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Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

Do you think it is just coincidental that every year, just before winter, North Korea shoots off a missile or shows militarily aggressiveness and then later, mostly unnoticed by our press, we ship them enough wheat and rice to make it possible for them to feed their people?

Asked by Espiritus_Corvus (17294points) August 21st, 2015

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elbanditoroso's avatar

No coincidence.

They may be warmongering communist assholes, but they aren’t stupid. And they have nukes.

Coloma's avatar

Yep, no coincidence only manipulation.
Ya know, I almost just wish someone would make a move and we could just blast half the worlds population off the map. haha

zenvelo's avatar

I think you have a bit of selective memory. The US doesn’t give N Korea aid very often.

And we don’t reward them for standing down from an aggressive action.

SquirrelEStuff's avatar

I don’t think it’s as much coincidental as much as it is the US and South Korea conducting wargames, and in my opinion, provoking them every year around this time.
I love how we throw around the term propaganda with other countries, but never think that we are subject to the same.
Propaganda by Edward Bernays

SK/US Wargames 2014
SK/US Wargames 2013
SK/US Wargames 2012
SK/US Wargames 2011

I feel we as a country, lack the ability to put ourselves in other countries shoes. We think we can do whatever we want around the world and not piss people off, which I believe is the main cause of terrorism, as we like to call it. We never ask ourselves how we would feel if China stationed troops all around us and performed wargames and drills in Canada or Mexico.

And as for the food issue, sure, North Korea appears to (from what we are told by our media) have people starving, but do we not have that here as well?
Hell, our government allows us to eat food with all kinds of chemicals on them, but yeah, they love us.

jca's avatar

People are starving in the US? Like Ethiopia?

majorrich's avatar

Nope. They know how to play the system.

divinepk3r's avatar

Americans are even greater at propaganda…their people love it!

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