Just one about the DPRK... liberals have no clue what the DPRK has gone through over the last 100 years. First the brutal occupation by the Japanese. Then the Korean War. I swear the only thing Americans know about that war is about a stupid 80s comedy set in it. The reality is, we killed 20-25% of their population. We practically levelled every building and destroyed just an unbelievable amount of crops. Their productive capacity was destroyed. Then further, they have to live with decades of constant military pressure from the US. The moment they let up, the US will invade. Then decades of sanctions. You have all that going on, what kind of country do you think will evolve in that environment? If aliens came and slaughtered like 75 million Americans, destroyed every factory and warehouse, wrecked a bunch of crops... and on top of that, threatened to invade again to finish the job at any moment... don't you think we might be a little "different"?
None of this is a defence of juche, DPRK communism, the Kims, etc... it's just meant to give some important context to Americans who know fuck all about the Korean War.
Right, I've found that if you start to even suggest that maybe the DPRK is even a little good, Americans just shut down entirely won't listen to anything else you have to say. But actually tell them about the horrible shit we did to them... then I've found people are just so shocked to learn that, after they've thought about it they're at least a little more open to hearing more.
I know Jacobin can be really liberal, but this article is great for describing how the US absolutely devastated the DPRK. "In other words, US-led forces just about did to North Korea what war and the Holocaust had done to Poland."
Just one about the DPRK... liberals have no clue what the DPRK has gone through over the last 100 years. First the brutal occupation by the Japanese. Then the Korean War. I swear the only thing Americans know about that war is about a stupid 80s comedy set in it. The reality is, we killed 20-25% of their population. We practically levelled every building and destroyed just an unbelievable amount of crops. Their productive capacity was destroyed. Then further, they have to live with decades of constant military pressure from the US. The moment they let up, the US will invade. Then decades of sanctions. You have all that going on, what kind of country do you think will evolve in that environment? If aliens came and slaughtered like 75 million Americans, destroyed every factory and warehouse, wrecked a bunch of crops... and on top of that, threatened to invade again to finish the job at any moment... don't you think we might be a little "different"?
None of this is a defence of juche, DPRK communism, the Kims, etc... it's just meant to give some important context to Americans who know fuck all about the Korean War.
deleted by creator
Right, I've found that if you start to even suggest that maybe the DPRK is even a little good, Americans just shut down entirely won't listen to anything else you have to say. But actually tell them about the horrible shit we did to them... then I've found people are just so shocked to learn that, after they've thought about it they're at least a little more open to hearing more.
deleted by creator
I know Jacobin can be really liberal, but this article is great for describing how the US absolutely devastated the DPRK. "In other words, US-led forces just about did to North Korea what war and the Holocaust had done to Poland."
deleted by creator