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Turns out South Korea was a brutal military dictatorship under the backing of the US way longer than you'd think
USA and brutal dictatorships, name a more iconic duo!
Russia and brutal dictatorships? They're both up there
Lets just say “superpowers and brutal dictatorships”.
Whoevers dominating in a period in history generally didn’t get there by advocating for peace and self determination.
North Korea and brutal dictatorship
The Kims never killed 30 thousand people in a few days
The Kims did starve to death a magnitude more over a handful of years.
People always say this to but I don't think it's even true, or misrepresents greatly the situation.
North Korea was the better place to live until the collapse of the USSR and mid-90s famine. That's not up for debate. Their living standard and quality of life were overall much higher than ROK thanks to Russian subsidies.
North Korea has far less farmland than the ROK, which has many more river valleys and warmer latitudes. North Korea also lacks trading partners due to sanctions, while ROK currently imports around 80 percent of its food.
The US and ROK time their military drills specifically to fuck with DPRK's planting and harvesting seasons, forcing them to divert manpower to defense positions when they need able-bodied men to be on farms.
Given these three points, I think North Korean hunger is almost entirely due to the US and its policies. But nobody likes to hear that the Kims might not be horrible monsters
imagine simping for NK like this lol.
Why don't you directly address my points instead?
Why it's NK. Enough said
OK so you will just rely on thought-terminating cliché to go through life. Nice
How many regimes did NK install themselves?
Democracy has been a relatively recent form of government in the grand scheme of things.
The way the US has been acting, they never seemed to think that democracy is a good form of government, either.
The Ancient Greeks would like several words.