Noord-Korea verkeerd begrepen: het land wordt bedreigd door de VS, dat alleen deze eeuw al minstens 4 illegale oorlogen begon........

In het volgende artikel van Darius Shahtahmasebi, gisteren gepubliceerd op Anti-Media, analyseert hij de situatie waarin Noord-Korea zich bevindt.

Noord-Korea hetzelfde land in de Koreaanse oorlog al volledig plat werd gebombardeerd door de VS en wel op zo'n manier, dat het VS oppercommando in 1953 letterlijk geen doelen meer kon vinden om te bombarderen, waarna men dammen ging bombarderen, zodat o.a. de rijstoogst totaal mislukte en grote delen van het platteland en steden onder water kwamen te staan (een enorme oorlogsmisdaad!!)....

Even wat VS oorlogsmisdaden begaan tegen Noord-Korea: in de Koreaanse oorlog bombardeerde de VS: 1.000 ziekenhuizen, 8.700 fabrieken, 5.000 scholen en 600.000 huizen/wooncomplexen........... Bij die bombardementen werd naar schatting 20% van de bevolking vermoord.....

Kortom Noord-Korea heeft alle redenen om bang te zijn voor de VS en vooral door te gaan met de ontwikkeling van kernwapens (volgens Shahtahmasebi heeft Noord-Korea deze al, maar dat is maar zeer de vraag*). Zeker gezien eerdere illegale oorlogen van de VS, zoals die tegen Irak en Libië: landen die ondanks het opgeven van programma's voor het ontwikkelen van kernwapens en andere massavernietigingswapens (onder druk van NB de VS!), alsnog bijna geheel werden vernietigd door de grootste terreurentiteit op aarde, dezelfde VS........

Kortom, ondanks dat Noord-Korea geen ander land aanvalt en de VS voortdurend niet anders doet**, wordt door het overgrote deel van de westerse politici en de reguliere (massa-) media juist Noord-Korea als de grote agressor voorgesteld......... Vergeet daarbij niet, dat de VS en Zuid-Korea jaarlijks grootscheepse oefeningen houden langs de grenzen van Noord-Korea, inclusief het afschieten van raketten, waarbij o.a. de landing op Noord-Koreaanse bodem wordt gesimuleerd, iets dat de Noord-Koreanen terecht al vele decennia zwaar frustreert......

Je zou zelfs kunnen constateren, de de agressie van de VS het bewind in Noord-Korea stevig in het zadel houdt.........

Lees dit uitstekende artikel van Shahtahmasebi: 

Everyone Is Wrong About North Korea

August 16, 2017 at 10:13 am

Written by Darius Shahtahmasebi

(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — Imagine a world where one country – country X – is bombing at least seven countries at any one time and is seeking to bomb an eighth, all the while threatening an adversarial ninth state – country Y – that they will bomb that country into oblivion, as well. Imagine that in this world, country X already bombed country Y back into the Stone Age several decades ago, which directly led to the current adversarial nature of the relationship between the two countries.

Now imagine that country Y, which is currently bombing no one and is concerned mostly with well-founded threats against its own security, threatens to retaliate in the face of this mounting aggression if country X attacks them first. On top of all this, imagine that only country Y is portrayed in the media as a problem and that country X is constantly given a free pass to do whatever it pleases.

Now replace country X with the United States of America and country Y with North Korea to realize there is no need to imagine such a world. It is the world we already live in.

As true as all of this is, the problem is constantly framed as one caused by North Korea alone, not the United States. “How to Deal With North Korea,” the Atlantic explains. “What Can Trump Do About North Korea?” the New York Times asks. “What Can Possibly Be Done About North Korea,” the Huffington Post queries. Time provides 6 experts discussing “How We Can Solve the Problem” (of North Korea). “North Korea – what can the outside world do?” asks the BBC.

That being said, some reports have framed the issue in completely different terms. In an article entitled “The Game is Over and North Korea Has Won,” Foreign Policy’s Jeffrey Lewis explains that the United States should accept North Korea’s nuclear ambitions and pursue other courses of action:

“The big question is where to go from here. Some of my colleagues still think the United States might persuade North Korea to abandon, or at least freeze, its nuclear and missile programs. I am not so sure. I suspect we might have to settle for trying to reduce tensions so that we live long enough to figure this problem out. But there is only one way to figure out who is right: Talk to the North Koreans.” [emphasis added]

Lewis explains further:

“The other options are basically terrible. There is no credible military option. North Korea has some unknown number of nuclear-armed missiles, maybe 60, including ones that can reach the United States; do you really think U.S. strikes could get all of them? That not a single one would survive to land on Seoul, Tokyo, or New York? Or that U.S. missile defenses would work better than designed, intercepting not most of the missiles aimed at the United States, but every last one of them? Are you willing to bet your life on that?” [emphasis added]

It’s also worth mentioning that Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Paul Selva, already testified to the Senate Armed Services Committee that experts tell him North Korea does not have “the capacity to strike the U.S. with any degree of accuracy or reasonable confidence of success.”

Compare these observations to every single keyboard warrior on Facebook and Twitter who thinks the United States has a duty to defend itself from – and destroy – this rogue state, which is currently attacking no one else nor has any underlying reason to (especially considering that South Korea is open to talking with the North rather than relying solely on a military confrontation).

The problem with the mind-numbingly militarized approach to this conundrum is that it completely ignores the historical factors that led the United States to this crossroads in the first place.

In the early 1950s, the U.S. bombed North Korea into complete oblivion, destroying over 8,700 factories, 5,000 schools, 1,000 hospitals, 600,000 homes, and eventually killing off perhaps 20 percent of the country’s population. As noted by the Asia Pacific Journal, the U.S. dropped so many bombs that they eventually ran out of targets to hit:

“By the fall of 1952, there were no effective targets left for US planes to hit. Every significant town, city and industrial area in North Korea had already been bombed. In the spring of 1953, the Air Force targeted irrigation dams on the Yalu River, both to destroy the North Korean rice crop and to pressure the Chinese, who would have to supply more food aid to the North. Five reservoirs were hit, flooding thousands of acres of farmland, inundating whole towns and laying waste to the essential food source for millions of North Koreans.” [emphasis added]

In its isolated state, the North Korean leadership that held office after the end of the Korean war requested nuclear weapons technology from both China and the Soviet Union. After the collapse of the Soviet empire, spearheaded by the U.S., North Korea began to deteriorate even further, as it had relied heavily on Soviet aid. Following a famine in the nineties that reportedly killed as many as 500,000 civilians, North Korea was left to its own devices as it watched its southern neighbors prosper. It began to rapidly accelerate its nuclear weapons program.

Under the Clinton administration, a deal was struck with North Korea that aimed to ensure the communist nation would eventually freeze and gradually dismantle its nuclear weapons development program.

George W. Bush intentionally derailed this deal in a manner similar to what President Trump is currently doing in his attempts to derail the nuclear deal arranged with Iran in 2015. Then, to make matters worse, the Bush administration accused Iraq of having weapons of mass destruction and invaded the country in 2003, plunging the country into a state of chaos even though Iraq clearly possessed no nuclear weapons.

This decision – coupled with Barack Obama and his NATO cohorts’ decision to invade Libya in 2011 — taught North Korea a very valuable lesson about what can happen to an adversarial state if they give up their nuclear weapons program. This isn’t conjecture. It has come straight from the horse’s mouth.

“The Libyan crisis is teaching the international community a grave lesson,” which was that Libya’s decision to abandon its weapons programs in 2003, applauded by George W. Bush, had been “an invasion tactic to disarm the country” – according to North Korea’s Foreign Ministry.

The invasion of Iraq was quite clearly tied to natural resources and money, as was the decision to invade and topple Libya. Lo and behold, North Korea is reportedly sitting on a stockpile of minerals worth trillions of dollars. It also happens to have only one real major ally: America’s economic thorn in the backside, China, a country the U.S. has had a specific containment policy towards.

It is quite clear that threats of provocation to what is becoming a rapidly growing nuclear-armed state, which is allied to another nuclear-armed state, have nothing to do with concerns about global security or human rights. China has already warned that their leadership will only pick sides in the conflict if the United States strikes first. A simple solution, therefore, would be for the U.S. not to strike at all.

It is for these reasons that Donald Trump stated in 1999 that the U.S. should negotiate with North Korea as a first resort. Now that he is in the nuclear-code hot seat with a decaying presidency on the verge of failure, he has changed his approach.

People sitting behind their computer screens claiming the U.S. should have blown up North Korea a long time ago fail to realize that the U.S. already did just that, as well as the fact that the U.S. has specifically cultivated the conditions under which a state like North Korea would want to acquire nuclear weapons in the first place. These people also fail to realize that the U.S. and South Korea simulate an invasion of North Korea every year and have also planned to simulate nuclear strikes, as well. In its regular joint exercises, the U.S. has even flown bombers low to the ground on the North-South border, dropping 2,000-pound (900 kilograms) bombs.

Who is provoking whom?

If you find yourself fearing North Korea, try to imagine how North Koreans feel about your current and former governments.

No one is pretending Kim Jong-un is a saint, but he is currently bombing no one, and any attempt on his part at bombing America’s allies or bases would see his inevitable assassination and the destruction of his entire regime. This war would also create a refugee crisis that makes the current crisis pale in comparison.

North Korea’s nuclear strategy is a deterrent strategy only. The country has learned many lessons from its own past, as well as lessons from the U.S.-led invasions of Iraq, Libya, and other weaker nations — and in response, it has made it a pointed policy to never succumb the fate of these aforementioned countries.

Anyone who is able to absorb and digest all of this information and still demand war between these two countries needs to pack their bags and sign up for the military with the specific intention of being on the front lines of this battle. If you believe in this war that genuinely, you need to be prepared to fight it.

Anything else is pure cowardice, glorified by sheer ignorance of this conflict’s historical background, its geopolitical concerns, and the humanitarian crisis it would create.

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*  Zie o.a.: 'Raketwetenschappers over Noord-Korea's kernraketten bluf en angstzaaierij in de VS......'

** Zie: 'VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen..........'

Zie ook: 'North Korea: Killer Sanctions Imposed By The UN Security Council'

        en: 'North Korea Does Not Trust America for a Pretty Good Reason'

        en: 'Only Morons Believe What The US Government Says About North Korea'

        en: 'Noord-Korea een gevaar voor de VS? Daar is N-K niet voor nodig: de VS besmet haar eigen burgers met radioactieve straling!'

        en: 'VS dreigt Noord-Korea met wat je niet anders dan een nucleaire aanval kan noemen........'

        en: 'Noord-Korea: VS negeert de waarschuwing van China niet door te gaan, met voorgenomen militaire oefening tegen N-K.......'

        en: 'NBC presentator geeft toe dat het de taak van NBC is de mensen doodsbang te maken voor Noord-Korea....... Ofwel: 'fake news' op en top!!'
 
       en: 'Noord-Koreaanse raketten zijn waardeloos, aldus VS generaal Selva.......'

       en: 'Noord-Korea en de VS: de planning van de VS om Rusland en China aan te vallen met kernraketten........'

       en: 'Noord-Koreaanse raket zorgt voor belachelijke massahysterie.......'

       en: 'Noord-Korea een agressor? Hier de feiten!'

 Toegevoegd op 18 januari 2018: wat betreft het dreigen met kernwapens en de ontwikkeling van nieuwe kernwapens zie:      

              'VS sluit een nucleaire aanval niet uit als een mogelijke reactie op een 'cyberaanval.......''

        en: 'VS op weg naar daadwerkelijk gebruik van het kernwapen..............'

        en: 'Trumps atoomknop is groter dan die van Kim Yung-un, bovendien werkt de VS knop wel....... ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!'

        en: 'Trumps uitlating over de atoomknop en de onverschilligheid bij zijn achterban, een dictatuur waardig.........'

       en: 'VN chef Guterrez geeft alarmcode rood af voor de wereld in 2018 en niet alleen vanwege het milieu of klimaat......' (deze link was wel eerder opgenomen in dit artikel)

       en: 'NAVO oefent op een nucleaire aanval tegen 'een denkbeeldige vijand', ofwel Rusland..........'

Noord-Koreaanse raketten zijn waardeloos, aldus VS generaal Selva.......

Eindelijk na alle hysterie over de raketten die Noord-Korea heeft afgeschoten, heeft VS generaal Paul Selva voor een Senaatscommissie toegegeven dat de raketten van Noord-Korea uiterst ineffectief zijn, m.a.w. de raketten zijn waardeloos en kunnen geen strategische doelen in de VS raken. Sterker nog: de bewering dat Noord-Korea met raketten Alaska of andere delen van de VS zou kunnen raken, zijn zwaar overdreven........

Jammer dat James Holbrooks, de schrijver van het onderstaande Anti-Media artikel, niet wijst op het feit dat Noord-Korea niet eens een atoombom heeft, laat staan dat ze kernkoppen kunnen maken, die een raket zou kunnen vervoeren......

Na een ondergrondse kernproef kan tot een aantal dagen na de proef radioactieve straling worden gemeten, boven de plek waar de proef plaatsvond. Deze straling is te meten met satellieten, echter tot dusver is er nooit radioactieve straling gemeld boven de plek waar de kernproef plaatsvond, reken maar dat als dit wel het geval was geweest, dit het nieuws zou hebben gehaald! Kortom: Noord-Korea heeft niet eens een atoombom. Overigens zou je dit ook kunnen afleiden uit de stelling van de VS, dat Noord-Korea moet ophouden met het ontwikkelen van kernwapens.........

Deskundigen hebben al vaker gesteld, dat je met een gigantische hoeveelheid springstof een ondergrondse kernproef kan nabootsen, inclusief de aardbeving die de kracht van een atoombom aangeeft.....

Holbrooks wijt de wat soepeler opstelling van de VS o.a. aan de onderhandelingen van de VS met China over de import van Chinese goederen op de VS markt en uiteraard het omgekeerde. Zo zou Trump geïmporteerd staal uit China extra willen belasten. Bovendien is de nieuwe Zuid-Koreaanse president, Moon Jae-in, voor onderhandelingen met Noord-Korea, i.p.v. het opleggen van sancties en het dreigen met militair geweld, een zaak waar de VS rekening mee heeft te houden.

Het is te hopen dat Moon Jae-in een eind maakt aan het jaarlijkse treiteren van Noord-Korea, met grootschalige militaire oefeningen langs de grens van Noord-Korea en de territoriale wateren van dat land door de VS en Zuid-Korea....... Oefeningen waarbij ook raketten worden afgeschoten..... Vergeet niet dat de wil van Noord-Korea om een atoombom te ontwikkelen voortkomt uit angst voor de agressie van de VS, een angst die allesbehalve onzinnig is gezien het aantal illegale oorlogen dat de VS sinds 1945 is begonnen..........

The Latest: US Official Admits North Korean Missiles Aren’t Threat to America

July 19, 2017 at 2:24 pm

Written by James Holbrooks

(ANTIMEDIA) — Geopolitical moves are being made on the issue of North Korea. A day after South Korea’s new government offered to hold military talks with its neighbor to the North, the United States’ second-highest ranking military official admitted Tuesday that North Korean missiles lack the accuracy to effectively target U.S. cities.

On Monday, South Korea’s defense ministry proposed that representatives from both the South and North Korean militaries meet at the border village of Panmunjom in North Korea for talks

“We make the proposal for a meeting…aimed at stopping all hostile activities that escalate military tension along the land border,” South Korea’s defense ministry said in a statement.


The man in charge of North Korean affairs, unification minister Cho Myoung-gyon, said his country “would not seek collapse of the North or unification through absorbing the North” and suggested a positive response from Kim Jong-un’s government would represent a show of good faith.


“North Korea should respond to our sincere proposals if it really seeks peace on the Korean Peninsula,” Cho said, adding that if “North Korea chooses the right path, we would like to open the door for a brighter future for North Korea, together, by cooperating with the international community.”


The defense ministry’s overture falls in line with the approach advocated by new South Korean president Moon Jae-in, who supports diplomatic talks with the North led by South Korea.

Recently, ahead of the G20 summit in Germany, Moon stated that “the need for dialogue” with North Korea is “more pressing than ever before” because the situation had “reached the tipping point of the vicious cycle of military escalation.”

North Korea has yet to respond to the South’s proposal.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the primary driver of the “evil North Korea” narrative, United States appeared to go against the grain and actually downplayed the effectiveness of Kim Jong-un’s nuclear weapons program — or, at least, one senior official defense official did. From Reuters:

“North Korea does not have the ability to strike the United States with ‘any degree of accuracy’ and while its missiles have the range, they lack the necessary guidance capability, the vice chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Tuesday.”

Speaking before the Senate Armed Services Committee, General Paul Selva said North Korea’s July 4 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test showed that the country has no hope of hitting a U.S. target with any “reasonable confidence of success” and that recent talk about its ability to strike Alaska or the Pacific Northwest is overblown:

“What the experts tell me is that the North Koreans have yet to demonstrate the capacity to do the guidance and control that would be required.”

While the general’s admission isn’t on the same level as the actual act of diplomacy just demonstrated by South Korea, the fact that the U.S. military is walking back — even if only just a step or two — a narrative it fought so hard to establish is itself worthy of commentary.

So what gives? Why, in the last two days, have both the U.S. and ally South Korea suddenly taken a softer line — again, in their own ways — on the North Korea issue? Are all parties concerned about to knock off the rhetoric and allow the Hermit Kingdom to continue to fire missiles into the sea?

Not likely. As with most other issues of geopolitical significance in that region of the world, these moves likely have far more to do with China.

On Wednesday, President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet in Washington, D.C., for annual bilateral talks, this year dubbed the “U.S.-China Comprehensive Economic Dialogue.” It will be the third meeting between the two men, after Xi’s visit to Mar-a-Lago three months ago and their discussions on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Germany.

Recently, Trump reignited concern over a trade war between the U.S. and China when he said he was considering slapping import tariffs on steel. But these kinds of tactics are nothing new ahead of economic negotiations, as the Washington Post noted last Friday:

“In 1981, the Reagan administration convinced Japan to reduce the number of cars it was exporting to the United States in a bid to boost the U.S. auto sector. In 1984, the administration used the tactic again with the steel industry, as it told dozens of countries to either limit their steel shipments to the United States or lose access to the American market.”

In an article published Sunday titled “U.S.-China trade talks sputtering at 100-day deadline,” Reuters outlined how results from economic negotiations between the two countries have been less than encouraging since Trump and Xi first met at Mar-a-Lago. The general consensus is that Donald Trump needs a major win with China to prove he’s sticking to the “America first” guns that got him into the White House.

Noting that “North Korea has cast a long shadow over the relationship” between Trump and Xi, Reuters points out that the Hermit Kingdom and its nuclear weapons program have been a hindrance to cooperation for the U.S. president:

“Trump has linked progress in trade to China’s ability to rein in North Korea, which counts on Beijing as its chief friend and ally.”

On Tuesday, the Associated Press also highlighted how Trump has used the issue of North Korea as a bargaining chip at the negotiating table with China:

“As a presidential candidate, Trump attacked China for refusing to pressure Pyongyang to back off from developing nuclear weapons. After the Mar-a-Lago summit, though, Trump praised Beijing for agreeing to help deal with North Korea. As a reward, he abandoned his vow to accuse China of manipulating its currency to benefit Chinese exporters.”

So it may be that this one-two punch from the United States and ally South Korea was a coordinated effort to ease tensions and create an atmosphere conducive to cooperation ahead of critical negotiations between the U.S. and China.

It may be that the Trump administration is signaling that it would be willing to back off on pressuring China to rein in Kim Jong-un if China is willing to make concessions on the economic front — and give Trump the win he needs.

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Zie ook: 'Noord-Korea: VS negeert de waarschuwing van China niet door te gaan, met voorgenomen militaire oefening tegen N-K.......'

       en: 'Noord-Korea verkeerd begrepen: het land wordt bedreigd door de VS, dat alleen deze eeuw al minstens 4 illegale oorlogen begon........'
       en: 'NBC presentator geeft toe dat het de taak van NBC is de mensen doodsbang te maken voor Noord-Korea....... Ofwel: 'fake news' op en top!!'
       en: 'Noord-Koreaanse raketten zijn waardeloos, aldus VS generaal Selva.......'
       en: 'Noord-Korea en de VS: de planning van de VS om Rusland en China aan te vallen met kernraketten........'