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Comment by drawkbox

Every 10 years or so North Korea starts to run out of money from the last deal (1994, 2003). A big money maker has been concessions for not pursuing nukes [1]. The money must almost be dried up from the last one, thus the posturing.

In the end this stems from a lack of coherent plans after invading Korea back in the day. We are lucky Vietnam didn't end up the way Korea did or we'd have the same situation still today. The middle east may also turn into something like this.

The US has to learn to win wars by economically winning over people and giving them more opportunity and freedoms, like Marshall plans back after WWII, ones in which we were also paid for but benefitted all.

We are greatly failing at rebuilding after invasions and this is another example of how that has blowback.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreed_Framework

parent drawkbox 9 years ago

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