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[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 74 points 1 month ago

i can only hope that the people of DPRK receive even an ounce of a crumb of justice for the decades long smearing that the entire west gleefully takes part in.

[–] Sinisterium@hexbear.net 70 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A lot of the people that died in the nuclear attacks on japan were korean labourers forced from their homelands.

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 68 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Up to 100,000 and they were basically slaves.

Now that I think about it, it's gruesome that the US keeps going on about how evil the DPRK is. Even if all the propaganda was true, they would've killed a fraction of the number of Koreans killed by the US.

[–] Sinisterium@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago

The US caused more dead koreans than dead japanese and technically the koreans were allies of the us lol

[–] MF_COOM@hexbear.net 61 points 1 month ago

If anyone's learning this for the first time trump-who-must-go, that's 20% of North Koreans.

Based on how insane the US went for 20 years after 0.001% of their population died on 9/11, it's not hard to explain any genuinely true funny stuff about DPRK.

[–] Andrzej3K@hexbear.net 49 points 1 month ago (1 children)

North Korea is a post-apocalyptic society, and by those standards they've done remarkably well for themselves imo.

Imagine if some foreign power killed 20% of the US population and turned literally every settlement and piece of infrastructure to rubble. It would be Mad Max

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago

More importantly, imagine if after doing that the US was completely blocked off from world trade except for, like, Mexico and Brazil.

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 48 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People don't deep it enough. Thats 20% wiped out. Infrastructure destroyed to an extreme degree. Thats barbarism

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

80% of buildings north of the 38th parallel were flattened. Curtis Lemay famously reported that they had to stop bombing because they ran out of targets (military or otherwise). The North had resorted to moving their whole society underground, and in many of the population centers that had been targeted by US attacks the only remaining people who needed to hold the terrain were literally living in caves and surviving off of scraps.

[–] vegeta1@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Absurd. And didn't they want to nuke China to get the victory in the Korean war aswell? Korea may damn well have been nuked with that ordinance they got hit with

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

MacArthur wanted to nuke China and to irradiate the DPRK-China border to prevent crossing it.

Of all the campaigns of my life, 20 major ones to be exact, [Korea was] the one I felt most sure of was the one I was deprived of waging. I could have won the war in Korea in a maximum of 10 days.... I would have dropped between 30 and 50 atomic bombs on his air bases and other depots strung across the neck of Manchuria.... It was my plan as our amphibious forces moved south to spread behind us—from the Sea of Japan to the Yellow Sea—a belt of radioactive cobalt. It could have been spread from wagons, carts, trucks and planes.... For at least 60 years there could have been no land invasion of Korea from the north. The enemy could not have marched across that radiated belt.

Yeah, outside of radiation, the effects were the same as carpet nuke bombing, plus inconcievable amounts of unexploded ordnance that killed way more people than radiation did in Japan, and all kinds of other primary and secondary destruction consequences happening when you literally flaten a country into the ground.

[–] supafuzz@hexbear.net 40 points 1 month ago

I send libs the Korean War season of Blowback to blackpill them on America. It has worked pretty well on the ones who actually took the time to listen to it.

[–] sammer510@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ask a lib if they know what happened on Jeju Island and they will only know the name from watching Squid Games

[–] Alisu@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Then the lib starts talking about solo leveling

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Note that in almost every single manhwa North Korea is either completely absent from narration or getting killed offscreen.

[–] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've said before and I'll say it again: all attempts at "legitimate" criticism levied at the DPRK by Western entities are akin to beating a dog within an inch of its life, keeping it trapped in a cage for years, and then mocking it for moving with a limp.

[–] wombat@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago

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

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 16 points 1 month ago

It's a miracle they saved 80% of the population tbh since essentially all of their infrastructure and buildings were destroyed