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North Korea training, providing weapons to Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis

www.jpost.com North Korea training, providing weapons to Hamas, Hezbollah, and Houthis

North Korea operates an illegal arms smuggling network used to finance its nuclear weapons program, across the world, according to US and UN investigators.

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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?
- Probably the “international rules-based order”, where the US (and its vassals like Israel) make the rules and try to order everyone around.
  
  Ah okay, so it's like Mean Girls.
  
  According to the UN, which is a heck of a lot bigger than the USA and Israel.
- Illegal via the UN like Israel's occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and the Golan Heights.
  
  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
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.
- Yes, but think of the headline.
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.
North Korea supporting the side committed to ending illegal Israeli occupation and genocide, let's go!
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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
- I very much enjoyed that, interesting stuff.
my boy
20's geopolitics be like
Common Juche Gang W
excellent news
GBoL
You know I'm starting to think this Kim guy might actually be a bit of a jerk.
- Completely opposite reaction here, I think it's cool he's trying to stop apartheid.
  
  "Dictator authoritarian gives lip service to the powers that they've always been ideologically aligned with on the world stage."
  
  he’s trying to stop apartheid.
  
  Yeah sure he, in your pretendiverse.
- 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.
lol
when you so desperate you have to get weapons from North Korea
- Try learning some history and you might understand where that desperation comes from. Until then, shut it chauvinist.

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