Comments by "Awesome Avenger" (@awesomeavenger2810) on "Kim Jong-Un's New Strategy: Explained" video.

  1. North Korea produces nothing to trade. Since 1995 North Korea has received $1,313.75 million in aid from the US.
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  2. That is still a massive amount of aid accepted from North Korea's supposed great imperialist enemy. With enemies like that, who needs friends? When the soviet union collapsed, Russia was no longer prepared to offer credit to North Korea. They wanted their cash up front, as the North Korean regime had a long history of not paying up. I don't know about China. China is only interested in keeping Korea divided, as it doesn't want a free and democratic Korea on it borders.
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  3. https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R40095.pdf
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  4. The US has no interest in invading North Korea. The reality is that reunification would be an economic disaster for South Korea. Far worse than German reunification was for west Germany. Provocation has all been from the North. From unprovoked shelling inside South Korean territory, to the unprovoked attack and sinking of a South Korean navy vessel (the Cheonan), to the kidnap of South Korean and Japanese civilians. And the aid has all been from the other direction. North Korean policy aims are about getting foreign aid. And dictating South Korean foreign and defence policy. They demand the South halt its military cooperation with the US and stop regular military manoeuvres with the US. This would essentially make South Korean defence and foreign policy subservient to the demands of the North Korean regime, rather than to the interests of South Korea (it goes without saying that North Korea does not consider its own defence policy to be anyone's business but its own). North Korean policy is aimed at wearing down its opponents to the point that someone somewhere finally says ''...wouldn't it be easier just to give them what they want?'
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  5. Perhaps the answer is to remind countries like China (and Russia) that non-nuclear proliferation isn't just in the interests of the west? How would China feel about both South Korea and Japan getting nukes? A nuclear armed Japan and South Korea would be a disaster for China. But how would they argue against it, when they stood by a did nothing to prevent North Korea from arming itself with nukes?
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  6. A very good video.
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  7. Israel is a friend and ally of the US. So it cannot be compared with North Korea, which is anything but. I'm not saying that giving billions in aid to North Korea is the answer. But Trump hasn't, and most likely won't, solve the problem that is North Korea. That's not a criticism of Trump. Because neither did any president before him. US policy on North Korea has always by necessity been short term. The issue will only be resolved with the fall of the Kim regime. And perhaps not even then.
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