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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: 0s | 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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nl ◴[09 Dec 25 03:30 UTC] No.46200939[source]▶
In what way?

The US nearly lost the Korean war.

The US army was nearly overrun at least once.

The US airforce never achieved air superiority, and Soviet aircraft were better in most ways.

The only undisputed advantage the US had was nukes, which is why MacArthur wanted to use them tactically (!)

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1. abraae ◴[09 Dec 25 07:32 UTC] No.46202249[source]▶
The subsequent Vietnam war reinforced this even more.

The only path that America had to win in Vietnam was to destroy it, including the population they were allegedly there to protect. Hence they lost.