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by olelele 16 days ago
I’m sorry but the current NK regime and the Kim family consolidating power is in large part due to American aggression indochina. The Korean War was more or less genocide on the part of the Americans and history would be different without Douglas MacArthur…
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That's just fake history. The US didn't start the Korean war, they helped SK stand free of the oppression of the seriously evil NK government.

China then interfered because they didn't want a US aligned country at their border.

However there have been decades since the affair settled - and I stand by my opinion that if the US and by extension NATO cares whatsoever, they'd have just told China "we won't interfere as long as you free NK citizens into free people".

It would've not been perfect at all, but at least the horrendous reality they are in would've been prevented.

That's also somewhat fake history. The half of Korea under Syngman Rhee was almost as bad as the other half under Kim Il Sung, it's just that Rhee was "our son of a bitch" to quote Roosevelt while Kim was Stalin's son of a bitch. Rhee was just as keen to unite Korea using American blood as Kim was using Chinese blood.
And the American terror bombings of the north were the heaviest in history.