Gisteren plaatste Anti-Media een artikel van Darius Shahtahmasebi, waarin hij opmerkte, dat Noord-Korea meermaals heeft aangeboden met het kernwapenprogramma te stoppen, iets waar geen belangstelling voor was in het Witte Huis en het Pentagon........
'Diezelfde belangstelling' ontbreekt ook bij de reguliere westerse media, men stelt doodleuk dat Noord-Korea niet wenst te onderhandelen en dat het land daarom onberekenbaar en gevaarlijk is.........
Overigens heeft ook de regering van 'vredesduif' Obama geweigerd te overleggen met China en Noord-Korea over het bevriezen van het kernwapenprogramma...... Ja u leest het goed: ook China heeft de VS verzocht, om samen met een VS / Chinese delegatie te onderhandelen met Noord-Korea..... U weet uiteraard wat het overgrote deel van de westerse politici en media ons voorhouden: China zou veel te weinig doen tegen de 'Noord-Koreaanse agressie....'
Kortom ook hier wordt u door de westerse reguliere media besodemieterd met ''fake news' en dikke leugens.....
Shahtahmasebi vestigt volkomen terecht nog eens de aandacht op het feit dat Noord-Korea alle reden heeft, bang te zijn voor het uiterst agressieve VS, de reden waarom het land atoomwapens wil hebben...... Zo kwam 20% van de Noord-Koreaanse bevolking om bij VS bombardementen tijdens de Koreaanse oorlog en begint de VS de ene illegale oorlog na de andere........
Media Silence: North Korea Has Repeatedly Offered to Give up Their Nukes
September
7, 2017 at 8:03 am
Written
by Darius
Shahtahmasebi
(ANTIMEDIA Op-ed) — As
the mass
media and
the establishment
figures who
keep mainstream outlets afloat continue
to beat the drums of war against North Korea, little attention is
being paid to one crucial detail regarding the current crisis
engulfing the Korean peninsula.
You
wouldn’t know it if you were to turn on your television every day
or simply skim
the media’s headlines,
but North Korea has continuously offered to
freeze its nuclear program. The very threat we are continuously told
to fear could be immediately neutralized but is instead repeatedly
rejected by the United States.
However,
prominent media outlets such as the Washington
Post continue to
tell a different story, namely that:
“[North
Korean dictator Kim Jong-un] has shown no interest in talks — he
won’t even set foot in China, his biggest patron. Even if
negotiations took place, the current regime has made clear that ‘it
will never place its self-defensive nuclear deterrence on the
negotiating table, as
one envoy recently put it.”
“There’s
of course a significant difference between North
Korea saying it will never negotiate to halt or eliminate its nuclear
weapons program, and that it will never negotiate as long as the U.S.
continues to threaten it…The reality is that North
Korea is saying that, under certain conditions, it
will put its nuclear weapons on the table.” [emphasis
added]
Not
only does the media continue to misinform the public on this issue,
but as Noam Chomsky explained in an interview with Democracy!
Now,
the United States continues to categorically reject North Korea’s
proposal:
“There
is one proposal that’s ignored. You see a mention of it now and
then. It’s a pretty simple proposal. Remember the goal is to get
North Korea to freeze its weapons systems – weapons and missile
systems. One proposal is to accept their offer to do that. Sounds
simple, they’ve made a proposal – China and North Korea –
proposed to freeze the North Korean missile and nuclear weapons
systems and the U.S.
instantly rejected it. And you can’t blame that on Trump, Obama did
the same thing, a couple of years ago. Same offer was presented – I
think it was 2015 – the Obama administration instantly rejected
it.”
Why
would they do that? Why fear North Korea’s nuclear weapons
capabilities but then reject a proposal to freeze their production?
As Chomsky explains further:
“The
reason is that it calls for a quid pro quo.
It says in return the United States should put an end to threatening
military maneuvers on North Korea’s borders, which happen to
include under Trump, sending of nuclear-capable
B-52s flying
right near the border. Maybe Americans don’t remember very well but
North Koreans have a memory of not too long ago when North
Korea was absolutely flattened –
literally – by
American bombing. There was literally no
targets left.” [emphasis
added]
In
the early 1950s, the U.S. relentlessly bombed North
Korea, destroying over
8,700 factories, 5,000 schools, 1,000 hospitals, 600,000 homes,
and eventually
killing off
as much as 20 percent of the country’s population. As the Asia
Pacific Journal has
noted, the U.S. did, indeed, drop so many bombs that they eventually
ran out of targets to hit and bombed the irrigation systems, instead:
“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]
Despite
the people and leadership of North Korea knowing
this history and
the history of other like-minded
states who
became easy targets for the U.S. military upon dismantling their
weapons programs, North Korea is still to this day offering this
proposal to freeze its program.
“North
Korea’s proclamations have been closely
tracked by
Robert Carlin, currently a visiting scholar at Stanford University’s
Center for International Security and Cooperation and formerly head
of the Northeast Asia Division in the State Department’s
intelligence arm. Carlin has visited North Korea over 30 times.
“Via
email, Carlin described how it is difficult but critical to
accurately decode North Korean communications. ‘Observers dismiss
as unimportant what the North Koreans say,’ Carlin writes, and
‘therefore don’t read it carefully, except of course if it is
colorful, fiery language that makes for lovely headlines. Some of
what the North says is simply propaganda and can be read with one eye
closed. Other things are written and edited very carefully, and need
to be read very carefully. And then, having been read, they need to
be compared with past statements, and put in context.’”
The media’s
insistence that
North Korea will never give up its weapons systems is completely
disingenuous when one reads the entire context of the statements
offered by Kim Jong-un’s government. On July 4, Kim’s statement
read as follows:
“[T]he
DPRK would neither put its nukes and ballistic rockets on the table
of negotiations in any case nor flinch even an inch from the road of
bolstering the nuclear force chosen by itself unless the
U.S. hostile policy and nuclear threat to the DPRK are definitely
terminated.” [emphasis
added]
Quid
pro quo.
This
is a deal-breaker for the U.S. even though it would undoubtedly
diffuse the entire situation and provide the region with at least a
brief period of stability.
The
U.S., together with South Korea, simulates an
invasion of North Korea every year. In Donald Trump’s first six
months in office, he dropped over
20,650 bombs in approximately seven countries, which killed
thousands of civilians.
By comparison, Kim Jong-un bombs the
ocean.
No
matter how objectively you look at it, North Korea has a genuine
reason to want to be prepared in the face of American aggression. But
a military strike option to counter any potential North Korean threat
is not the only option and, further, is almost certainly
the worst option on the table.
After
the failures and crimes of U.S. politicians and the military in Iraq,
Libya, Yemen, and Afghanistan — to name a few — we should be
demanding that our world leaders try the diplomatic option advanced
by the North Korean regime to the fullest extent in order to avoid a
potential nuclear holocaust and the deaths of millions of innocent
civilians.
Zie ook: 'Putin waarschuwt voor een planetaire nucleaire catastrofe en roept om vreedzame diplomatie met Noord-Korea'
en: 'Noord-Korea een agressor? Hier de feiten!'
en: 'Trump dreigt Noord-Korea volledig te vernietigen, mocht de VN niet optreden tegen dat land........'
en: 'Noord-Koreaanse raket zorgt voor belachelijke massahysterie.......'
en: '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: '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: 'Korea, Afghanistan and the Never Ending War Trap' (met daaronder een mogelijkheid tot vertaling)
