A Peace that Won't Be

The thaw between South and North Korea and a possible, planned meeting between Trump and Kim Jong Un has been big news lately. 

South Korea's President Moon and Kim have met, and promises were made to improve relations, and end North Korea's nuclear testing.

To the starry-eyed, it looks like the two Koreas, along with the US, will finally make peace and stop threatening each other.

But let's not forget that the South Korean regime, regardless of its smiles, is descended from the right-wing dictatorship of Syngman Rhee, the ex-Japanese collaborator-turned-puppet of the US military occupation forces. People with the same mentality are still in power in South Korea, and it is doubtful that they will allow any improvement in relations. Like their US counterparts, these right-wing South Korean Rhee acolytes have made their fortunes and careers on having North Korea as an enemy.

It’s difficult to believe that there will be any reconciliation/peace/unity breaking out. These things go against US interests of countering China. The US wants a permanent military presence in Korea to serve as a base of operations against whoever the US deems an enemy for whatever reason.

Trump's eagerness for peace is not serious, regardless of how many Tweets to the contrary he sends. Let's not forget that this is the same guy who a month ago bombed a country based on false pretexts, and has recently appointed John Bolton and Mike Pompeo to important posts. These two misfits were behind the illegal and criminal war on Iraq and the torture scandals. There is nothing good to expect from the Trump regime at all.

History by now has shown us that once the US occupies an area, they don’t leave. It’s been 73 years since WW2 ended, yet the US military is still occupying Germany. This occupation has now spread to Eastern Europe under the guise of ‘countering Russian aggression.’ It’s been 15 years since the Iraq invasion, yet US is still there, with no signs it will ever leave.

The US has gotten too entrenched in South Korea to just get up and leave, regardless of what NK will do. It serves US interests to be there, and the interests of the military-industrial complex, not to mention the career prospects of all the US generals, officers, and CIA spooks. Too many careers and paychecks are riding on the US remaining on the Korean peninsula, and everywhere else they’re squatting.

Even if Kim Jong Un ends up meeting Trump, it will go down something like this, or close to it:

1. Kim and Trump sit down to talk

2. Trump makes outrageous demands that he knows NK won’t accept, while he offers nothing worthwhile in return

3. Kim says NO. Then he counters that US must sign a permanent peace treaty and end all acts of aggression, end to sanctions, including military exercises close to NK’s borders and/or removal of US troops from SK in return for complete NK nuclear and missile disarmament

4. SK president sits there like a quiet little vassal with no say-so, and acquiesces to whatever the US says

5. The entire meeting turns into a fiasco, everyone walks out, and tensions not only stay but go up

6. US regime and all western media go into ‘Blame it all on Kim’ overdrive for the failure of the meeting

7. Kim restarts nuke and missile testing and Trump threatens military action

This is what we can expect. And the blame for any failures will rest on the US, which will refuse to give up an inch, but will demand a mile from NK.

The US establishment doesn’t want peace on the Korean peninsula. They most likely want a Libya-type scenario.

The meeting will be used to cajole NK into giving up its main deterrent, disarming, letting in ‘inspectors’ who will most likely feature spies from every god-damn US intelligence agency in existence. These people will look under every rock, identify any and all important targets for bombing, report back to their US regime bosses, who will then make up some false flag implicating NK, then attack NK-which at that point will be defenseless.

What the US ultimately wants is to get rid of Kim Jong Un, annex NK by force to SK, then move up US troops all the way to the Chinese border.

The US doesn’t honor its treaty commitment. The examples of Iraq, Libya, and Trump’s present threat to walk away from the JCPOA are clear signs that North Korea cannot trust the US.

Kim Jong Un seems to be quite involved in a peaceful solution, and has stopped issuing insults toward the Dotard.

But it is most likely not because sanctions and US threats have worked.

What may be going on here is that China’s Premier Xi had a talk with Kim, and NK was promised very beneficial economic opportunities and OBOR/Silk Road integration in return for doing something to shut the US up, so that sanctions are lifted and the two can get back to business. 

The US regime, Trump, and his deranged walrus mustache advisor won't get anything for free from North Korea. The problem on the Korean peninsula was, is, and will be the US, not NK or Kim. The US doesn’t honor its agreements, so that's one thing that will definitely be a stumbling block.

Even IF the US agrees to make some major concessions that NK could accept, it will most likely be a ruse. What the US may do is make promises to NK, but require that NK first disarm and do whatever the US wants, and only after that the US will deliver on its part. This may take years. But a short while from the deadline, the US will stir up some false flags, and claim that NK is not living up to the agreement-even if NK does-and use that as an excuse to walk away from the agreement, and take military action against NK. 

This type of scenario is very likely, and if there actually is an agreement with NK like this, and the US demands that the UN approve it under Chapter 7 of the UN charter, then the regime change scenario will be guaranteed. 

A prophetic warning of this very possibility has already come from none other than John Bolton, Trump's rabid neo-con national security advisor. He has already stated that a disarmament agreement with North Korea could be based on the disarmament agreement with Libya. And we all know what happened to Libya and its leader Muammar Ghaddafi after he 'disarmed.'

The US establishment is intellectually and morally incapable of making a genuine peace with North Korea without any evil ulterior motives.

The stench of future US betrayal of NK will be thick in the air at whatever venue these two will meet.