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This kind of justification for the North Korean embargo is disgusting. The world is inflicting poverty upon this people to punish the government for the grave sin of not bowing to US hegemony.

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Not only that, but this breeds hate towards the US as well.

Because in the eyes of a poor individual civilian who had food to eat yesterday and didn't today due to some stupid embargo, the US is responsible for their hunger.

That's gonna be true regardless of what happens, the NK regime isn't exactly going easy on the propaganda.

We've been relentlessly attacking them for well over half a century, starting by killing a large portion of the population. I don't think we get to pretend the answer to "what if we stop attacking them" is obvious.

NK invaded SK, not the other way around. Defending an ally from their aggression is a very strange thing to call "relentlessly attacking them". Also after the Korean War, not really sure I would classify much else as "relentlessly attacking" either.

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