North Korea celebrated its founding with a military parade featuring dump trucks modified to work as rocket launchers
North Korea celebrated its founding with a military parade featuring dump trucks modified to work as rocket launchers
The parade was intended to demonstrate the country's readiness for a war, featuring members of North Korea's militia units.
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I sat reading the comments and nodding along and then realized that all this discourse is essentially 'poor country can't afford nice things '. I'd be really upset at someone that made fun of a person over the junker they drove because it was all they could afford.
How sad can you be if the "nice thing" they can't afford is rocket launchers
This is more the shitty gun they bought to scare their neighbor. Also, their kids are skipping another meal.
Just to extend that metaphor a little bit:
It’s like making fun of the cheap gun they bought to protect themselves after a gang set up shop in their neighborhood, took over their neighbors house and did a home invasion where 1/5 of the family was killed and the house itself was completely destroyed.
I mean, if folks were making fun of their housing I'd agree but this is the equipment they're buying to threaten their neighbors with, instead of feeding their starving population
I'm certainly not pro military, but if I was NK I would focus on military parades too. Every year(?) the U.S. and SK practice invading NK the people who live near the DMZ are always under threat or told that they are under threat of invasion. So yeah dump trucks with missile launchers are great, because of nothing else the people near the DMZ know they can at least have mutually assured destruction on their side.
There are entire generations of people who have lived in the fighting grounds of the U.S. and China. These parades show that these people will still put up a fight for their home.
So yeah us rich and militaristic Americans can always have a good laugh at the poor parts of the world we threaten.
If I had a poor neighbor that relied on me for food and financial support during hard times and then turned around and told everyone what a piece of shit I am and how much they're going to fuck me up next time they see me, and how much better their car is than mine? Yeah, I would call them out for their shitty ass car when they pulled it out of the driveway and the door was duct taped on. And I wouldn't really feel that bad about it.
And then after you recall how it's all your fault that they're on that situation? And you've kidnapped half their family and are using them as slaves for your interests? What do you think then?
Not sure you're going to be able to make me feel sorry for the Kim Jong Un regime. They do terrible things to their people and while the US is far from perfect, I really don't think we're the shittier neighbor. I don't think we're enslaving anyone either but if you have a source I'd be happy to read about it.
They do terrible things to their people and
Just as a quick test, see if you can remember what these things are and whether they're true or not.
Regarding slavery in the USA, you guys run the world's largest network of slave camps. You have 20% of the world's prison population, mostly black and other minorities. Slavery is legalised in the American constitution.
Recently slaves in Texas were dying in their cells at a rate of 2 per day from the heat, because the prison camps had made the water too expensive for them to drink.
Nothing that happens in the DPRK comes close to that depravity.
Eh. It's sad how their military needs to do this when it sucks up so much money already.
If they just invested in their people instead of their war, north korea would be a much better place to live.
Never forget how there is literally only one fat person in the entire state, and that's their 'supreme leader.'
How is it not a good place to live? Who have you been listening to?
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What?
Same comment in upper case.
You're not making any sense.
Typo corrected.
I don't understand? Why are you defending a monarchy?
The DPRK is not a monarchy, nor am I "defending" anything except the truth.
Not really, more like:
Poor guy claims to be able to afford nice things, waves a load of junk dragged from the local scrap yard in front of the local homeless guys claiming it is amazing.