Seems like a good time to remind everyone that the Wikipedia article for Curtis LeMay , head of the strategic air command (ie bombing of Korea) during the Korean War, only mentions Korea 1 time and not until in the series of links at the bottom of the page.
And just a highlight of what that actually represents: "We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, some way or another, and some in South Korea, too." Pyongyang, which saw 75 percent of its area destroyed, was so devastated that bombing was halted as there were no longer any worthy targets. By the end of the campaign, US bombers had difficulty in finding targets and were reduced to bombing footbridges or jettisoning their bombs into the sea.
And German nazis call what happened to dresden "bombenholocaust"... :germany-cool:
Bomber Harris fly again.
Those fucks who were in Korea better stay grounded tho :stalin-gun-1:
uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire
in the Blowback episode about Korea in the post-armistice era, they mention how by the 1970s, the DPRK had a higher quality of life for its people than almost all South Koreans, which was still under capitalist military dictatorship and had outrageous sweatshop conditions (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seoul_Peace_Market) as well as ongoing torture/death camps for organizers of work stoppages/slowdowns to improve conditions. the DPRK was very popular with its population while the southern puppet government was continually rocked by crisis. the DPRK was actually sending food aid to the South at this time.
the DPRK had improving economic relations within and outside of the socialist bloc, but after the soviet project collapsed, the US decided (in the same way they did with Cuba) to put the screws to the DPRK with brutal sanctions happening alongside the broader asian market crisis. then the DPRK became part of Bush's politically expedient Axis of Evil.
blowback makes a strong case for how the conditions of the Korean peninsula and relations between the north and south is generally a product of whatever insane domestic political project is going on in washington d.c. like the Korean War itself coinciding with the second red scare.
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god the stupid fucking piglet is like "yeah but that was a long time ago [literally still in living memory of people in korea and america]"
like part of it is americans don't know history, but another part is that they're deeply averse to learning history or thinking history matters
they do similar shit with civil rights for black americans. "slavery and segregation were a long time ago." my mother has memories of being a little girl and black people in her town having to go to the theater through the back, i'm sure that kind of social situation and its consequences just magical evaporated into perfect equality over night.
Ruby Bridges is still alive and the shitstains who threw rocks at her are trying very hard to make it illegal to tell their grandkids about that.
"I would simply recover from a massive war while undergoing a brutal sanctions regime that's lasted for 70 years"
America might be able to do that simply because it is one of the largest, most resource rich, and most agriculturally productive nations to have ever existed. A tiny peninsula with some good farming and resources? Put the American people there and they would die.
