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You know that there are death camps in North Korea to this day right? Where as South Korea does not have any death camps.

US went out of its way to stop the spread of the communism and destabilize socialist countries in the 20th century. I think these foreign policy decisions were a mistake. Our focus should be on a country’s political structure and not its economic structure.

Afghanistan HAD democracy under the DRA

One party systems are not democracy. edit: spacing

And Iraq, this MUST be the single democratic war fought by the U.S. right?

This is a straw man. I don’t agree with the war in Iraq. Read my comments if you don’t believe me. Iraq gained democracy which is the only silver lining I can think of but their government has since backslid to the detriment of the Iraqi people. Hopefully they will make a course correction.

Say that bs “oh I guess they weren’t ready for democracy” nonsense again I dare you. You don’t deserve to prance around these topics and “learn” by defending horrific atrocities and seeing what responses you get.

Democracy cannot be forced. If people don’t fight to defend it, it will be taken away. edit: grammar

I’ve spent a lot of time learning about these topics because they interest me. But I’m certainly not an expert.

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Your reply barely addresses anything lmao.

The feeling is mutual.

Here you go. I found a bunch on the topic. This was my google search: death camps in north kora

I even spelled it wrong and still found it, lol.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/02/09/un-finds-torture-forced-labor-still-rampant-north-korean-prisons

Feel free to give me an alternate interpretation.

Bush wanted revenge for the assassination plot against his dad by Sadddam and a think tank tried to justify it with bringing democracy to Iraq. The war brought democracy, but it doesn’t seem to be lasting. Democratic institutions have to be actively maintained. Hopefully democracy will last in Iraq. And there were no weapons of mass destruction.

where people were not ready for it.

Everyone is ready for democracy. I believe everyone is capable of choosing to fight for democracy. The fact is people in Afghanistan choose not to fight for their democracy. Their military accepted bribes from the Taliban and the citizens did not rise up in response. I watched the news, it happened very quickly.

We need to learn from our mistakes. We need to do better. Throwing our hands and giving up because of moral issues is not helpful.

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I’ll get around to the comment you addressed to me but:

You know that there are death camps in North Korea to this day right?

Death camps are camps used for killing people, usually in a semi-industrialized fashion. The DPRK has never had these. It has prison labor, but that’s not the same. South Korea also has prison labor.

Edit: Regarding your article, aside from HRW being literally purpose-built for laundering those sorts of stories and the “evidence” being an office in the UN submitting something for discussion, South Korea also has accusations against it of torturing political prisoners.

Still no death camps in “north kora”

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