North Korea operates an illegal arms smuggling network used to finance its nuclear weapons program, across the world, according to US and UN investigators.
  • Dr. Wesker@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    56·
    10 个月前

    When articles like this use the word “illegal” what does it even mean? Illegal for whom, and where exactly? Doesn’t NK as a country decide what is legal for NK, or am I being obtuse?

    • SeaJ@lemm.ee
      374·
      10 个月前

      Illegal via the UN like Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights.

      • pan_troglodytes@programming.devEnglish
        71·
        10 个月前

        without enforcement, the legality of something means very little… like jaywalking on the street. no one’s going to stop you but it’s totally not kosher to do that - so everyone does it

        • SeaJ@lemm.ee
          4·
          10 个月前

          Going to have to disagree with you on no enforcement of jaywalking. I have seen that be enforced several times here in Seattle. One of those times may or may not have led to my arrest despite not being the one who jaywalked. I learned that many police have thin skin. You also need cash to post bail so if you are getting arrested and want out quickly, make sure to have $1000+ on you to do it.

  • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    10 个月前

    I like how, as usual, this completely ignores that most of the weapons are still US made M16s, Chinese made M16s, and then some Chinese original rifles, and then in last place NK produced weapons.

  • MarcoPOLO@sh.itjust.worksOP
    2813·
    10 个月前

    North Korea supporting the side committed to ending illegal Israeli occupation and genocide, let’s go!

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    195·
    10 个月前

    Few million dollars in weapons to Hamas … while Israel recieves billions in weapons contacts from America mostly but every first world country without a word.

  • تحريرها كلها ممكن
    163·
    10 个月前

    I wish I was North Korean (Arabic poem)

    The poem is not in Classical or Modern Standard Arabic, so machine translation will struggle with it and produce incoherent text.

    Here’s a few verses of it translated to give you a feel of it and where it is heading. It is written by a Jordanian poet in the Jordanian Bedouin dialect. It is from 2003 in response to the invasion of Iraq and the Arab’s weakness and failure to stop it:

    I wish I was a North Korean

    Standing tall and head is held high

    Humiliating Bush the idiot

    Stomping his head with my sandals

    I wish I was a North Korean

    He [Kim Jong-il] did not submit or collaborate

    Or he was frightened and forced to compromise

    Or submit and cooperate

    My head is like mountains

    I wish I was North Korean

    He [Kim Jong-il] said: "I have a [nuclear] reactor for you

    Produces thousands of bombs

    And their range reaches New York

    You fool, son of a fool

    I wish I was North Korean

    I will burn you in the middle of your house

    You and those who participated in the war

    Don’t think I am [Hosni] Mubarak

    Or Saddam with my idiocy"

    I wish I was North Korean

    • sub_ubi
      2213·
      10 个月前

      Completely opposite reaction here, I think it’s cool he’s trying to stop apartheid.

    • gregorum@lemm.eeEnglish
      88·
      10 个月前

      He’s still mad about Dennis Rodman pooping all over his weird hotel.

      edit: how is this comment controversial? downvoters please explain to me why you don’t like this comment. I’m genuinely curious.