just kidding the USA is not a country

    • vsaush [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Sure, "The United States and biological warfare" by Stephen Lyon Endicott is a decent book that covers, for example, the US use of germ warfare during the Korean War. One of the generals admitted to using it, the DPRK soldiers used that admittance as a broadcast, and the US subsequently denied it and claimed any POWs that bore eye witness were in fact just indoctrinated and brainwashed. The amount of bombs dropped on the north was also completely unwarranted as well as targets (complete indiscriminate bombing of every building, not just military targets). The US also mixed in phosphorus as a prototype of future use of napalm in Vietnam, in fact some claims of glowing graveyards in the DPRK are justified by the amount of phosphorus used - they wouldn't glow forever but during and immediately after it would make sense. The No Gun Ri massacre was another much more well known and publicized war crime.

      Then to top it off, the US created reports like this that read more like a gish gallop of the DPRK before they could bring evidence to the UN. In particular is section V that includes the claims that American POWs were brainwashed.

      And I don't know if there's a book that links this, but the Korean War armistice was in 53 and MKULTRA was sanctioned the exact same year. The way the events are laid out chronologically - it seems like they had some spin guys invent forced brainwashing and then immediately try to make it real and see if they could do it.

      • ElGosso [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Didn't America level 75% of all buildings in North Korea? I remember reading that but I'm too lazy to look it up myself