• Zexks@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Imma buck the trend and say yes. No amount of sanctions lifting is going to make them better or change their governments. Looks at china, russia, half the Middle East and Africa. The money you give them goes straight to the regime. You can put other North Korean lives of those on your tours at risk by asking the wrong questions or looking in the wrong direction to saying the wrong thing which can send them, and their family for up to four generations to a labor camp. No amount of interaction is going to override the fact that they live there or cause the population to revolt. All you’re doing is giving I’m money and putting lives of those you interact with and those WHICH ARE NOT EVEN BORN YET at risk. Yes it is immoral. Don’t tour the DPRK.

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      18 days ago

      No amount of sanctions have risked government collapse in the DPRK either, all sanctions have accomplished is collective punishment. This is a deeply chauvanist take.

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          18 days ago

          The US destroyed 80% of buildings in the DPRK, and dropped more tons of bombs on it than the entirety of the Pacific Front of World War II. Millions of Korean citizens, civilians included, were murdered by the US. Providing minor aid during the dissolution of their biggest trade partner, the USSR, while sanctioning them out of building up their own industry for trade with the world for necessities doesn’t cancel that out at all.

          Their nuclear program is to prevent the genocide the US committed against them from ever happening again, if you want to end the nuclear program then you should look to normalizing relations.