[notreallytrue]

As any other country did something similar to what US did?

Can you name one which isn't already bad?

Like, I don't know, Spain? Germany? Argentina? South Africa?

The greatest democracy and country in the World shouldn't even be in the same business of North Korea style

And yet...

[ben_w]

There’s plenty of stuff America does wrong, present tense and past, without needing to make hyperbolic comparisons to NK.

[notreallytrue]

It's not hyperbolic

How many countries NK invaded?

How many coup d'état that established long and painful military dictatorships around the World it supported and/or financed?

At least nobody calls NK the greatest democracy and country in the world or the land of the free...

[ben_w]

On the other hand, how many styles of haircut are you legally allowed in the USA? Can you leave if you want to? Can you criticise the government without you and your family being shot?

Never mind Apples and Oranges, you’re comparing a rabid kitten (NK: you don’t want to be a cell inside it, but the animal is containable) with a healthy chimpanzee in the jungle you’re walking though (USA: violent and acts like it owns the place, so being one of its cells is safer than being a cell in many of the things around it).

[romanoderoma]

Good answer, but hyronically in USA you have 6 chances in 100 thousands to be murdered, in NK it's 6 in a million.

Looks like the chimpanzee cells are not safer after all.

[ben_w]

What’s your source? Wikipedia puts their intentional homicide rates at 4.96 and 4.40 per 100k respectively.

[romanoderoma]

Homicide rate in NK (4.4 / 100k)

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/intentional-homicides-per...

Homicide rates from firearms NK (0.11 / 100k)

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/homicide-rates-from-firea...

Homicide rate in USA (6.1 / 100k)

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/homicide-rate?tab=chart&s...

Homicide rates from firearms USA (4.63 / 100k)

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/homicide-rates-from-firea...

So USA is more dangerous than NK in general and the chances of getting shot and killed (quoting "Can you criticise the government without you and your family being shot?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25032711) are 42 times worse in USA than in NK.

It means that for every person shot and killed in NK there are 42 in USA.

I was wrong anyway, it's not 6 chances in 1 million but ~1 chance in a million to get shot and killed in NK.

Compare it now to some other western country, for example Italy, my country:

homicide rate: 0.7 / 100k

homicide rate by firearms: 0.3 / 100k

Italy is quite average for the west, all the other western countries have similar stats, more or less.

What's wrong with the US?