Defiant North Korea tells UN its spy satellite program is its ‘legitimate right as a sovereign state’

https://lemmy.world/post/3853217

Defiant North Korea tells UN its spy satellite program is its ‘legitimate right as a sovereign state’ - Lemmy.world

Never thought I would agree with Nth Korea but they are right.

They have just as much a right to launch satellites as every other nation does.

They also have every right to pursue nuclear technology. Same goes for Iran and etc. Who the fuck are we to tell them what they can or can’t do as a nation of human beings?
And they do. But the US uses its political and economic influence to make it difficult to get anything to be able to explore nuclear tech for countries that aren’t totally stable. We can and should exercise that power when they threaten us, despite them being mostly empty threats.
Now guess who destabilized Iran in the first place… The US of course.
The whole 2 Koreas situation is directly caused by the US as well

Not really, it was agreed to as a treaty after WW2 (so US, China and USSR were all responsible) then the China-supported north invaded the US-supported south and it led to a stalemate

If anything the current unstable situation was caused by China, but there’s no way the US were the direct cause

Who instated the genocidal anti-communust dictator Syngman Rhee in South Korea? Who supported and armed him? Who has maintained a military presence in the south constantly threatening the north?

Don’t get me wrong, N. Korea has since become a brutal dictatorship as well, but in the 50s the south was even worse. The north didn’t just invade for fun - they were constantly provoked and threatened by the south.

Re. your first point, 100% the USA.

However, that’s one hell of a goalpost shift from “directly responsible” to supported half… Also the North were provoked and threatened by the South as much as the South were by the North… The North invading was largely because they thought they could take the South though, not because they were scared by the South into doing it.

I think who provoked whom is a bit orthogonal to the dicussion though there is definitely merit in knowing the history accurately.

If one considers that Kim Il Sung with the help of USSR and China defeated Japanese colonisers, then the USA swoops in and reinstates some Japanese and their Korean collaborators to positions of authority in their half of the split, I think it would make sense if North Korea invaded without provocation. No blood was spilt by the Americans in the process of Korean liberation directly.