Addressing the secondary issue first, I'm simply accepting that horrifying consequences arise as a result of war. Personally I don't condone violence outside of self defense or defense of others, but most any country does very very shitty things while at war. For wars started under false pretenses, the ones you mentioned as well as several others the US has been involved in, again i can't condone US actions. I oppose them.

On your primary issue, it's disgusting to look at US actions in the last hundred years. If you bring the US imperialism in especially Central/South America into this, it's inexcusable. But if you truly look at the US since 2008, even though Obama committed atrocities against Innocents, they can be attributed to wars, even in the case of undeclared war, acts of war were committed.

See, the US isn't even remotely close to perfect. But compared to a totalitarian regime which executes its own citizens at an unprecedented rate, it's a wonderland.

Overall, countries have fucked each other senseless since the beginning of time. But fucking your own citizens over is a recipe for disaster. Especially in this modern age, where the whole world knows what you're doing 24/7.

Seriously, killing even millions of people, even those who are too poor to understand the world through the internet is less horrific than completely denying 20+ million people the opportunity to understand the world.

SK would gladly educate NK. DPRK citizens are explicitly denied a chance to join the international world in a way no other individual is. And they don't even know it.