an interesting coincidence: put together, korea altogether is about the same size as minnesota (223,172 sq. km vs. 225,163 sq. km respectively), albeit with a much higher population (~77 million vs. 5.8 million)
Austin Wu
This was just me making this comparison yesterday, but today the Korean news is calling Minnesota "America's Gwangju" and have human rights lawyers explaining how America is now living through the dictatorship Korea once had.
The Chun regime that my wife fought against in the 80s did the exact same thing. They needed a "crisis" that "only they could solve" to hoard more ill-gotten power, so they chose one city (Gwangju), declared its inhabitants enemies, sent trucks full of soldiers to violently attack and kill them.
