Hacker News Reader

Comment by pyre | Hacker News Reader

  > The US can't save themselves. US never saved anyone,
  > they only changed regimes

You're either incapable of understanding my post, or you're just trollin'. I'm not even going to bother continuing a conversation with you.

  > You don't even slightly consider that you are
  > disinformed by western media

This is the problem with your arguments. You're presenting counter-points (i.e. "western media is lies!") without anything to back it up. This has 'troll' written all over it. Why? You're not responding directly to anything that was actually said (e.g. what parts of my post are mistaken based on 'western media lies?'). You are also going out of your way to be as not specific as possible, just controversial (e.g. What is western media lying to me about? Everything? So when western media says that I need to eat to stay alive that's a lie too?).

View on HN

The situation in NK is continuously presented in negative terms(lots of speculative numbers and information is presented as facts). The people "die of hunger" (and the media presents images with sick kids as if this is the fault of Kim Jong Il), they are oppressed and the immediate suggestion is that US and the world somehow has this obligation to solve this problem.They forget somehow (lie by omision) to mention that a lot of the hunger and sickness is provoked by the embargo imposed on them by US.The second lie is that the leaders of north Korea are crazy, and that they have atomic bomb and want to attack others around, without rational reason.This is a lie, they only threatened to defend themselves in case they are attacked (all this while they are surrounded and provoked by US and South Korea navy). If you watch closely, it's the same recipe applied to Iran and Irak. Present rumors about victims and atrocities, weapons of mass destruction, insane leaders and intentions of war as facts and propose an invasion if some vague terms are not respected by the "rogue state" all this because we have to defend ourselves right ? Did Iran or NK ever say they want to implement preemptive strikes like US ? No, but still they are seen as the aggressors here and not US which is all over them spying and making plans and publicly announcing that "nothing is off the table". And tell me this is possible because mass media tells the truth (we know in the case of Irak that mass media lied together with the Bush administration but now you want to pretend that was an "isolated case").

Are you able to consider North Korea's situation on its own merits, rather than harping on the deeds of the United States? Can't the Kim family dynasty be brutal and oppressive independently of the US? I think that they can be, and have proven it.

I suggest you look at the material that comes out of North Korea, from human rights groups and the like. The "rumours" of how life is inside of North Korea are backed by very credible evidence. Much less evidence exists to support the claims made by North Korea's government. Or do you think that there were actually celestial events to herald the birth of Kim Jong-Il?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com