted the South Korean government, they could’ve fought for it. On their own. Without Americans coming in and dropping bombs and chemicals and slaughtering civilians in pursuit of their own interests, in defense of their propped up comprador regime.
Again, it was an internal matter for Koreans to settle among themselves. I have yet to see you provide any reason for the US to get involved. And even if they did have a valid reason, it certainly doesn’t justify the way they conducted the war.
The only thing close to resembling a justification that you’ve said is “the North attacked first.” But that doesn’t really matter to me. Revolution is inherently aggressive and revolution is not always bad, therefore, being the aggressor doesn’t always make a side bad. But even if I did consider the North to be in the wrong, we’re not the fucking world police. We had no business getting involved there. Why on earth should we send soldiers, ordinary people, to go off and fight and die on a completely different continent just to further the geopolitical influence of the US government, and the billionaires that control it?
Tell me, who were the beneficiaries of our intervention in Korea? Ordinary Koreans? The ones we dropped chemical weapons on even if they weren’t involved in the war? Ordinary Americans? What the hell did we get out of? No, the beneficiaries were the South Korean bourgeoisie and fascist collaborators and the American bourgeoisie, and no one else.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
They did fight for it. North Korea was just much better armed and stronger thanks in large part to USSR’s help. South asked for UN help and got it, much of it provided by the US. And later on China got directly involved.
It doesn’t feel like you’re against getting involved in this type of stuff but specifically angry at the US