North Korea said Wednesday that a U.S. decision to scale back military exercises with South Korea does not change what it sees as the provocative nature of the drills, dampening hopes for an early resumption of diplomacy between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump.
The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made the comments Wednesday night in her country’s first reaction to Trump’s moves to drastically cut back the annual U.S.-South Korean military drills.
“We think it’s not worth making comments on that and we have no interest in it at all,” Kim Yo Jong said in a statement carried by state media. “The provocative, aggressive nature of the drills won’t change even though their duration and size were reduced.”
My main concern is the general population. I have nothing against north koreans but I seriously dislike North Korea as a totalitaria authoritarian regime.
I accept the information and background advanced but in no way it justifies why the regime brutalizes, today, their population, while heavily indoctrinating their citizens and keeping them fearful of any outside contact.
We have this tactic very well document and it was used during WW2 to develop an irrational fear towards the Ally troops. The regimes then did not wanted whatever survivors to try to surrender and reach peace; it wanted for everyone to die. Glory in death. That is the proceeding of a cult, not a culture.
Even if a popular hero was necessary at the beggining to raly the people and gain momentum to push back, it does not justify enshrinning such a person and have their power bestowed by proxy, indefinitely. NK is the only necrocracy on the planet. The original president is still the president; his descendents govern in his representation. The dead have no word or will.
Regarding the US action post war, I was stating what it was. End of WW2, the US is heavily industrialized, solvent, militarily capable and became a pivotal figure for the resolution of the war. The great majority of the world is in shambles and wanting to lick wounds and heal. The US take the opportunity to expand their reach and influence on every possible front. It is not correct, under any light, but it was a logical outcome and one nobody really had the power to deny.
Then we get the Cold War and what the world got was just a more or less open display of menaces. Nobody really wanted peace or made strives to achieve it. The USSR turned into a brutally repressive regime; Stalin had countless people killed because he could, out of paranoia. It was meant to establish a regime of terror and ciment uncontested power. China took to that same book and so many other nations. Why have they opted to brutalized their people at some point? What justified it?
I think my response to all this would be my initial response again.
Nobody justifying a despotic leader but explaining why a nation of people are on edge (and probably why they allowed a despotic leader) and yet you say how the US doing something wrong was understandable. I don’t know if you’re noticing the juxtaposition by saying it twice.