My co-worker believes the DPRK is a uniquely evil and incompetent state that is in a constant state of famine. They are the most failed and corrupt state.
I told him that DPRK has been incredibly fucked over historically and has been punished on every front for the crime of existing.
Does anyone have any good info I can arm myself with? Or help at articulating something that might get through. He's very much a 'facts and logic' type of lib.
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What has dprk done to earn such sanctions? Bomb? Is israel sanctioned? Treating
their own people(allegedly) badly? How come pinochet chile wasn’t sanctioned (or saudi arabia)? If they are sanctioned unfairly, imagine what such sanctions would do to other small nation (take something (re:food availability in 90s, crop failures happen randomly, and are compensated by world size, if you can trade)and sometimes with maybe a little help from uncle Sam, allegedly
Saudi arabia requires some finagling around “own people” with dogshit working conditions of asian workers, who are not technically citizens, but liberals don’t require much convincing around that point, unless they also hate immigrants in usa