Noord-Korea wordt door de regering van Trump en daarmee door de rest van de westerse landen gezien als een bedreiging...... Niet dat Noord-Korea, zoals de VS, de ene na de andere illegale oorlog begint, of illegale geheime militaire missies uitvoert in landen waar het haar maar uitkomt, zoals de VS al meer dan 100 jaar doet en nee N-K organiseert geen staatsgrepen, of opstanden die tot staatsgrepen moeten leiden, zoals de VS keer op keer doet...... Ondanks dat wordt Noord-Korea niet alleen gezien als een bedreiging voor de VS en andere landen, maar wordt het land zelfs gezien als een bedreiging voor de wereldvrede.........
Ondanks alle 'mooie praatjes' van het beest Trump, de huidige president van de VS, ten spijt, wenst dit 'land' niet in gesprek te gaan met Noord-Korea, zoals een woordvoerder van Tillerson, de VS minister van Buitenlandse Zaken, op 5 augustus jl. in Manilla liet weten........
Het is niet vreemd dat Noord-Korea een eigen atoomwapen wil hebben, immers de VS heeft zoals gezegd al zoveel landen aangevallen, dat het bewind serieus moet vrezen voor een VS aanval op haar grondgebied....... Vergeet daarnaast niet dat de VS maar liefst 15 militaire bases in Zuid-Korea heeft, waarvan er 1 direct aan de grens (gedemilitariseerde zone) van N-K staat en een andere dichtbij die grens. Deze bases zijn voorzien van het modernste militaire moordwapentuig en meerdere massavernietigingswapens.......
Beste bezoeker, lees het volgende artikel waarin nog veel meer feiten op een rij worden gezet, dit artikel werd vorige week donderdag op Information Clearing House gepubliceerd en werd overgenomen van Global Research. Onder het artikel kan u klikken voor een vertaling (neemt wel enige tijd in beslag):
North
Korea, An Aggressor? A Reality Check
By
Felicity Arbuthnot
“ … war
in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war
against children.”(Howard
Zinn,
1922-2010.)
“All
war represents a failure of diplomacy.” (Tony
Benn,
MP. 1925-2014.)
“No
country too poor, too small, too far away, not to be threat, a threat
to the American way of life.” (William
Blum,
“Rogue State.”)
August
24, 2017 "Information
Clearing House" - The
mention of one tiny country appears to strike at the rationality and
sanity of those who should know far better. On Sunday, 6th August,
for example, The Guardian headed an editorial: “The Guardian view
on sanctions: an essential tool.” Clearly the average of five
thousands souls a month, the majority children, dying of “embargo
related causes” in Iraq, year after grinding year – genocide in
the name of the UN – for over a decade has long been forgotten by
the broadsheet of the left.
This
time of course, the target is North Korea upon whom the United
Nations Security Council has voted unanimously to freeze, strangulate
and deny essentials, normality, humanity. Diplomacy as ever, not even
a consideration. The Guardian, however, incredibly, declared the
decimating sanctions: “A rare triumph of diplomacy …” (Guardian
6th August 2017.)
As
US Secretary of State, Rex
Tillerson,
the US’ top “diplomat” and his North Korean counterpart Ri
Yong-ho headed
for the annual Ministerial meeting of the Association of Southeast
Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Manila on 5th August,
a State Department spokesperson said of Tillerson:
“The
Secretary has no plans to meet the North Korean Foreign Minister in
Manila, and I don’t expect to see that happen”
Pathetic.
In April, approaching his hundredth day in office, Trump said of
North Korea:
“We’d
love to solve things diplomatically but it’s very difficult.”
No
it is not. Talk, walk in the other’s psychological shoes. Then,
there they were at the same venue but the Trump Administration
clearly does not alone live in a land of missed opportunities, but of
opportunities deliberately buried in landfill miles deep. This in
spite of his having said in the same statement:
“There
is a chance that we could end up having a major, major conflict with
North Korea. Absolutely.”
A
bit of perspective: 27th July 2017 marked sixty four
years since the armistice agreement that ended the devastating three
year Korean war, however there has never been a peace treaty, thus
technically the Korean war has never ended. Given that and American’s
penchant for wiping out countries with small populations which pose
them no threat (think most recently, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya) no
wonder North Korea wishes to look as if it has some heavy protective
gear behind the front door, so to speak.
Tiny
North Korea has a population of just 25.37 million and landmass of
120,540 km² (square kilometres.) The US has a population of 323.1
million and a landmass of 9.834 MILLION km² (square kilometres.)
Further, since 1945, the US is believed to have produced some 70,000
nuclear weapons – though now down to a “mere” near 7,000 –
but North Korea is a threat?
America
has fifteen military bases in South Korea – down from a staggering
fifty four – bristling with every kind of weapons of mass
destruction. Two bases are right on the North Korean border and
another nearly as close.
See full details of each, with map at (1.)
North
Korea also has the collective memory of the horror wrought by the US
in the three year conflict on a country then with a population of
just 9.6 million souls. US General Curtis Lemay in the aftermath
stated: “After destroying North Korea’s seventy eight cities and
thousands of her villages, and killing countless numbers of her
civilians … Over a period of three years or so we killed off –
what – twenty percent of the population.”
“It
is now believed that the population north of the imposed 38th
Parallel lost nearly a third its population of 8 – 9 million people
during the 37-month long ‘hot’ war, 1950 – 1953, perhaps an
unprecedented percentage of mortality suffered by one nation due to
the belligerence of another.” (2)
“During
The Second World War the United Kingdom lost 0.94% of its population,
France lost 1.35%, China lost 1.89% and the US lost 0.32%. During the
Korean war, North Korea lost close to 30 % of its
population.” (Emphasis
added.)
“We
went over there and fought the war and eventually
burned down every town in North Korea anyway, some way or another …”,
boasted Lemay.
Gen.
Douglas MacArthur said
during a Congressional hearing in 1951 that he had never seen such
devastation.
“I
shrink with horror that I cannot express in words … at this
continuous slaughter of men in Korea,” MacArthur said. “I have
seen, I guess, as much blood and disaster as any living man, and it
just curdled my stomach, the last time I was there.” (CNN,
28th July
2017.)
Horrified
as he was, he did not mention the incinerated women, children,
infants in the same breath.
Moreover,
as Robert
M. Neer wrote
in “Napalm, an American Biography”:
‘“Practically
every U.S. fighter plane that has flown into Korean air carried at
least two napalm bombs,” Chemical Officer Townsend wrote in January
1951. About 21,000 gallons of napalm hit Korea every day in 1950. As
combat intensified after China’s intervention, that number more
than tripled (…) a total of 32,357 tons of napalm fell on Korea,
about double that dropped on Japan in 1945. Not only did the allies
drop more bombs on Korea than in the Pacific theater during World War
II – 635,000 tons, versus 503,000 tons – more of what fell was
napalm …’
In
the North Korean capitol, Pyongyang, just two buildings were reported
as still standing.
In
the unending history of US warmongering, North Korea is surely the
smallest population they had ever attacked until their assault on
tiny Grenada in October 1983, population then just 91,000 (compulsory
silly name: “Operation Urgent Fury.)
North
Korea has been taunted by the US since it lay in ruins after the
armistice sixty five years ago, yet as ever, the US Administration
paints the vast, self appointed “leader of the free world” as the
victim.
As
Fort-Russ pointed out succinctly (7th August 2017):
“The
Korean Peninsula is in a state of crisis not only due to constant US
threats towards North Korea, but also due to various provocative
actions, such as Washington conducting joint military exercises with
Seoul amid tensions, and which Pyongyang considered a threat to its
national security.”
This
month “massive land, sea and air exercises” involving “tens of
thousands of troops” from the US and South Korea began on 21st of
August and continue until 31st.
‘In
the past, the practices are believed to have included “decapitation
strikes” – trial operations for an attempt to kill Kim
Jong-un and
his top Generals …’, according to the Guardian (11th August
2017.)
The
obligatory stupid name chosen for this dangerous, belligerent, money
burning, sabre rattling nonsense is Ulchi-Freedom Guardian. It is an
annual occurrence since first initiated back in 1976.
US
B-1B bombers flying from Guam recently carried out exercises in South
Korea and “practiced attack capabilities by releasing inert weapons
at the Pilsung Range.” In a further provocative (and illegal) move,
US bombers were again reported to overfly North Korea, another of
many such bullying, threatening actions, reportedly eleven just since
May this year.
Yet
in spite of all, North Korea is the “aggressor.”
“The
nuclear warheads of United States of America are stored in some
twenty one locations, which include thirteen U.S. states and five
European countries … some are on board U.S. submarines. There are
some “zombie” nuclear warheads as well, and they are kept in
reserve, and as many as 3,000 of these are still awaiting their
dismantlement. (The US) also extends its “nuclear umbrella” to
such other countries as South Korea, Japan, and Australia.”
(worldatlas.com)
Russian Foreign
Minister Sergey Lavrov who
also attended the ASEAN meeting in Manila, did of course, do what
proper diplomats do and talked with his North Korean counterpart Ri
Yong-ho. Minister Lavrov’s opinion was summed up by a Fort Russ
News observer as:
“The
Korean Peninsula is in a state of crisis not only due to constant US
threats towards North Korea, but also due to various provocative
actions, such as Washington conducting joint military exercises with
Seoul amid tensions, and which Pyongyang considered a threat to its
national security.”
The
“provocative actions” also include the threatening over-flights
by US ‘planes flying from Guam. However when North Korea said if
this continued they would consider firing missiles in to the ocean
near Guam – not as was reported by some hystericals as threatening
to bomb Guam – Agent Orange who occasionally pops in to the White
House between golf rounds and eating chocolate cake whilst muddling
up which country he has dropped fifty nine Tomahawk Cruise missiles
on, responded that tiny North Korea will again be: “… met with
fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which the world has
never seen before.”
It
was barely noticed that North Korea qualified the threat of a shot
across the bows by stating pretty reasonably:
(The
US) “should immediately stop its reckless military provocation
against the State of the DPRK so that the latter would not be forced
to make an unavoidable military choice.” (3)
As Cheryl
Rofer (see
3) continued, instead of endless threats, US diplomacy could have
many routes:
“We
could have sent a message to North Korea via the recent Canadian
visit to free one of their citizens. We could send a message through
the Swedish embassy to North Korea, which often represents US
interests. We could arrange some diplomatic action on which China
might take the lead. There are many possibilities, any of which might
show North Korea that we are willing to back off from practices that
scare them if they will consider backing off on some of their
actions. That would not include their nuclear program explicitly at
this time, but it would leave the way open for later.”
are
in fact, twenty four diplomatic missions in all, in North Korea
through which the US could request to communicate – or Trump could
even behave like a grown up and pick up the telephone.
Siegfried
Hecker is
the last known American official to inspect North Korea’s nuclear
facilities. He says that treating Kim Jong-un as though he is on the
verge of attacking the U.S. is both inaccurate and dangerous.
“Some
like to depict Kim as being crazy – a madman – and that makes the
public believe that the guy is undeterrable. He’s not crazy and
he’s not suicidal. And he’s not even unpredictable. The real
threat is we’re going to stumble into a nuclear war on the Korean
Peninsula.” (5)
Trump
made his crass “fire and fury” threat on the eve of the sixty
second commemoration of the US nuclear attack on Nagasaki, the
nauseating irony seemingly un-noticed by him.
Will
some adults pitch up on Capitol Hill before it is too late?
Notes
1. https://militarybases.com/
south-korea/
2. http://www.globalresearch.ca/
know-the-facts-north-korea- lost-close-to-30-of-its-
population-as-a-result-of-us- bombings-in-the-1950s/22131
3. https://nucleardiner.
wordpress.com/2017/08/11/ north-korea-reaches-out/
4. https://www.commondreams.org/
news/2017/08/08/sane-voices- urge-diplomacy-after-lunatic-
trump-threatens-fire-and-fury
Featured
image is from Socialist Project.
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article was first published by Global
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Copyright
© Felicity
Arbuthnot
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