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so Russia is not a “world superpower” but can get all these other countries to do their bidding at the drop of a hat. which is it?

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21 points

Americans are unfamiliar with “soft power.” For obvious reasons.

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Who North Korea probably still thinks is a world super-power

This is just shitty world-building. Even if you believe North Korea is deeply weird prison country where people eat rats that eat people and push trains, the leadership knows what’s going on in the world.

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24 points

Any veil of intelligence this guy tried presenting went out the window with that comment.

Fifth grade level political analysis in a lib school

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I remember as a kid when Saddam Hussein was bad, one of the propaganda things about him was in private he’d wear a cowboy hat and watch US movies. Like that’s how they need to Portray Kim Jong-Un. Slipping out of his leader’s uniform to put on baggy blue jeans and fire up MTV etc

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Liberal fanfiction, this is idealism in action.

Side note, for any DPRK-heads, is there actual risk of war with ROK? Seems to me DPRK is hunkering down after giving up on reconcilliation, not that they are escalating, it’s my understanding that neither side wants war.

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They’re responding to a drone dropping propaganda on them last I heard and they blew up a roadway leading south. So there goes any real talks for now I’d imagine. Still SK are bastards for trying what they did.

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They’ve also dissolved peace talk committees, to my knowledge, and are severing diplomatic ties. This to me seems more like hunkering down, you’d figure they would keep talks open during wartime as the goal would be to have favorable surrender conditions for the ROK to the DPRK. Just my uninformed guess, that’s why I am asking if anyone knows more.

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Russia.

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Jonestown_Juice comments on North Korea Claims Mobilisation of 1.4 Million Youth for “Holy War”

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22 points

1000+ upvotes, no serious pushback

i forget sometimes that we are one of the only places on the internet that has a grounded view of world affairs

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35 points

They just write little Tom Clancy stories in their heads

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I was just about to say that this is like Tom Clancy but less grounded.

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In Chaos Theory North Korea’s aggression is entirely the result of Japanese fascists who want to remilitarize hacking their missile systems with the help of an American military contractor who wants to start a regional war for profit, so maybe they should re-read their source material.

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3 points

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12 points

When I was in grade school I read a lot of Tom Clancy and spoiled the ending of debt of honour to my grade 5 teacher

I think he was part mad because I spoiled the ending and part mad that he was reading the same geopolitical thrillers as a 10 year old

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11 points

He was right to be embarrassed

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