Look, it’s one thing to acknowledge that the US had done some truly heinous things to North Korea during the Korean War, not to mention all the atrocities committed by Japan earlier during WW2, and how their current state of being so technologically limited is heavily influenced by western country’s trade embargo against them…

But that still doesn’t excuse the fact that they’re currently led by an autocratic, megalomaniacal dictator in one of the most oppressive regimes in the world. Just because they’ve suffered tremendously in the past and even now due to western governments, doesn’t excuse their government’s own heinous crimes against their own citizens… a country can be both a victim of foreign powers and still have an evil, oppressive government of its own. It’s fine to sympathize with the citizens, sure, but to say that their government or standard of living “isn’t that bad” is an outright lie.

Except, it’s not misleading… the Trump administration has explicitly said they are rolling back regulations that limit the amounts of heavy metals and chemicals that factories are allowed to pump into the atmosphere - the headline is about as accurate and straight to the point as it could be.