| > There was plenty of support for Kim Ill-Sung in South Korea as well, but there was plenty of opposition too. Please stop trying to sidetrack the conversation. > The North was a brutal dictatorship propped up by China and the USSR. No, it was a nationalist anti colonial government that aimed at the reunification and independence of Vietnam. > Both had Vietnamese supporters. Again, to dismiss the South as not a real country is just twisting facts It was an artificial creation imposed upon the Vietnamese by external parties; hence not a real country. > The mythology the North has created around the war Oh, there is a mythology alright! There's a whole myth created about this war, mostly by the foreign country that fought it -- to devastating effect to both Vietnam and the invaders who fought in it -- and who claims to be freedom loving and is still trying to heal from the wounds and the nonsense the war it inflicted caused upon thousands. This mythology is necessary in order to reconcile their aspirations to being a beacon of freedom and the fact they acted on the side of colonial oppressors. > But neither does Vietnam when it comes to Cambodia or Laos, but hey, they hasn’t stopped them But we are not talking about that, are we? If we were, we could condemn Vietnam's interference with other countries. Regrettably, this was about Vietnam's own struggle for independence and US interference with said independence. When the US was fighting for its own independence, that's good. When they were stopping and interfering with another country's, that's bad. The same country can act good and bad at times. This was a case when the US was bad. |