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You think people should be free to collaborate with a degenerate regime that has killed millions?

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Do you realize that people in the Middle East could literally say the same thing about USA?

They can say that the US systematically silences, murders and imposes totalitarian dread on its own people?

Do you realize I was replying to your comment where you called it a "degenerate regime that has killed millions"?

I'm not sure the us death count in the middle east has quite hit millions yet.... High hundreds of thousands, maybe.

IDK about the murder and totalitarian dread, but silencing is done via NSLs (aka gag orders).

I can certainly say that it is a "degenerate regime that has killed millions".

As for your new question, I would argue that yes, this fits the US.

In 2019 we were in active peace talks with North Korea and our own president even stepped foot in the country to collaborate on peace. It didn't pan out the way we hoped but it was worth a shot.

Of course, USA and China still seem to be doing fine and everyone wants to do business.

US of A and their war on [drugs|WMDs|insert other reason] happens outside of the country so the millions of dead doesn't matter?

Are you talking about the US, UK or NK?

Implying moral equivalence between the US, UK and NK is somewhat silly in my opinion.

Yes they are all the same, very edgy

They are indeed not the same. After all NK does not regularly drone-strike civilians in the middle east.

I think this thread should get Dang'ed.

Badum tss! What a clever retort!

The lack of empathy towards the North Korean people and the burden their regime imposes on them is absolute.

The problem is, do you think it helps the NK people when you make an embargo? The government gets his caviar and plasma tv's anyway, AND the gorverment has a good/true point that the rest of the world is evil.

Embargoes just don't work in such a closed down country.

Buuummm shots fired and full hit! :)

It is certainly ethically questionable but I don't think it is reasonable to imprison someone for giving a talk at a conference.

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