Thread by @BonicMichael

@SungYoonLee1 You know what isn’t funny? Syngman Rhee never signed the Armistice b/c he didn’t want to admit ROK failed to reunify Korea by force. And ever since US-ROK have been “waging war by any other means” thru sanctions & not accepting DPRK’s nuclear deterrence as

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@SungYoonLee1 2/national defense. The comment of Yun So Hyun 👇captures the North Korean sentiment: “We have to defend our sovereignty, our identity.” The North Korean people have an identity, a socialist identity, that apparently you fail to comprehend b/c of the

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@SungYoonLee1 3/National Security Act. You’re not allowed to see DPRK’s socialist system as valid. ROK projects it’s own aspiration onto DPRK, then fear causes you to rationalize that its nuclear weapons are to enable it to “reunify the peninsula by force”. When the underlying reality is that

@SungYoonLee1 4/DPRK signed the Armistice looking to the promise of the war-ending peace treaty. The mental gymnastics you practice should award you a medal if there was a mental gymnastics competition. You are forced to claim that there has been peace since 1953 -

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@SungYoonLee1 5/which is a lie. A read of the current momentum would suggest that US-ROK, not DPRK, would try to reunify the peninsula by force. But if you try, DPRK will be prepared. It is South Korea which didn’t sign the Armistice and DPRK that has renounced forceful reunification for ☮️.

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