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I don't understand why all this urge in the "west" to change the north korea ? Not only that you believe all the western propaganda against NK but you have no d

I don't understand why all this urge in the "west" to change the north korea ? Not only that you believe all the western propaganda against NK but you have no doubts that you definitely know whats better and best for NK. Yes, you have no doubts that the west should rob them like they did with Irak and "set them free" and give them the shitty innefective democracy which strangely works only to make the western rich richer and the rest rich enough to not die.Why doesn't the west mind his damn business ? Why this arrogance that you know what others had to do ? If the US/Europe is a paradise, why are the poverty/corruption/unhappiness levels so high ? Why are u still in denial about what's really going on home but u have no doubts about whats really going on in NK and China ? This is some incomplete and not structured rant but still i make a case that the west and it's cool kids are arrogant, doubtless and biased like hell and work involuntarily to fulfill their invisible master's plan (again and forever ?).

middus 15y ago
I guess you're trolling, but anyway. All politics aside, the people in NK are hungry. Hungry as in "I don't have anything to eat". There's no doubt about the fact that the Western World managed to get this right.
- ocdprogrammer 15y ago
  I'm not trolling. Even if the people in NK are hungry (but they are not more hungry then the poor in the west), this does not give you the right to "save" them and take their little left posesions in the process, because you know, US never saved anyone without the army taking ground. If you see a poor man hungry on the street and you give him food, that's "saving him" but if you take his home and take his belongings because you can "manage" them better than him and if you force him to work for you, that's not "saving" him. That's slavery hidden in the form of charity. Isn't it strange that US goverment never saves the real poor of the world (saharian africans - they leave their salvation to red cross and independent charity) instead somehow US gov. always finds some richer "poors" and if they can't be "saved" by corruption and bribery, they are "saved" by armed invasion?
pyre 15y ago
> I don't understand why all this urge in the "west" to > change the north korea Going in and 'freeing' a country is never as simply as it seems. That said, North Korea is not in a very good situation currently. There is a very real temptation to 'swoop in' and 'save' them. The idea being that rather than waiting for (possibly) decades for change to happen (and all of the suffering along the way), we could instantly change things for the better. The problem is that this drastic change is tantamount to revolution, and revolutions are never easy or clean. Assume for a second that the US was perfect, and we could somehow attempt to impart this to the North Koreans. The population of North Korea has under gone over a decade of anti-US/anti-West propaganda. A not-inconsequential number of these people are going to violently resist US/Western involvement in North Korea. Even if we were able to produce irrefutable proof that all of the propaganda was a lie, there would be enough people that would violently refuse to believe even the truth that was right in front of them to produce significant turmoil.
- ocdprogrammer 15y ago
  The US can't save themselves. US never saved anyone, they only changed regimes and took huge economic advantages from the chaos it generously created (include here the "saved" europe). US government + their corporate backers does not care about their own citizens, don't tell me they really care about third world countries. They want you to care because they need your approval to go to war.You get the illusion that the war is "freeing" someone and the corporations get their money. See Halliburton, Bechtel and so on. By saving and freeing others US actually is saving their corporations and their interests. Everything else is american propaganda which I have to admit, brainwashes more efectively and more people than the NK propaganda. You don't even slightly consider that you are disinformed by western media and thats a huge success for them.
  - drumdance 15y ago
    Ah yes, it's so much effective than NK. Do you think you would be able to post a similar comment in NK?
    - 15y ago

middus 15y ago

I guess you're trolling, but anyway. All politics aside, the people in NK are hungry. Hungry as in "I don't have anything to eat". There's no doubt about the fact that the Western World managed to get this right.

ocdprogrammer 15y ago
I'm not trolling. Even if the people in NK are hungry (but they are not more hungry then the poor in the west), this does not give you the right to "save" them and take their little left posesions in the process, because you know, US never saved anyone without the army taking ground. If you see a poor man hungry on the street and you give him food, that's "saving him" but if you take his home and take his belongings because you can "manage" them better than him and if you force him to work for you, that's not "saving" him. That's slavery hidden in the form of charity. Isn't it strange that US goverment never saves the real poor of the world (saharian africans - they leave their salvation to red cross and independent charity) instead somehow US gov. always finds some richer "poors" and if they can't be "saved" by corruption and bribery, they are "saved" by armed invasion?

pyre 15y ago

> I don't understand why all this urge in the "west" to > change the north korea Going in and 'freeing' a country is never as simply as it seems. That said, North Korea is not in a very good situation currently. There is a very real temptation to 'swoop in' and 'save' them. The idea being that rather than waiting for (possibly) decades for change to happen (and all of the suffering along the way), we could instantly change things for the better. The problem is that this drastic change is tantamount to revolution, and revolutions are never easy or clean. Assume for a second that the US was perfect, and we could somehow attempt to impart this to the North Koreans. The population of North Korea has under gone over a decade of anti-US/anti-West propaganda. A not-inconsequential number of these people are going to violently resist US/Western involvement in North Korea. Even if we were able to produce irrefutable proof that all of the propaganda was a lie, there would be enough people that would violently refuse to believe even the truth that was right in front of them to produce significant turmoil.

ocdprogrammer 15y ago
The US can't save themselves. US never saved anyone, they only changed regimes and took huge economic advantages from the chaos it generously created (include here the "saved" europe). US government + their corporate backers does not care about their own citizens, don't tell me they really care about third world countries. They want you to care because they need your approval to go to war.You get the illusion that the war is "freeing" someone and the corporations get their money. See Halliburton, Bechtel and so on. By saving and freeing others US actually is saving their corporations and their interests. Everything else is american propaganda which I have to admit, brainwashes more efectively and more people than the NK propaganda. You don't even slightly consider that you are disinformed by western media and thats a huge success for them.
- drumdance 15y ago
  Ah yes, it's so much effective than NK. Do you think you would be able to post a similar comment in NK?
  - 15y ago