The US also secretly knows that it’s soldiers will defect as soon as those poor, undernourished people who signed up so they could be taught to read and get access to healthcare see the true level of development in the DRPK.
the reason was and always has been the same: you could defect on pragmatic and material grounds, but your family and all your life remain in the nation you left. So, specially for a young man, it’s often not an option.
You are a young german. You defect to the USSR. And then? your family hates you, your former country considers you a traitor, you don’t speak the language, don’t know the culture and everyone in the new country is at least suspicious of you.
Do you know much about that history? Like, why didn’t the US do to DPRK what it did to Vietnam (maybe it did, and I’ve just not heard about it). I have some hypotheses, but I’m just guessing really (i.e. (1) the US managed to keep a foothold in the south of Korea, but not in Vietnam, (2) it didn’t have the capacity for another such war in the region at that time, and (3) the Korean war never stopped, hence the south remains occupied, and that was enough for imperialist goals even if they still have a vendetta because the DPRK embarrassed them).
The US also secretly knows that it’s soldiers will defect as soon as those poor, undernourished people who signed up so they could be taught to read and get access to healthcare see the true level of development in the DRPK.
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the reason was and always has been the same: you could defect on pragmatic and material grounds, but your family and all your life remain in the nation you left. So, specially for a young man, it’s often not an option.
You are a young german. You defect to the USSR. And then? your family hates you, your former country considers you a traitor, you don’t speak the language, don’t know the culture and everyone in the new country is at least suspicious of you.
The more respect for the Americans who did defected to DPRK.
There is a pacifist I know that would sign up to kill Koreans but not for any other war. There seems to be a special hatred for DPRK.
IMO the DPRK is the Haiti of Asia. The white empires hate them because they got away and have vowed to punish them.
Do you know much about that history? Like, why didn’t the US do to DPRK what it did to Vietnam (maybe it did, and I’ve just not heard about it). I have some hypotheses, but I’m just guessing really (i.e. (1) the US managed to keep a foothold in the south of Korea, but not in Vietnam, (2) it didn’t have the capacity for another such war in the region at that time, and (3) the Korean war never stopped, hence the south remains occupied, and that was enough for imperialist goals even if they still have a vendetta because the DPRK embarrassed them).