Post by Sammy on Feb 18, 2014 19:31:26 GMT -8
I had been under the assumption this was common knowledge since the methods used in North Korea were directly adopted from Stalin, who had killed an estimated 20 million Russians during his reign. It surprises me they are acting like this is new to the worlds ears.
So why hadn't this gotten out? How could this level of cruelty be hidden so well. It made sense to me once China had their reaction to the UN's charges against North Korea. Why would china refuse any assistance if they weren't guilty of something, and feared what we might find out? China has for a long time been operating under these same methods against their own people, and I can only imagine what they came up with together following the same path. I believe America has given some bad tendencies to other countries, like doing one thing and saying another.
This still doesn't explain how this knowledge escaped the publics sight for so long. We had a tiny tussle with Korea before Vietnam and then left it at that. We were aware of the methods being used and the government in place enforcing such acts of horror. Could we really have just taken their word they weren't doing anything bad to their people? The amount of victims, can only say this would have never gone un-noticed and in fact it hadn't. So why till now? U.N. looked into NK because of their nuclear possibilities, and then suddenly discovers the truth?
I remember during (not before) Desert Storm, finding all about the Middle East to which most Americans knew nothing of. But we were already fighting this "reign of terror" before we even knew what it was. So why have we been stalling? We only stand to gain for the better of the Koreans, and not financially. If China wasn't protecting Korea and Korea had massive oil fields, do you really think we would be "talking it over"?
Which leads me back to my question. Why now? Well I was looking at the world map. North Korea is in the middle of two MASSIVE import/export countries. Shipping things by sea is expensive, and why keep paying when it could be shipped by land. Especially now that Korea is getting all this attention, the money is ripe for the picking.
In the light of all of this I find it hard to complain as its the people im worried about, and the promise of money will make it happen. It just saddens me that justice is only served if it pays off, and how long they had to suffer for our profits. It's hard for me to think about the in between, but it always ends the same and time will go on.
(Above)
execution site of Auschwitz commandant Rudolph Hoess, one of the most wanted Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg.
So why hadn't this gotten out? How could this level of cruelty be hidden so well. It made sense to me once China had their reaction to the UN's charges against North Korea. Why would china refuse any assistance if they weren't guilty of something, and feared what we might find out? China has for a long time been operating under these same methods against their own people, and I can only imagine what they came up with together following the same path. I believe America has given some bad tendencies to other countries, like doing one thing and saying another.
This still doesn't explain how this knowledge escaped the publics sight for so long. We had a tiny tussle with Korea before Vietnam and then left it at that. We were aware of the methods being used and the government in place enforcing such acts of horror. Could we really have just taken their word they weren't doing anything bad to their people? The amount of victims, can only say this would have never gone un-noticed and in fact it hadn't. So why till now? U.N. looked into NK because of their nuclear possibilities, and then suddenly discovers the truth?
I remember during (not before) Desert Storm, finding all about the Middle East to which most Americans knew nothing of. But we were already fighting this "reign of terror" before we even knew what it was. So why have we been stalling? We only stand to gain for the better of the Koreans, and not financially. If China wasn't protecting Korea and Korea had massive oil fields, do you really think we would be "talking it over"?
Which leads me back to my question. Why now? Well I was looking at the world map. North Korea is in the middle of two MASSIVE import/export countries. Shipping things by sea is expensive, and why keep paying when it could be shipped by land. Especially now that Korea is getting all this attention, the money is ripe for the picking.
In the light of all of this I find it hard to complain as its the people im worried about, and the promise of money will make it happen. It just saddens me that justice is only served if it pays off, and how long they had to suffer for our profits. It's hard for me to think about the in between, but it always ends the same and time will go on.
(Above)
execution site of Auschwitz commandant Rudolph Hoess, one of the most wanted Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg.