Thread:Amal1122/@comment-4425142-20170918180201/@comment-4425142-20170930140141

On another subject, the thought of North Korea supporting one particular terrorist group called al-Shabaab surprised me as I always saw the country only supporting resistance groups like Hezbollah etc. that aims to protect the countries' borders against enemy groups, read the quote below, from Radio Free Asia (link ):

"North Korea cares about the Tamil Tiger cause in Sri Lanka? Of course not! But it’s just a matter of getting paid cash. Now we see over the past couple of years they’ve been supplying al-Shabab, which is an al-Qaeda-affiliated non-state actor terrorist organization in Somalia. So, this non-state actor supporting of terrorism is nothing new, certainly, for the North Koreans, and it certainly is nothing that has stopped under Kim Jong Un—it’s ongoing. "

This quote puzzled me while reading a few times. I hate North Korea's government with passion, but I thought that they support resistance groups even if they come with hardline ideologies that fits DPRK's political views (I don't remember any ideological moderate group the country supports). Meanwhile USA supports some terrorist groups like a chess master chasing after money.