• I mean if the country you relied on for defence for the past 7 decades suddenly tells everyone that they’re not going to back any of their allies up any more, raids your air defence system missile stocks for some mad war in the Middle East, and vacates the area, what would you do?

    • deft ( deft@lemmy.wtf ) 
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      Flip side. The country pointing it’s gun at you for the last few decades is suddenly sending troops and most of it’s arms to the European theater. Maybe we can talk now

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    Lol people thinking South Korea was the one resisting any sort of cooperation.

    I love the tankies who seem to think North Korea will be the one to absorb South Korea or something…

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    Don’t forget that the north has sold most of their artillery stock piles off to Russia and sent many of their troops to Ukraine. A huge part of their position was having that massive artillery stockpile aimed at Seoul. They are in a much weaker position, militarily, and much more stable with the building materials, food, and cars they’ve received in return.

    The long-term outlook isn’t very good, but for now there is less of a need for military presence and war preparation on the peninsula.

  • CheetahHybrid  ( CheetahHybrid@pawb.social ) 
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    Giving the Kim dynasty anything is a mistake. They will take the idea and spin it as if they successfully negotiated peace even though the world was against them. They will portray it as if they have the superior military might. In the end, through NK people still suffer.