The U.S. allowed cheap Japanese exports to flood American markets, while simultaneously allowing and even encouraging Japanese tarriffs to ensure that Japanese markets remained closed to foreign goods

so their motive wasn't independence? a convenient consequence I suppose?

bruh are you guys seriously arguing about imperalism right now

How is South Korea a U.S. puppet state?

I said client state

Especially when South Korean firms are allowed to compete with American firms on the international market

South Korea economically and politically opposes the North

Of course they do, North Korea invaded them and is now threatening nuclear war

and thus can expect military and financial aid from the US, as they have done since the 50s

U.S. aid to South Korea is less than U.S. food aid to North Korea 🤦

nuclear war is unlikely between the two nations

Alongside this, the only reason North Korea has been preserved as an independent state is to act as a buffer between China and South Korea & Japan

provocation is met with intimidation

buffer state = not imperialist

North Korea is essentially a chinese puppet

Not only economically, but politically

cheap coal too, they ship it to their chinese imperialists

And also, either the U.S. is an imperialist country for the banana republics, or China preserving North Korea for their own interest isnt imperialist

pick one

Juche is a very one-nation ideology that opposes military intervention for the purposes of national self-realisation

How the fuck is South Korea the provocative state

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_against_North_Korea#United_States_sanctions

holy fuck you're actually retarded

"Sanctions against North Korea are provocative!!!!!!! Even though these sanctions are in direct response to their Nuclear Testing!!!!"

🤦

what an amazing show of doublethink

keep in mind that China has consistently supported these sanctions <:pepekek:329662310971080704>

US plants bases around the east as purposes of provocation

but no

totally innocent

kek

oh my god

by the way, nice argument, that's not what we're talking about

provocation?

south korea provokes with their wealth and freedom

as in who threatened who first?

"Is North Korea innocent, and totally undeserving of sanctions?" "muh us imperialism"

nice argument

I didn't say North Korea was innocent

I said provocation was met with intimidation