A classified Pentagon review later concluded the killings were justified under the rules of engagement, the report said.
We just invaded your sovereign country with a team of assassins and killed civilians, we found ourselves not guilty of anything
Wow, why do North Koreans hate America so much?
They must be PROPAGANDIZED and BRAINWASHED!!!
Not like us in GLORIOUS AMERICA, where there is no PROPAGANDA!!!
This isn’t even an exaggeration, this is genuinely what some liberals think:
The main issue is if that boat radio’d anyone (since a large portion of the population is brainwashed), NK would know and the seals would effectively be dead since they were right next to a base.
It also doesn’t remove the risk of them immediately contacting NK since if they don’t speak up they would be punished by NK. NK is notoriously underfunded, I could see a patrol boat having men pass the time by diving for extra food since nothing had ever happened before on their patrols. They wouldn’t be in uniform to dive and guns aren’t waterproof, and the seals were rushing to get away after the gunfire so probably did a quick cursory check.
It would explain why the boat was there in the first place which seems more believable than notoriously impoverished civilians having diving gear to go diving into the ocean after midnight in restricted waters during the dead of winter. The NK actively “employs” it’s citizens as lookouts and patrols, and with lack of funds they may very well have regular people on patrol with their boats. NK/China/Russia are known to have boats that pose as civilian crafts as a “navy” of fishing boats that harass others in the water while also avoiding detection.
Literally all those questions can be answered by “they were ordered/forced to patrol there, and decided to dive for shellfish due to hunger since nothing ever happens.”
I put this 9 posts up the page and it had ended fairly amicably until I randomly got accused of being racist and people like you who wonder why I would discuss something people are unsure about. Someone asked a question, I answered with my reasoning and proceeded to get 5 different arguments shoved into my mouth.
Not from Reddit this time, but from a forum: https://knockout.chat/thread/75294
Is that comrade vape
“I don’t know anything about it. I’m hearing it now for the first time,” Trump told reporters on Friday when asked about the report.
Again?!
Doing internal reviews for the DoD must be such a cushy bullshit job if you’re a ghoul. Get paid to write up legal briefs that say “Uhhhh yup whatever we did was totally legal”
I feel like this is a big accusation with flimsy sourcing, Russiagate-esque. It also seems like the NYT didn’t see this as a big deal. I don’t know what to make of it.
It also seems like the NYT didn’t see this as a big deal.
DPRK citizens aren’t humans to them unless they become “defectors.”
It does seem a little weird that the NY Crimes published anything sympathetic to DPRK and that makes US foreign policy look bad, but maybe this one slipped past the editorial controls.
Can’t be too critical of Dear Leader, now can we? Juuuust enough to pretend there’s a free, independent press. But not so much that the Powers That Be get their feelings hurt.
I saw a comment the other day on this that I’ve been thinking on, paraphrasing it went something like:
This article is intended to send a message to North Korea. Several years after the fact they publicly release details of an operation that was arguably pointless in the first place and resulted in a massive failure on several accounts. The listening device wasn’t planted, they were discovered immediately and the ongoing nuclear talks quickly fell apart after this, and it’s unknown if those are related. If you’re NK you have to assume this wasn’t the only operation and that other attempts have been made, and if they aren’t talking about those failures maybe one was a success. So this could be the US signaling to NK via the NYT “We’re listening” to spread paranoia or signal they know about an upcoming plan.
IDK, personally I just read this stuff as them bragging like the ghouls they are.
