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Shit... am I that much of a lib that i thought all the previous engagements against the zionist entity where with Hezbollah's military organization?

This makes sense on multiple levels, both from an ideological level and also from a pragmatic standpoint.

This end of detente visibly began with the demolition of that Unification Arch a while back and pausing the reconciliation initiatives like the "unified Korea" Olympic teams since the 2010s. This recent turn away from the goal of "unification" is a rather important ideological step for the DPRK because that aspiration, while noble, had always risked putting the cart before the horse, as the history of 20th century socialism showed.

In the DDR, the desperation for "unification" highlighted by the reception to BRD Ostpolitik prevented the development of an independent national identity. This meant that when capitalist restoration succeeded, the DDR was unilaterally annexed into the BRD by Kohl, who infamously managed to warp the "We are the People" protests into a "We are One People" color revolution. Any semblance of bargaining power for these "one people" of the DDR disappeared with the state. There was then the disgusting phenomenon of BRD landlords swarming into the former DDR to reclaim their "old" property and land, a kind of "Nakba" narrative except the fascists were the ones holding onto the keys. The DDR is a cautionary tale that unification cannot be done at any cost. In truth, it would be better for the Korean peninsula to be permanently fractured for the foreseeable future if the only alternative for the DPRK is a DDR-style "unification." As such, it wouldn't hurt to ideologically de-emphasize the concept of "unification" within Korean society, which ending this detente will contribute towards.

From a pragmatic level, there is actually little benefit for the DPRK to maintaining relations with the current regime in South Korea. Its present leadership has completely embraced South Korea's vassal status not just to the US but also doubly to Japan, surrendering unilaterally on longstanding issues like comfort women and just this week inviting Japanese troops to be stationed on Korean soil without requiring its legislature's permission. This disregard for South Korea's dignity is plainly to forcibly bind South Korean foreign policy to the US-Japanese military bloc in the New Cold War. Remarkably, this is happening under a Korean Milei who won the 2022 election by a mere 0.73% - who has eliminated any South Korean foreign policy autonomy through the stirring electoral mandate of a 247K vote margin of 32.5M.

Given this context, the DPRK faces minimal downsides in reducing relations. This opens the door for future engagement if a more reconciliation-focused leader, similar to Moon Jae-In, comes to power. In such a scenario, the DPRK could easily propose reconnecting severed ties, including these literal severed roads, which would generate positive headlines in South Korea for that counterpart's approval ratings without making significant concessions.

Seems to be a defensive measure.

Symbolic measure maybe.

Like, how many roads are there that connect the two areas? Do they get that much traffic? What real material effect will this have on the flow of people, things or either country's economy?

The good one of the two with confusable names, for all who also constantly make this mistake like me

Completely irrelevant. Listen to Mike Prysner, listen to Seth Green, listen to Joshua Landis. The chief victims of war are US soldiers, forced to commit morally objectional acts because of le propaganda, forced to shed their PRECIOUS WESTERN BLOOD because GEORGE BUSH LIED 😡🤬😡

58% of israelis: I'd definitely vote for Trump if I could

I mean, a fair number of them probably can....

There's something true that I have to say, even though I know I'll be cancelled by all of society and my career will end in disgrace. My conscience will not let me be silent.

Moo Deng looks like a giant poo

Being a dog of the us empire is one thing, but this is too far.

Wow neolibs have the same bloodthirst as fascist they pretend to not love. What a shocker

Has this man not been a consistent rotten tomato target for years

Losing interest in one crime against humanity (forcing ukrainians into a meatgrinder and getting their entire nation ruined) in order to commit another crime against humanity (active participation in a genocide)

the american way

We also said the libs would use Ukraine and toss it like a rag, and they insisted no, we will be loyal to these valiant heroes to the end!

Tankies and Z posters once again vindicated

Looks like the "tankies" were once again proven to be correct when we said that this conflict wasn't about freedumb.

You're not wrong but I think this was obvious when every AP news article couldn't avoid showing a photo of a Ukrainian soldier wearing a swastika back in June 2022 or something.

We're far beyond the point liberals care about Ukraine either way lol.

hello, based department?

How many people do you think are actually going to do it?

At what point does the UN shoot back at someone attacking them? This is use of a chemical weapon against them.

Imagine killing dozens of military personnel without killing civilians. Couldn't be the IDF.

...It's crazy that I have to hope that they were stuck in a bombed building rather than set alight by settlers.

Statistically speaking that's like, 20 idf generals

It's 61 injured according to Sky News, not dead, from what I can see. Though other sources, including in the link from Sky News, have updated the figure to 67.

https://news.sky.com/story/middle-east-latest-some-67-people-wounded-in-a-strike-in-northern-israeli-city-of-binyamina-using-squadron-of-drones-12978800

Israel's ambulance service has declared this evening's drone attack by Hezbollah on the town of Binyamina as a mass casualty event.

It says 61 people have been injured by the attack, with three people in a serious condition, 18 in moderate condition, 31 mildly injured, and nine suffering from anxiety.

What you are seeing in the video is the launching of rockets to provide cover for the drone strike, and overwhelm the Iron Dome system so that it can't track or shoot at the suicide drones that did the damage and got the hits. A sophisticated saturation attack, with perfect timing and co-ordination between the rocket launches and drone operators.

They mistake the men hitting the steel for workers, breaking it only because their leader pays them to do so, and his death marks the end of their work. What they fail to see is that the steel they're breaking is their chains.