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Ev | 유진 🇨🇦
@tch
In case anyone wondering why North Korea got the Bomb: "Cities like Pyongyang (75% destroyed), Sinanju (100%), Sariwon (95%), Hungnam (85%), and Wonsan (80%) were heavily devastated. By 1953, nearly 85% of North Korea’s buildings were destroyed" "General Curtis LeMay estimated that U.S. bombing killed approximately 20% of North Korea’s population" "More bombs dropped on North Korea than the entire Pacific Theater during World War II" Oh, and the South had started the war. ¯\ _(ツ)_/¯
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@wuthering
North Korea built the bomb for the same reason Iran wants it today: it’s one of the only two ways these countries can project a sense of ‘grandeur’ - by instilling fear and awe both domestically and internationally. By any other measure I can think of, these countries are small.
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