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North Korea has been mass incarcerating and torturing its people in concentration camps for many decades now and America has done practically nothing about it.
by komali2 7y ago
North Korea has been mass incarcerating and torturing its people in concentration camps for many decades now and America has done practically nothing about it.
I've always wondered the same thing. Why Germany didn't get away with it, but North Korea does? My only guess is because Germany started invading all of Europe and posed a legitimate threat to American interests, whereas North Korea doesn't. Added bonus of defeating the Nazis is we freed everyone in concentration camps, but I guess that wasn't why we mobilized the American war machine. It'll take more than crimes against humanity.
- ceejayoz 7y agoHaving nukes, and a nearby country's capital in shelling range helps a bit.
- umvi 7y ago> North Korea has been mass incarcerating and torturing its people in concentration camps for many decades now and America has done practically nothing about it. North Korea is holding a gun to South Korea's head. America already fought the Korean War, what else can America do?
- komali2 7y ago> what else can America do? Go to war with North Korea. Germany was bombing London.
- umvi 7y agoIs going to war with North Korea worth losing South Korea (or at the very least Seoul)?
- komali2 7y agoIf South Korea is at actual threat of being lost in war, I believe North Korea would have already invaded. South Korea is an incredibly militarily powerful nation. What we are saying is "the loss of life in a war is not worth the freeing of people imprisoned and tortured in North Korea," which is fine to say, and pretty much my point.
- umvi 7y agoI'm just saying that in this particular case, starting a war with North Korea means (at the very least) an artillery bombardment of Seoul which has a population of 9M+. This is a virtually unblockable attack that would (optimistically) kill hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians. Worst case scenario, Seoul gets nuked and millions die. There are other ways to collapse a regime without that kind of collateral damage. The US is not in the best position to do it, however; China is.
- bazooka_penguin 7y agoStopping Germany was more of a happenstance. FDR favored Britain and had the US assist in favorable "trade" but only officially entered the war and combat because of the Japanese. Had the japanese weathered the oil and metal embargo without retaliation maybe the US wouldnt have joined the war effort
- swebs 7y agoNorth Korea is under the protecton of China. Going to war with North Korea means going to war with China as well. And China already has nuclear ICBMs.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoChina doesn’t have enough missiles for MAD, and perhaps they can only reach the west coast with most of their arsenal (though maybe they have a few longer range ICBMs now). At any rate, China isn’t going to risk anhilation for the North Koreans, who are frenemies at best.
- b_tterc_p 7y agoRecall that America allowed Germany to start invading Europe, and may not have gotten involved outside of some supply chain assistance but for the fact that Japan literally attacked American soil first.