I know this is reaching. I just wanna let this out. As a fan of Jung Seo Kyung, I'm disappointed with the Vietnam plot in Little Women, as a Vietnamese. But again, Little Women is still an excellent show despite its...wrongs.
But Tempest, what is this? What is that fucking political plot involving indirectly Iraq? What even is this plot implying? Was the subtitle wrong or mistranslated?
This plot seems to imply that the North Korean defectors are lying to trick the U.S. into a war. By drawing a parallel to Iraq, is the show suggesting that the U.S. was the victim of deception rather than the architect of a false pretext? Are they arguing that Iraq 'tricked' the U.S. into invasion, absolving American leadership of the decision to launch a war over non-existent WMDs?
If this isn't the intended message, and it's merely a red herring. If the point is simply that a new Korean War would be a catastrophic waste of life (which is true), then this is a terrible way to make it. Why twist history to make the aggressor look like the victim? There are better ways to argue against war and not dick-riding the U.S without being intellectually dishonest.