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Culprit wrote:A few nights on mainstream news and online is how bad NK is and how people have escaped the tyranny and live in fear and horror. Todays news we have soldiers morale is low and they are diseased.
Are you saying these reports from the media are not true?
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I understand now. I would hate to think we're gearing up for some sort of conflict, which would be catastrophic globally.

I still hold the belief that conflict would only arise if North Korea was to attack another country directly, whether it be closer to home such as South Korea, Japan and Guam or whether it is an attack directed further away at the US or Australia for example. I don't see the US engaging in a pre-emptive strike under Trump despite the grandstanding and big talk, although with the neoconservative establishment being a powerful force in the US, I guess you can't rule it out entirely.

Although, is it possible we're just reading too much into it? Rightly or wrongly, people are fascinated by what goes on inside North Korea, and considering it's secretive nature, any sort of information about the country provides us with a valuable insight into how they operate and at the same time this also interests those who read news articles.
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I'm too young to remember the build up of the Iraq War, or at least pay any real attention to it as an 8 year old kid so I can't really comment on the media landscape of the way it was reported before the conflict started.

I only really understood it at the time as being justified on the grounds that Iraq allegedly had weapons of mass destruction (which later proved to be wrong) and they had a potential link to the 9/11 attacks with a loose association with Al-Qaeda.
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Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down.
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Where were you struck by Culprit's description of a sudden influx of new news reports and couldn't help but think about the similar media landscape in the lead-up to the Iraq War?
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The media would love the USA to attack NK purely based on ratings. Trump is keen for the USA to attack NK as it will push up his ratings.
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The media do, themselves, have some stake in this...

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I have never heard about The media do themselves have some stake in this .
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