Okay, so this entire thing is like a really bad series of episodes of Dragonball Z that have North Korea charging an attack so pitiful that even Krillin would laugh.
I admittedly know next to nothing (okay, 100% nothing) of politics or whatever game this sword rattling is attempting to accomplish, but with good olâ conjecture, I found an explanation that satisfied me, at least.
Iâm guessing that KJU inherited a shit hole of a country with a lot of people in it that are very, very unhappy. With him being the target of an assassination attemptI feel like thatâs a pretty good thing to assume (again this is all conjecture, so please feel free to correct me). North Korea is a wreck, a mess, itâs terrible there. At this point, I think if any one person of power wanted to fix that country, itâd be impossible, short of a global multi-national effort being put forward.
Basically, starting a war and getting taken seriously will get North Korea invaded, essentially forcing the rest of the world to deal with the entire situation of that disaster of a country so KJU doesnât have to, and meanwhile he has his people unified in a war effort will force a lid on the internal unrest that threatens his life.
It makes sense to me, and itâs all I can possibly think of to explain it. KJU has studied abroad, he knows his military force will get eradicated extremely easily, heâs seen what the world has and what NK does not.
Would you agree taht the current severity of the economic situation in that shit country is due to the international sanctions imposed the U.S??
Im not implying or stating that N. Korea has no fault in this (WTF does America care what happens overseas TBH), but, is part of the blame on the hands of the American government.
N. Korea was doing alright (as good as any psuedo commie country), before it was slapped with all these huge sanctions by the west though.
Iâm sure the sanctions havenât helped their economy, but that was kind of the point. A sanction is supposed to be a punishment.
In addition, sanctions only matter as far as other countries are willing to honor them. So I donât think itâs really fair to pin the blame on the US.
America cares about what happens overseas because we donât live in the 1800s anymore. Technology has forced us all to live in a world of globalization. Virtually all countries make international decisions based on the global context.
Define âalrightâ. North Korea has a pretty extensive list of human rights violations. I personally find it appalling that the international community (namely the UN) has allowed it to go on this long.
Their economic system was already in peril way before we began imposing sanctions against them. Thatâs like saying weâre to blame for the death of a terminally ill cancer patient by giving him pneumonia near the end of his life.
If the US says eat shit to most countries, most countries will do without hesitation.
HOwever, I though I made it clear when I said that N. Korea had its hand in the jar also.
Iâm not touching this one, I just stated a little snippet and this isnât the time nor place to discuss this.
Better than its doing now, way better. At least pre-2005 we didnât have reports of parents killing their kids for foods. Which is why I said current situation, and why I said that im not trying to imply that N.Korea canât be blamed, or that blamed should be shifted all the way to the U.S.
But its only gotten worse, and thatâs what Im asking. Can the current policy employed by the American government with regards to the North, be linked to the severe situation in N. Korea. Its gotten so bad in N.Korea, that its threatening the most powerful nation on the planet with nuclear weapons.
N. Korea went from bad (hence decent for a psuedo commie country where traditionally things arenât so great) to beyond imaginably terrible that the only solution now is nuclear suicide.
No, honestly, I donât think so. Even if the Axis of Evil speech didnât prompt Kim Jong-il to go apeshit with nukes, his military first policy was already dragging down the economy to the point that normal people were starving to death. If it wasnât nuclear testing, it wouldâve been something else. To top it off, Kim Jong-il made many decisions that has virtually destroyed every piece of arable land in North Korea, something that may take a decade to reverse if itâs even reversible at this point.
No matter what man, whether the economic sanctions were in place or not, the same would be happening. If the economic sanctions were lifted, all that would do to North Korea would be that it would give the Kim regime more money to spend on bolstering their military and to spend on Johnnie Walker and cigarettes and gourmet food for Kim Jumbo-un.
Let me also add this: A lot of the defectors I know were in China BEFORE 2001. That means their life was so dire at that point that they had no choice but to get out WAY BEFORE we began sanctioning North Korea severely. One I know left she was 7, and she was born in 89.
Given how corrupt and ineffectual the UN is, Iâm not surprised itâs gone on as long as it has. They never, ever make any decisions or by the time they finally do, itâs too late to do anything.