Lots of more popular support for ending the embargo on Cuba, and there’s even a UN vote where all countries aside from 5 voted to ending the embargo on Cuba, but there’s very little international support for ending the sanctions on North Korea. Does anyone know why this is? Surely if you want to end sanctions on Cuba, it’s only logical to want to end sanctions on North Korea too?
I think its because of the Friends of Cuba movement at the time. The red scare during the Korean War was super aggressive. McCarthyism was born in this era and the agitation against support for N.Korea was intense.
With McCarthyism drying up and allowing citizens to express these views with less consequence, it allowed for better left agitation.
The Korean war was also super fucked up. Some historians believe it qualifies as a Genocide. The massacres committed by and under the supervision of the US were incredibly fucked. To allow for even a whisper of agitation for removing sanctions from N.Korea would mean allowing those conversations to come up. The natural conclusion of agitating for an open N.Korea means highlighting the countless noncombatants executed by the South Korean colonial police under the direct supervision of the US. It requires discussing the fact that 80% of all shelters in the north were obliterated.
There is a reason its called the “forgotten war”.