We all see and hear what goes on over there. Kim will execute kids if they don’t cheer hard enough at his birthday party or something? He’s always threatening to nuke countries and is probably has the highest domestic kill count out of any world leader today.
So I ask? Why don’t any other countries step in to help those people. I saw a survey asking Americans and Escaped North Koreans would they migrate to North Korea and to the US if given the chance (hypothetical for the refugees). And it was like <0.1% to 95%. Obviously those people live in terror.
Why do we just allow this to happen in modern civilization? Nukes on South Korea? Is just not lucrative to step in? SOMEONE EXPLAIN TO ME PLEASE!?
Not members of the Securit Council though who made the decision or the United Nations Command. So not any more say over the matter than any other country that was part of the UN (which at the time and still is pretty much every country, but not all).
But it also happened before I was born, so my possibilities on affecting the outcome are pretty limited.
Which returns to my previous point that “the UN” at the time was essentially just the US, the UK (whose support was bought with the coup in Iran), and France (who got US support in Vietnam in exchange).
Then why are we even talking about it? Because it provides an opportunity to learn from mistakes and avoid repeating them.
Pretty much every country was a member. This was the makeup of the security council at the time. Yugoslavia abstained, Soviet Union was boycotting the UN.
“Don’t start wars” is a lesson we’ll hardly need opportunities to learn about, no matter how many there are people are still going to start them again and again.
“Every country was responsible for the invasion of Korea because everyone was in the UN.”
“Finland has no influence over the UN because we’re not on the security council.”
Choose one.
“Don’t start wars” is not the only lesson to learn, also, “Avoid getting involved in wars unless you have a very good reason, even if you didn’t start it.”