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[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 54 points 9 months ago

When articles like this use the word "illegal" what does it even mean? Illegal for whom, and where exactly? Doesn't NK as a country decide what is legal for NK, or am I being obtuse?

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 36 points 9 months ago

Probably the “international rules-based order”, where the US (and its vassals like Israel) make the rules and try to order everyone around.

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 9 months ago

Ah okay, so it's like Mean Girls.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

According to the UN, which is a heck of a lot bigger than the USA and Israel.

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 33 points 9 months ago

Illegal via the UN like Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights.

[-] pan_troglodytes@programming.dev 6 points 9 months ago

without enforcement, the legality of something means very little.... like jaywalking on the street. no one's going to stop you but it's totally not kosher to do that - so everyone does it

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

Going to have to disagree with you on no enforcement of jaywalking. I have seen that be enforced several times here in Seattle. One of those times may or may not have led to my arrest despite not being the one who jaywalked. I learned that many police have thin skin. You also need cash to post bail so if you are getting arrested and want out quickly, make sure to have $1000+ on you to do it.

[-] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Don't the cops just take it if they find you with cash? Might not be a good idea.

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

I like how, as usual, this completely ignores that most of the weapons are still US made M16s, Chinese made M16s, and then some Chinese original rifles, and then in last place NK produced weapons.

[-] MarcoPOLO@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

Yes, but think of the headline.

[-] BlackNo1@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

critical support

[-] MarcoPOLO@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 months ago

North Korea supporting the side committed to ending illegal Israeli occupation and genocide, let's go!

[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 14 points 9 months ago

Few million dollars in weapons to Hamas ...... while Israel recieves billions in weapons contacts from America mostly but every first world country without a word.

[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
[-] PanArab@lemmy.ml 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I wish I was North Korean (Arabic poem)

The poem is not in Classical or Modern Standard Arabic, so machine translation will struggle with it and produce incoherent text.

Here's a few verses of it translated to give you a feel of it and where it is heading. It is written by a Jordanian poet in the Jordanian Bedouin dialect. It is from 2003 in response to the invasion of Iraq and the Arab's weakness and failure to stop it:

I wish I was a North Korean

Standing tall and head is held high

Humiliating Bush the idiot

Stomping his head with my sandals

I wish I was a North Korean

He [Kim Jong-il] did not submit or collaborate

Or he was frightened and forced to compromise

Or submit and cooperate

My head is like mountains

I wish I was North Korean

He [Kim Jong-il] said: "I have a [nuclear] reactor for you

Produces thousands of bombs

And their range reaches New York

You fool, son of a fool

I wish I was North Korean

I will burn you in the middle of your house

You and those who participated in the war

Don't think I am [Hosni] Mubarak

Or Saddam with my idiocy"

I wish I was North Korean

[-] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 3 points 9 months ago

I very much enjoyed that, interesting stuff.

[-] Nimux2@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 9 months ago
[-] LanternEverywhere@kbin.social 6 points 9 months ago

20's geopolitics be like

[-] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 9 months ago

Common Juche Gang W

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

excellent news

[-] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago
[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

You know I'm starting to think this Kim guy might actually be a bit of a jerk.

[-] sub_ubi@lemmy.ml 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Completely opposite reaction here, I think it's cool he's trying to stop apartheid.

[-] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world -3 points 9 months ago

"Dictator authoritarian gives lip service to the powers that they've always been ideologically aligned with on the world stage."

[-] yogthos@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago
[-] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

gives lip service to

Did you read even the headline?

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

He’s still mad about Dennis Rodman pooping all over his weird hotel.

edit: how is this comment controversial? downvoters please explain to me why you don’t like this comment. I’m genuinely curious.

[-] ivanafterall@kbin.social -4 points 9 months ago
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