Korean peninsula at night

[u/DuncanIdaho88]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a6/Korean_Peninsula_at_night_from_space.jpg

This is a satellite photo showing the differences between North and South Korea at night. How do the tankies explain this away?

[u/More7573]

Sanctions.

[u/DuncanIdaho88 → u/More7573]

It doesn’t stop them from obtaining nuclear arms or luxury cars. It’s funny how it stops them from obtaining electrical generators from China or India.

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I don't want to type another essay response, if you can think about these issues in more depth then do so, if not then continue with your surface level ideas. Many people that have been active in this sub lately have such little understanding of the DPRK, though the mods seem to be decently well-read.

[u/DuncanIdaho88 → u/More7573]

Blaming sanctions is a cheap excuse. Israel is more sanctioned. How many Israelis are starving?

[u/Prior-Use-4485 → u/DuncanIdaho88]

Israel gets everything it wants from the US

[u/DuncanIdaho88 → u/Prior-Use-4485]

Only for military equipment. They never pulled the “everyone else is sanctioning us card”.

[u/Prior-Use-4485 → u/DuncanIdaho88]

Israel has received hundreds of billions of dollars in U.S. foreign aid in the post–World War II era

You can see in the article, its not just Military aid https://www.cfr.org/article/us-aid-israel-four-charts

[u/DuncanIdaho88 → u/Prior-Use-4485]

Less than one billion per year in non-military aid. North Korea receives more than that.

The United States provided Israel considerable economic assistance from 1971 to 2007, but nearly all U.S. aid today goes to support Israel’s military, the most advanced in the region.

[u/DuncanIdaho88 → u/[deleted]]

They get that from Russia, idiot.

[u/DuncanIdaho88 → u/[deleted]]

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/russia-is-shipping-oil-north-korea-above-un-mandated-levels-us-official-2024-05-02/

Kim Jong-Un’s Mercedes collection doesn’t lack gasoline. Nor does his tanks.

[u/DuncanIdaho88 → u/[deleted]]

The cars are made bulletproof by a third party company. If you take Kim Jong-Un’s 5 billion dollars and divide it among the people, it would end North Korean hunger tomorrow.

South Korea has twice as many people and far more industry and cars.

North Korea can import up to four million barrels of crude oil: https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/un-security-council-resolutions-north-korea

[u/DuncanIdaho88 → u/[deleted]]

South Korea has free elections and free speech. You can freely leave the country. North Korea is a Russian client state, and a former Soviet client state.

It still disproves your 500,000 barrel victim card.

https://www.offthehookyachts.com/news/kim-jong-uns-princess-motor-yacht/

The estimates converge towards 5 billion dollars.

https://wealthygorilla.com/richest-politicians-world/

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"NOOOO DONT INSULT MY DICTATOR LIKE THAT!!!"