“North Korea has long supported Palestinian militant groups, and North Korean arms have previously been documented amongst interdicted supplies,” Jenzen-Jones told the AP.

  • ClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    If true, dope. Seems like the kind of thing they’d make up to throw in another Official Enemy™ though. Were Al Qaeda, Cuba, and Venezuela also supplying them with weapons?

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      1 year ago

      Was NK ever not an official enemy?

      This feels more like Greatest Hits Enemies. Fully waiting for them to claim the Barbary Pirates were in on it, too.

    • GriffithDidNothingWrong [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, likely just more "Axis of Evil™️" bullshit. Hamas has much easier and more accessible places to get weapons from, and I wouldn't take South Korea's word for something like this

      • AssortedBiscuits [they/them]
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        1 year ago

        The DPRK gave a bunch of weapons to China, who gave a bunch of weapons to Iran, who gave a bunch of weapons to Hezbollah, who gave a bunch of weapons to Hamas, so by the transitive property, the DPRK gave a bunch of weapons to Hamas.

    • VHS [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Weren't DPRK-made RPG warheads seen in action a couple weeks ago? I'm not sure what the chain of custody is like, but I wasn't previously aware that their weapons were in circulation like old Soviet or Chinese stock

  • Alch_Fox
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    1 year ago

    deleted by creator

    • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      My fairly lib friend has been visibly radicalized since western governments started joyfully supporting a Palestinian genocide. I mentioned the other day maybe those ravers shouldn't have been partying a mile outside of Auschwitz and got zero push back.

        • Orcocracy [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          Yeah, that was what GW Bush called the "Axis of Evil", blending the Axis from WWII with Reagan's description of the USSR as the "Evil Empire". It was a 2000s-era remix of 20th century greatest hits to make the US public support more war. Even back then when the US empire was at the height of its unipolar power it was running on nostalgic fumes of past glories.

  • wombat [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire

  • Lerios [hy/hym]
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    1 year ago

    my support of the dprk is no longer critical. and ngl i'm starting to think that that realisation should have happened a long time ago kim-salute

  • CommCat [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    No wonder there as a video on RT (odysee) with pro-Palestinian protestors holding up giant posters of Putin and Kim. Putin I can understand, but the DPRK doesn't exactly have much geopolitical influence. Makes sense now. The Resistance from all corners should unite against Imperialism.

    • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
      hexagon
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      1 year ago

      For real, DPRK is one of the only countries that flatly rejects a two state solution.

      Show

    • Kaplya
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      1 year ago

      You need to listen to this song to understand the Palestinian view of the geopolitics today (someone posted it in the megathread yesterday). Every key players are mentioned there: Russia, Ukraine, US, Israel, China, DPRK, Iran, Syria etc.

      • PortugueseDragon [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        The chorus of that song is not good with the reference to banishing Ukrainians and marrying Ukrainian women but the rest of it is a pretty good geopolitical song from the perspective of Palestine.

    • dead [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      This past week, some Russian officials met with Kim Jong Un for negotiations. The Russian official were Sergei Lavrov, Andrei Rudenko, and Alexandr Matsegora.

      "(Kim Jong Un) expressed the steadfast stand of the WPK and the DPRK government to work out a stable, forward-looking, far-reaching plan for the DPRK-Russia relations in the new era by faithfully implementing the agreements made at the DPRK-Russia summit, and to promote the well-being of the peoples of the two countries and push forward with the cause of building a powerful state by dint of the said plan."

      http://kcna.kp/en/article/q/c10d24db95498f4c0b1f705ba7ce05c5.kcmsf

      KCNA.kp is a news agency owned by DPRK and hosted in Pyongyang.

    • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      To use on what? It's their homes that their enemies are occupying.

      I guess a few on antiship missiles to sink US aircraft carriers couldn't hurt.

  • Guillotine_Erotica [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    In Europe, local districts is encouraged to project Israeli flags on town halls, Google and Meta just pulled our of the web summit due to an organizer saying that "war crimes are war crimes, even if they are committed by an allies".

    The propaganda is so thick you can taste the blood.

    I wonder how many people really see through it or disagrees

  • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Beware! The men of the East fight with cursed swords of black steel wrought in the very fires of Mordor!

    • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Obligatory point out that in other middle earth material its shown that Men of the East aren't just inherently evil. They were colonized by Numenoreans who worshipped Morgoth, that's why Aragorn let's them free after they fix up some walls they busted and stuff. It's also pretty likely that it was lparticular easterlings and sauthrons from certain states in the region, not like a total takeover.

  • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Fuckin' sick

    Except that the liberal press might be trying to drum up a Korea War 2 support . . .