jokes like "haha I hope DPRK *does* bomb us I wanna die anyway!!!" are super not funny for two reasons.

1. Language like this affirms the US government's bullshit assertion that Americans are in danger. It will simply strengthen the country's view of DPRK as a "bad" country, legitimizing the inevitable military action against them.

2. In the event that DPRK *did* begin a nuclear war, it is South Koreans, not Americans, who would likely bear the brunt of the damage. Check your privilege.

@noxy *examines*

Uh, our soldiers there?

Also, Japan and Guam.

@Elizafox I never said *only* S. Koreans would be affected, nor that there are zero individuals with American citizenship who would be.

@noxy The American mainland for the time being will be minimally impacted yes.

But it's a matter of time. America doesn't want nuclear war as much as anyone else. We know where it leads. People shouldn't take orange man at his word.

@Elizafox My point wasn't that America wants nuclear war, but rather that the government wants to use the exaggerated threat of it to justify further sanctions and non-nuclear military actions against a third-world country. The orange man is not the only one supporting this.

@noxy a third-world country run by an unpredictable man who wants to tip a delicate balance of power in his favour.

@noxy Keeping in mind the Korean war never ended, and that Korean unification is something the North wants more than the South, on their terms no less.

@Elizafox This is a justification for American meddling because...?

@noxy Because it's our fault it got so fucked up to begin with. And because a regional struggle there could go nuclear. And that will affect *everyone.*

Bring Japan into this (we already have a complicated thing going on there, basically postwar legacy) and Korea's beef with Japan for the colonial thing they've never gotten over and it's a recipe for disaster.

I don't know if there's ANY good answer.

@noxy We made a horrible mistake intervening to begin with.

In 1952, we thought the Korean War would be over in a few days. The intervention of the PRC wasn't even on the radar, a country with 1/20 the GDP of America and was recovering from a bloody communist revolt.

Then the PRC invaded with a force of 300,000 and overwhelmed the Americans, we outgunned them but they had us outmanned, and the air war was a stalemate due to Russian training of DPRK and PRC pilots.

@noxy And now shit is so fucking *fucked* beyond belief.

@noxy And now thanks to the stalemate we and the UN helped prop up now we've reached this point: one of the countries is going nuclear, and it's likely in self-defense, the other will too.

We didn't even see it as a threat because at the time, Korea was agrarian and was basically pillaged by Japan. How the hell are a bunch of peasants gonna build a nuke? We assumed that right up until they built the damn things. .

@noxy What choice do we have? If we leave, ROK will have nukes very soon, and it will be nuclear war on the Korean peninsula, with the north backed by the PRC and it's... just gonna be a disaster.