Never thought I would agree with Nth Korea but they are right.
They have just as much a right to launch satellites as every other nation does.
this post was submitted on 26 Aug 2023
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They also have every right to pursue nuclear technology. Same goes for Iran and etc. Who the fuck are we to tell them what they can or can't do as a nation of human beings?
Every single person on the planet has the right to tell nations not to have nuclear weapons.
North Korea and similar nations hold power thru the use of force and intimidation. What makes the government legitimate and recognized? Or better put, if another person or entity use force and intimidation to take control of that nation, what makes that less legitimate? After all they are following the rules of the previous government.
A country's right to nuclear weapons is equivalent to their ability to make other countries fuck off. No more, no less.
They're not wrong
Not like it'll do them any good. In fact it might make more people defect after seeing they were lied to about the rest of the world.
it might make more want to defect (though any information gained by the state will not be widely diseminated unless it supports their narrative), but it has become far, far more difficult to defect successfully over the past decade or so. i watched a pretty interesting video about it a week or so ago, if you're interested, but basically, the northern border with china is a lot more fortified and policed, china will deport any caught defectors back to NK and has a huge surveillance state appparatus, and the coyotes charge a hell of a lot more to help folks escape than most north koreans can afford. and then covid happened, and now it's even more locked down than ever.
Never thought I'd agree with good ol Kim, but it turns out we DO have shared beliefs.
Interesting article, but leaves some important questions open. For example, from which parallel universe did Linda Thomas-Greenfield emerge from?
“return to an era when we used our collective voice to curb nuclear proliferation... We must unequivocally denounce the DPRK’s unlawful behavior… and must call on the DPRK to fully and faithfully implement all relevant Security Council resolutions... we must address the DPRK’s global revenue-generating activities, which fund its unlawful weapons program.”
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So do other sovereign countryes reserve the right to shoot it down?
No, that violates international law.
They can try to spy on other countries.
Other countries can try to stop them.