• WraithGear@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    There probably a little more fire for this because the USA is directly responsible for the genocide. As a matter of fact if we did nothing the world would be a better place, and even better if we did something else.

    I don’t recall the human rights abuses in North Korea being a direct result of us intervention.

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      5 days ago

      that’s pretty much a history of the world though.

      Everything happens because someone somewhere did something, and sometimes it’s bad, sometimes it’s good. The US does have a lot of questionable involvement in other countries historically, but so does every other large country, like china, and russia. So i’m not sure how unique that is.

      I mean hell, look at japanese history during the second world war.

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      6 days ago

      I don’t recall the human rights abuses in North Korea being a direct result of us intervention.

      I wouldn’t say that the US had nothing to do with it, though. The Korean Civil War was brutal for the south, but it was even more so for the north.

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        5 days ago

        the US was involved but i think strictly in support of the south korean side?

        From what i can remember it was basically japan that ended up putting korea into the position where was to form north korea.

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          5 days ago

          I was talking about the US leveling 95% of the buildings in what is now the DPRK. That put the North at a pretty big disadvantage economically, and hard economic times often lead to despots.

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            5 days ago

            this would’ve been due to the japanese invasion though right?

            Even then, still doesnt excuse human rights violations, to the level that NK does.

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                5 days ago

                i mean yeah, but if we’re going to root cause, it would necessarily be japan im certain. They were the ones invading china/korea at the time. The US wasn’t even involved until the end of the war.