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Hunting for North Korean Fiber Optic Cables

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288 points Bezod | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 16:38 UTC | HN request time: 0.253s | source
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petcat ◴[08 Dec 25 23:42 UTC] No.46199273[source]▶
Can we back up and just recognize how insane North Korea is? I think that future generations will look back on our history and wonder why nobody ever did anything about the incredible atrocities that took place in that country for decades.
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VWWHFSfQ ◴[08 Dec 25 23:46 UTC] No.46199321[source]▶
It will definitely go down as one of the biggest failures of mankind. Especially since it was so easily preventable if MacArthur was permitted to just take the whole peninsula.
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timschmidt ◴[09 Dec 25 00:09 UTC] No.46199545[source]▶
China was already sending troops and material to the front lines when MacArthur was ordered to stand down. Pushing further would have meant a hot war with China.
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petcat ◴[09 Dec 25 00:21 UTC] No.46199680[source]▶
A hot war with China in 1950 was going to end quickly with the firepower USA had on-hand.
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timschmidt ◴[09 Dec 25 01:08 UTC] No.46200064[source]▶
There is no way we could match them in numbers on the ground. Such a conflict would have inevitably led to us nuking them as a result. Which is probably the reason decision makers chose not to.
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petcat ◴[09 Dec 25 01:18 UTC] No.46200149[source]▶
And maybe that's really the humanitarian failure. That USA didn't nuke China in 1950 or 1951. Would have solved a lot of problems for generations of people.
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1. TheBicPen ◴[09 Dec 25 05:03 UTC] No.46201425[source]▶
Maybe the real humanitarian failure is that the US didn't nuke everybody and start over from the stone age. Can't any societal problems if no societies exist, right?