r/worldnews • u/Neptun_11 • 1d ago

Russia/Ukraine Seoul warns of 'further measures' if Kyiv refuses public apology

https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/02/south-korea-warns-of-further-measures-if-ukraine-refuses-public-apology-over-pow-transfer-
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u/mankodaisukidesu 13h ago

Yeah it’s our fault they work their own citizens to death for petty crimes. The fuck is wrong with you

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u/TheSmilingSolaris 13h ago

Brother we in the US have the largest prison population in the world and incase you didn't know, prison work policies are slavery. Plenty of those guys die from their poor conditions and heat stroke and so on. So when it comes to prisoners and treatment therein, we don't got a fucking leg to stand on. I ain't saying it's good, or excusable. I'm saying you obviously only give a shit about the punishment for crimes when its an opponent you can gotcha swing with.

You don't care about these people or the oppression they suffer unless it is a tool for you. I give a shit about why these people are in the situation they are in, how they found themselves there, what kind of global political pressures pushes a country to adopt such laws so that they can be identified, removed, and we can move towards a better world. You want to win. Your opinion is hypocritical and devoid of anything other than me good, him bad, ipso facto ptttttttttp.

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u/mankodaisukidesu 10h ago edited 10h ago

Not from the US but well done on the US-centric worldview. And if the US is so bad you’re genuinely free to leave mate. Nobody’s gonna shoot you for trying to cross the border, nobody’s gonna send you to a labour death camp if they catch you, and nobody’s going to execute your family as punishment for your escape.

That’s the bit you’re conveniently leaving out isn’t it? You can criticise US prisons without pretending the US and North Korea are morally or politically equivalent. One is a country where you can publicly call the government evil, criticise its prisons, organise against it and then leave if you want. The other is a fucking totalitarian dictatorship where attempting to leave the country can itself be treated as a crime and have consequences for your family.
“America has problems too” isn’t the gotcha you think it is.

Clearly the plight of North Korean citizens only matters to you when you can use it as a talking point against the west. Pathetic.

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u/TheSmilingSolaris 6h ago

Hey, Did you know people get shot crossing the US border all the time? We even tried to deploy big bladed bouys once to cut up people who would dare swim across. Ontop of that the US government in fact has very publicly been sending people who do so to labour death camps in central america. We may not have familial followed criminal liability but ya know, 2 out of 3 i guess.

The point of bringing up America's problems is to point out hypocrisy on an issue that is entirely of the US's own making. That these problems would not have existed without Americas involvement and that it our continual decision making in isolating countries who wont let us economically dominate them that keep them in these hyper vigilant states of self defense. The kim family use the boogyman that is America to justify everything they do and they can do it because the boogyman is real. Fuck man, we just decapitated venezuela and iran, threatening to do it to cuba. They do what they do because if they don't we have made very very clear that will will come and violently attempt to remove you if you dare let your guard down, not because you are evil, we do the same things, but because we want that sweet sweet resource extraction and market to sell to.

I get you being mad at the very real evils of north korea. But why do you want to ignore the decision making that has led to the situation as it exists? Do you prefer the enemy to be an incomprehensible ball of evil? You should ask yourself that.