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   On 22 Mar 2020 at 09:07a, Mike Powell pondered and said...   
       
    MP>  > On 21 Mar 2020 at 06:14p, Mike Powell pondered and said...   
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    MP>  >  MP> South Korea is where they are today due to US foreign aid and mili   
    MP>  >  MP> assistance.  No US foreign aid = one Korea lead by the North.   
    MP>    
    MP>  > What does that have to do with how they've   
    MP>  > handled the COVID-19 pandemic?   
    MP>    
    MP> If you have money coming in to prop up other areas of your economy,   
    MP> national defense, etc., it is a lot easier to spend money on other   
    MP> things.  I am inferring that, without these things, there would only be   
    MP> one Korea and that would be a Korea controlled by the leadership of the   
    MP> North.  North Korea is not anyone's standard of good medical practice.   
      
   That's quite an inference.   
      
    MP> Please explain why you feel that foreign aid, and not being united under   
    MP> the regime of the North, has nothing to do with their ability to handle   
    MP> what is going on.   
      
   Well, I never said nor implied that.  That's your interpretation.   
      
   But you seem to be implying that their receipt of US aid   
   and military cooperation is somehow a factor in their   
   government's response to COVID-19; that doesn't seem to   
   be the case.   
      
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