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[–] Tallest_Skil 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Do we have to discuss the economic disparity in the two Koreas? East Germany was communist, yes. It was a hell-hole, yes. But Germans are white. Korea isn’t, and the north has been systematically starved for over 60 years. North Koreans are, on average, FOUR INCHES SHORTER than South Koreans. And other than smuggled DVDs and the sight of the south or China across the DMZ or Yalu, respectively, they’re trapped in the 1960s. Not just ideologically–with juche being a roughly ‘60s-brand form of ethnic communism–but socially and technologically, as well. For once in literally decades, Time didn’t totally shit the bed with this article. Give it a go. It will take half a century to reunify, and that’s if they were to start this year.
As a white guy, I don’t much care, and frankly anything that takes nonwhites down a notch (like a botched reunification) would be good in my book. The only thing I care about–RIGHT NOW–is pulling US forces the fuck out of East Asia FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE FUCKING 1942 and pointing our weapons at Israel. I’m sick to death of nation building. I’m sick to death of trillions of taxpayer dollars going to funding our enemies and competitors. I’M SICK TO DEATH OF WARS WHERE WE DON’T ANNEX LAND AND REPOPULATE IT WITH WHITE SETTLERS.
[–] Fambida 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Don't forget that far more so than any other communist state, best Korea has turned its communism into an actual religion, with Kim Il Sung as its prophet. They literally attribute miracles to him.
[–] Reymrgapurple [S] ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1989
[–] Tallest_Skil ago
And you expect Cuba, China, and Vietnam to fall after North Korea? 1989 happened because the USSR stopped being able to fund its puppet states in Eastern Europe. They couldn’t maintain control over the population anymore. Thing is, Asians are bug people. They’re far more likely to fall in line than whites, even when they’re literally starving to death. We’re not the same species. We’re not wired the same. Additionally, while China has been on the verge of collapse for the last 30 years, so has the West. The banks know this, and they know that China can’t be allowed to fall, so it simply won’t be. Yes, China has temporarily cut some spending to North Korea. It’s why Kim is making these overtures of peace. That and Trump called his bluff militarily. Kim knew that his army couldn’t even pretend to be a threat anymore after it failed successively to produce a deterrent. So what happens now? The North gets to stay a communist dictatorship, except now it’s going to have explicit and overt economic backing from ✡Western✡ business interests. And the people of Korea stay separated and disparate.
Did you know that the two dialects of Korean are also diverging? Give it another century and they might not be mutually intelligible. Ask the people of southern Ryukyu and of northern Hokkaido, after all…