Korea is a weird case. I think for most people it's an easy conflict to reduce to out of sight, out of mind.
It's a conflict that could escalate into a high intensity war, and would be an extremely terrible one were it to do so. Millions dead, lots of damage to the global economy, millions more displaced, geopolitical saber rattling between the world's two largest militaries, risks of nuclear weapon use... It could get very bad, very fast.
Despite all of that, for generations now it's been very low intensity. Makes it easy for people to brush it aside, mentally.
Well, the two Koreas are at war, with only an armistice and occasional flareups.
Korea is a weird case. I think for most people it's an easy conflict to reduce to out of sight, out of mind.
It's a conflict that could escalate into a high intensity war, and would be an extremely terrible one were it to do so. Millions dead, lots of damage to the global economy, millions more displaced, geopolitical saber rattling between the world's two largest militaries, risks of nuclear weapon use... It could get very bad, very fast.
Despite all of that, for generations now it's been very low intensity. Makes it easy for people to brush it aside, mentally.