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Why does the DPRK (rightfully) hate America and refuse to cooperate with them after being massively bombed, but Vietnam, who was also massively bombed, now have a fairly decent relationship with them? (hexbear.net)

submitted 8 months ago by SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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To be clear, I'm not making accusations about Vietnam, I was just thinking about it and found it a little strange.

I can think of some fairly plausible reasons, but just because those reasons are plausible doesn't mean they're actually correct, so I was wondering if anybody had a more concrete historical and materialist understanding of the situation.

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[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Probably has a lot to do with it. As I understand it, the DPRK also isn't super duper China-friendly, despite Western propaganda depicting them as being best of friends or even the DPRK basically being China's puppet. I wonder if the DPRK's increased relations with Russia will create a similar but different sense of realpolitik balancing between two powers?