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Originally posted by James1982
Originally posted by Bleeeeep
reply to post by James1982
In few words: What you, and greenglassdoor are saying, is that flice's perspective is not understanding that the us has not accepted the full peace treaties, because nk doesn't want justice for sk - it just wants to take them in and rule over them unjustly?
eta: Or is it just all a game of puppets, and the puppeteers are us and rus?edit on 4/4/2013 by Bleeeeep because: (no reason given)
IMHO your right on both accounts.
NK doesn't want peace as we view the word, they simply want control over SK. Yes, they do want to bring north and south back together... under the rule of the north. The view themselves as the only legitimate korean government, with the south simply being a puppet state. which is true, but not the whole story. Both north and south are puppet states.
puppets calling other puppets out for being puppets, pot calling the kettle black and all that. While i'm no fan of the US government at least SK's citizens are treated like actual humans, unlike NK's citizens. When you have to keep your own people inside your country with electric fences so they don't escape you know something is messed up. When you are forced to believe your leader is bascially a god or else face death or worse, you know something is screwed up.
it's funny that people blame the US for all this trouble when russia and china are just as responsible. the US, china, and russia have/had their own interests at heart and care nothing of the korean people. they are/were simply using korea as a pawn, all sides are guilty, with the only victims and only innocent being the citizens of korea.
a 100% independent, united, prosperous, happy korea is not something ANYBODY wants to see, because it doesn't serve their interests, it's good for korea, bad for everyone else, and because everyone else is more powerful they are stopping korea from being united, prosperous, and independant.
i'm not taking any responsibility away from the USA, i'm simply looking at the bigger picture, the US, china, and russia are all just big bullies playing games with smaller/weaker nations, and to single out the US, or single out china is dishonest at best, they are all acting badly and hurting the korean peoples for their own purposes.
Originally posted by GreenGlassDoor
Reply to post by flice
Let's see Gitmo is a narrow group of people involved or associated with terrorists. As we saw in who the culprits were in Benghazi you don't go to Gitmo to die.
North Korea can't claim the same. mobile.news.com.au...
So the two aren't even comparable in purpose or scale. The fact that you apologize for them shows that you're so rabidly anti-American you're mind has become warped.
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Originally posted by Bleeeeep
reply to post by James1982
So to put what you and flice are saying, together: nk sees us as the most responsible party for keeping their countries apart, thus they target the us.
That of course leaves blame/righteousness out of the frame of reference. e.g. how right/wrong the countries are ruled as one and whether or not it should or shouldn't be prevented.
Thanks guys. Much appreciated.
Originally posted by flice
I know you are saying that you are not taking away responsibility of the US, but honestly....... neither China or Russia is no way near as imperialistic as the US is. China might be using money as a way to acquire property and influence in the third world. But America seems to be 100% depended of destroying countries with its military for growth and income in the homeland.
A country based on the necessity of war.edit on 4/4/13 by flice because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Bleeeeep
reply to post by James1982
So to put what you and flice are saying, together: nk sees us as the most responsible party for keeping their countries apart, thus they target the us.
That of course leaves blame/righteousness out of the frame of reference. e.g. how right/wrong the countries are ruled as one and whether or not it should or shouldn't be prevented.
Thanks guys. Much appreciated.
Originally posted by flice
Originally posted by Bleeeeep
reply to post by James1982
So to put what you and flice are saying, together: nk sees us as the most responsible party for keeping their countries apart, thus they target the us.
That of course leaves blame/righteousness out of the frame of reference. e.g. how right/wrong the countries are ruled as one and whether or not it should or shouldn't be prevented.
Thanks guys. Much appreciated.
That would be a correct point of view in my opinion... not wether either country is right or wrong, but what NK believes to be right. That does excuse their actions but it certainly explains them.
I just chose to believe that regardless of what kind of state any country believe is the right way to rule themselves and the cost thereof to its people, we in the west have NO right telling them if they are right or wrong and we certainly have no right, by the guise of liberation to impose sanctions on said countries, simply because you don't hurt the government of those countries, you hurt its people and therefore sanctions are no more than a way to try and change the mind of the people to hate its government.