After all this I am not really bothered by juche gang posts, whether ironic or not, like damn. South Korea was just indefinitely worse than North Korea, it was like a fucking totalitarian state. It wasn’t until the 80s that the economic situation reversed. I mean I don’t think anyone should support the current regime but when you learn that more bombs were dropped on North Korea per capita than anywhere else in the world, ever, it becomes understandable why they’re seen as a backwards country with no development. The country was literally flattened by US bombing campaigns. And then you learn that Kim il sung gave rights to women while Rhee was murdering suspected communists by the thousands. The US was committing atrocities like No Gun Ri and yet in the common image America and South Korea are the good guys. I mean, fuck, I don’t think I can support the direction that Kim Jong un has taken North Korea in, but after learning this it solidifies my anti American views, there is officially no war after WW2 that America was justified in. I can’t believe that anti Korean War sentiment isn’t as high as anti Vietnam war, more people need to know about this
Yeah, we did some cool shit during the war. Ever heard of the siege of Detroit? Canadian forces under Isaac brock and indigenous forces under Tecumseh set up fortifications around Detroit. Then they marched around the fort in the day, switching coats inside out to appear like there were way more troops than there were. At night indigenous forces did war whoops to scare the Americans who were terrified of native Americans. Brock sent a letter to the general inside the fort saying if the fort was taken he wouldn’t be able to stop the native Americans from slaughtering them all. Of course it was completely a bluff. In the day as soon as the cannons started firing America surrendered. I always laugh about that because it’s fucking hilarious that Americans shit themselves at the prospect of having to fight native Americans, and surprisingly this story really happened. Of course our treatment of indigenous people following the war and up to today is still horrific, but for a brief period in 1812 the British, Canadians and native Americans teamed up and whooped America’s ass several times.