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No. They are the most indepedentest of the independent. They only serve one lunatic dictator and his family. And developed nuclear weapons against the wishes of
by qiskit 4y ago
No. They are the most indepedentest of the independent. They only serve one lunatic dictator and his family. And developed nuclear weapons against the wishes of US, china and russia. Can't get more independent than that. It's a country that literally starved itself to stay independent.
- actionfromafar 4y agoNK exists at the behest of China. China wants a buffer between it and South Korea. If that wish were to change, I'd expect NK to be either gobbled up by China or allowed to rejoin with SK.
- qiskit 4y ago> NK exists at the behest of China. No. China and NK was created with the backing of the soviet union. They were vassals of the soviet union until they decided not to be. Both china and north korea have been independent actors for a while now. Even before the soviet union collapsed. > China wants a buffer between it and South Korea. Why would china want a buffer between it and south korea? You mean between china and the US? > If that wish were to change, I'd expect NK to be either gobbled up by China or allowed to rejoin with SK. SK is a vassal of the US. You don't "rejoin" a vassal state. It'll be more likely north korea will one day liberate south korea than anything. South korea has a foreign occupation force. North korea doesn't. Think about it.
- tablespoon 4y ago> It'll be more likely north korea will one day liberate south korea than anything. South korea has a foreign occupation force. North korea doesn't. Think about it. LOL. IIRC, about all North Korea has for it (militarily) is MAD with South Korea (thousands of bunkered artillery pieces aimed as Seoul and nukes). Russia's got a far better military than North Korea, and it's getting torn up in Ukraine. North Korea, in anything resembling its current state, is never going to "liberate" South Korea.
- gwbas1c 4y ago> or allowed to rejoin with SK Who's preventing it from rejoining South Korea? I can infer that China wants it as a buffer to South Korea; but how can China disallow it from joining South Korea?
- pydry 4y agoChina wasnt at all happy about NK developing nukes. If they were a vassal they would have stopped that. They have influence but they dont control it.
- jitl 4y agoNorth Korea is a China vassal in the same way any random dictatorship in South America is probably a US vassal. China has huge influence on NK as their largest economic partner.
- qiskit 4y agoNo. South korea is a vassal. A vassal of the US. It has american troops occupying it. North korea is opposite of what south korea is. They have no foreign troop occupying it. And if north korea was a chinese vassal, they wouldn't have nuclear weapons. It's funny how people want to ignore the obvious.
- tablespoon 4y ago> South korea is a vassal. A vassal of the US. It has american troops occupying it. North korea is opposite of what south korea is. They have no foreign troop occupying it. That's one of your many misunderstandings. The presence of troops does not imply an occupation. If you mistakenly think it does, then (among other things) you'll be unable to perceive alliances.
- qiskit 4y ago> The presence of troops does not imply an occupation. 70 years "presence" of troops does. > If you mistakenly think it does, then (among other things) you'll be unable to perceive alliances. That's a nice way of saying vassalage. If it was china occupying south korea for 70 years, we'd call that occupation. If it was russia occupying south korea for 70 years, we'd call that occupation. Somehow, when we do it, it's an "alliance".
- tablespoon 4y agoSorry dude. You keep using those words, but I don't think they mean what you think they mean.
- xxpor 4y agoIs the US occupied by France? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_Command_Transformation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied_Command_Transformation