North Korea is an evil dictatorship which oppresses and starves its people. It is a danger to the security of the world. It is a nation led by a mad dictator with nuclear weapons who is not afraid to use them. This evil dictator must be stopped before he attacks the US.
These are the paranoid propaganda ramblings that the despicable US regime drills into peoples’ heads day in, day out-without fail.
But such kitschy, Hollywood war B-movie one-liners can only appeal to ignoramuses who don’t know the history of the Korean conflict, and why North Korea is the way it is.
False accusations and propaganda aside, there are things about North Korea that must be known and understood.
The North Korean conflict started as in too many cases up to this day, as a result of US meddling and suppression of the popular will.
After WW2, Kim Il Sung’s anti-occupation revolutionaries swept through the Korean peninsula, achieving victory over the Japanese forces.
Kim Il Sung was, and still is recognized to this day, in both Koreas, as the true leader of the resistance against occupation.
The Korean Workers Party - which exists to this day in North Korea - had overwhelming support among most Koreans. In the elections scheduled after the war, the KWP was poised to win easily.
But then, fearing a victory of communist, Pro-Soviet Kim Il Sung and his movement, the US sent forces onto the Korean peninsula, installed the right-wing dictator Syngman Rhee – ex-Japanese collaborator – as ‘president’ of the ‘Republic of Korea, and had him provoke North Korea with artillery strikes months before North Korean forces launched military operations. (South Korea was subsequently ruled by one US-controlled right-wing dictator after another, and its first elections didn’t happen until 1992. Political repression was common during those years, with US simply ignoring it all).
It was a provocation which the US desired, in the hopes that it would be able to easily defeat the North Korean forces, and establish control over the entire Korean peninsula. This started the Korean War.
But the North Korean forces were formidable, and with Chinese help, the US and their South Korean vassals were beaten back. The US finally settled for an armistice which endures to this day.
After WW2, North Korea steadily developed economically, even beating out South Korea until the 1980s.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, North Korea was left to fend for itself. To protect itself, it started developing a nuclear program, which the west found troublesome.
In 1994, North Korea was promised economic aid and help with its civilian nuclear program, if it signed the NPT and ended its nuclear program.
North Korea agreed to this, but the US and other western countries didn’t keep their promises of assistance. A light-water nuclear reactor which was promised by Bill Clinton never materialized, and the US just stalled by making up more excuses and false accusations against North Korea.
Then came the idiot chimp George W. Bush and his ‘Axis of Evil’ speech. After that, North Korea saw that it was no use to count on the US, which apparently wanted nothing less than regime change in Pyongyang, as it wanted in Iraq, Iran and elsewhere.
North Korea then withdrew from the NPT and restarted its nuclear program. After some years, it managed to build and test a nuclear bomb, and has now developed advanced missile technology capable of targeting and destroying US bases in South Korea, Japan and elsewhere.
Today, North Korea is led by Kim Jong Un. Trump and his neo-con handlers have been having hissy fits over Kim’s missile testing-oblivious to their own and their allies’ missile tests.
The US accuses North Korean government of researching and building nuclear weapons, while ignoring the irony of doing so while US has thousands of nukes in its arsenal.
In the interest of fairness, Chinese and Russian objections to North Korean nuclear and missile tests are also hypocritical since those two nations also possess both.
The image that the western media presents of North Korea is fraudulent.
The videos of crying North Koreans reacting to the death of Kim Jon Il, and praise of Kim Jong Un are not all scripted. There is a level of genuine feeling rooted in cultural practice. Some Asian cultures have professional mourners which are hired by the family to wail and genuflect in front of the remains of a deceased person. Look this up. It is a real practice.
This may not seem real when watched, but the meaning behind it is. We must view the videos of North Koreans wailing, crying, yelling and chanting in this way. It cannot be simply passed off as fake and choreographed for propaganda purposes.
So don’t let the US regime and its huffing and puffing over North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs fool you. The US is scared, and won’t touch North Korea. US knows that it will start a fight it won’t be able to win.
Also, China won’t allow US to do anything, because China knows that the US is using North Korea as a boogeyman to justify its presence in the region as a beachhead against China itself.
All posturing aside, the North Koreans want to talk. Let’s remember that North Korea signed the armistice with the US. It was a bi-lateral agreement. North Korea and the US are the guarantors of this armistice. That’s why North Korea insists on talking directly with the US.
There’s no doubt that North Korea would like to come to some sort of an agreement, and the US regime knows this very well.
Yet US provokes North Korea deliberately, and then uses North Korea’s reaction to scare the world with scary fiction about how ‘dangerous and unstable’ North Korea is.
It’s just another bullshit PR marketing campaign to keep people scared so US defense industry can sell more of its overpriced, overhyped junk to Japan, Taiwan and South Korea.
In February, the US regime cancelled the visas of North Korean diplomats who were about to come to the US for talks, effectively blowing an opportunity to ease tensions.
North Korea has learned its lesson by watching US behavior in the last 20 years.
North Korea has gotten the message, loud and clear, that disarming, UN inspections, signing treaties and trusting US ‘promises’ leads to invasion and regime change regardless of what it does . North Koreans see that by doing what the west – and their henchmen at the UN or IAEA - want them to is just a way to weaken them, thereby smoothing the way to an eventual invasion.
That’s why North Korea is arming itself to the teeth. And this is a good thing!
Whatever problems North Korea has, it alone needs to solve them. It should also be left alone to progress, without threats and artificial road-blocks put up by the west. It’s none of the US/NATO’s/EU’s business how North Korea is run.
It must also be understood that the damage the US inflicted on the Korean peninsula during the Korean war, where no house over two stories was left standing, is still remembered by North Koreans.
Also, if North Korean behavior seems paranoid, keep in mind that the country is still technically at war, therefore it will enforce measures which seem draconian. A peace treaty would bring this to an end, but the US doesn’t seem to want one.
North Korea and Kim Jong Un should be applauded, especially by all the small, weak nations that have been stomped on by the US and their vassals.
Here we have plucky and small North Korea, and their young leader who has big enough balls to kick some dirt into Uncle Scam’s bloodshot eyes, show him the finger, and get away with it; with the US regime too scared to do anything about it. This is what drives the US regime crazy. The US regime knows that it cannot touch North Korea, lest it wants to get slapped hard back to Hawaii.
That’s what lay behind the idiot Trumpoline’s decision to send an aircraft carrier to South Korea. It was just a cover for the helplessness the US establishment feels. Like a rattlesnake, it was just huffing and puffing, nothing more.
More countries should take North Korea’s example and develop effective security measures to protect themselves from US-style ‘democracy,’ which only frees one from real freedom and prosperity.
Sadly, there are too many small countries in the world that have been enslaved and bought off, cheap, by the US.
It gives one hope to know that there are small countries like North Korea who are successfully resisting the evil US Empire.
All luck and power to them!
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