3 articles on N. Korea: 30% N. Koreans killed in '50s; CFR Grand Strategy; Long, Dirty History of U.S. Warmongering against North Korea
KNOW THE FACTS: North Korea lost close to 30% of its population as a result of US bombings in the 1950s
'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.'
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The Long, Dirty History of U.S. Warmongering against North Korea
'The Korean War was an asymmetrical conflict in which the United States monopolized the skies, raining down ruin. Four million Koreans—the vast majority of them civilians—were killed. ...... In North Korea where no family was left unscathed by the terroristic violence of the Korean War, anti-Americanism thus cannot be dismissed as state ideology alone.'
'Instability in Korea has, for several decades, lined the pockets of those who profit from the business of war. Indeed, the Korean War rehabilitated a U.S. economy geared, as a result of World War II, toward total war. Seized as opportunity, the war enabled the Truman administration to triple U.S. defense spending and furnished a rationale for the bilateral linking of Asian client states to the United States, and the establishment of what Chalmers Johnson called an “empire of bases” in the Pacific. General James Van Fleet, the commanding officer of UN forces in Korea, described the war as “a blessing” and remarked, “There had to be a Korea either here or some place in the world.”'
'Far from being an intractable foe, North Korea has repeatedly asked the United States to sign a peace treaty that would bring the unresolved Korean War to a long-overdue end.'
'It has also proposed that the United States cease its annual war games with South Korea—games, we must recognize, that involve the simulated invasion and occupation of North Korea, the “decapitation” of its leadership, and rehearsals of a preemptive nuclear strike. In return, North Korea will cap its nuclear weapons testing. China has reiterated this proposal. The United States maintains that its joint war games with South Korea are simply business as usual and has not seen fit to respond.'
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“Dangerous Circumstances”
The Council on Foreign Relations Proposes a New Grand Strategy Towards China
This article cites CFR report to show how the unambiguous reason for US policies in the Asia Pacific is always to maintain “U.S. primacy in Asia”, and the existing “international order” where US hegemony remains unchallenged, by the perceived threat from the growing Chinese power. The stated purpose of “protecting vital US national interests”, is simply euphemism for the economic interests of the extremely wealthy and powerful U.S. plutocracy.
In this endeavor, the countries deemed most important for US purposes of maintaining its “primacy” in Asia over China, are Japan, S. Korea (ROK), Australia and India, in that order. To that end, the strategy “include(s) working with the ROK (and Japan) to develop a comprehensive strategy for regime change in North Korea.”
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Maggie Zhou, PhD
Twitter: @mzhou_us
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