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by philistine 481 days ago
That chart does not at all show that it follows South Korea! It is massively behind and has suffered a debilitating famine in the 90s. That on top of the spurious data collecting in North Korea that probably skews those numbers.

The people against sanctions want countries around the world to be forced to trade with North Korea. We don't have to be forced to trade with anyone. Free trade is earned, not a right for all the dictators of the world.
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etc-hosts 481 days ago
The way US sanctions against countries work is when we sanction a country, we also sanction any other country or entity or person who passes money or goods in return for money or goods from the targeted country.

It's not simply "We've decided to not buy and sell goods from a certain country."

more info here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2024/us-...

What really happens with US sanctions is the guys we sanction all decide to band together with each other and to oppose and hate America, and eventually withdraw from using the US Dollar, reducing the US's influence. That may be good or it may be bad but its definitely not what the US has in mind when it sanctions a country.

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cess11 481 days ago
Right, so one famine in the nineties. Other than that the curve is very similar to the one for South Korea.

Is this expected under regularly occuring famines?

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philistine 480 days ago
REGULARLY OCCURRING FAMINES!!! What is this the 14th century?
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cess11 479 days ago
Why are you screaming?

I would expect a curve looking more like this, but less irregular: https://tum.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Life_expectancy_in_Som...

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