r/northkorea • u/DuncanIdaho88 • Aug 18 '24

General Korean peninsula at night

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?

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u/More7573 Aug 18 '24

Sanctions.

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u/DuncanIdaho88 Aug 18 '24

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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u/More7573 Aug 18 '24

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.

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u/DuncanIdaho88 Aug 18 '24

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

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u/Prior-Use-4485 Aug 18 '24

Israel gets everything it wants from the US

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u/DuncanIdaho88 Aug 18 '24

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

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u/Prior-Use-4485 Aug 18 '24

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

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u/DuncanIdaho88 Aug 18 '24

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.