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> NK applied to leave the NPT immediately after they deemed the US untrustworthy in 2003 They started the Korean War by launching an unprovoked invasion of the
by _zagj 11mo ago
> NK applied to leave the NPT immediately after they deemed the US untrustworthy in 2003
They started the Korean War by launching an unprovoked invasion of the South (after securing Stalin's reluctant blessing), and continued to wage a campaign of terror against them in the decades after:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimpo_International_Airport_bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimpo_International_Airport_bo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangoon_bombing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangoon_bombing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_858 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_858
And they got caught digging infiltration tunnels under the DMZ, in violation of the 1953 armistice:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Demilitarized_Zone#Incursion_tunnels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Demilitarized_Zone#Incu...
And they're known to have kidnapped thousands of South Koreans, and scores of other foreign nations, including Japanese citizens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_abductions_of_South_Koreans https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_abductions_of_Sou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_abductions_of_Japanese_citizens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korean_abductions_of_Jap...
Yet it's the US that's untrustworthy? And why do they supposedly even care what the US thinks, considering that China already intervened militarily once (during the Korean War) to preserve their independence and has been pretty clear that it will do so again if needed?