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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 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.