What
Corporate Media Never Tells You About North
Korea
By Joe Clifford
April
30, 2017 "Information
Clearing House"
- There is a great deal of propaganda and
deliberate misinformation about North Korea,
which the public should know. While neocons, a
cheering corporate media, and Deep State, rush
to war with North Korea, information is the
ultimate weapon. For example, did you know that
North Korea, China, and India, are the only
three nations who have committed to a “no
nuclear first” policy. They have pledged never
to use nuclear weapons “first”, but of course
reserve the right to use them if attacked.
How many times has the US threatened to use
nuclear weapons against North Korea? Do you know
that North Korea has repeatedly asked the US to
engage in bi-lateral talks, to cool off the
ever-escalating tension? The offer was flatly
rejected by both Obama and Trump. Can you
resolve differences within your family without
dialog? No dialogue, no peace. Why won’t the US
talk to North Korea?? The neocons, Deep State,
and media argument, insist Kim Jung-ur is
irrational, and therefore you cannot negotiate
with him. A look back at recent history
illustrates the US and its complicit media
demonize anyone we do not like, and the
demonizing usually ends up with a war.
Manuel Noriega in Panama, Saddam Hussein in
Iraq, Libya’s Quaddaffi, and Syria’s Assad,
serve as recent examples. But the demonizing of
Kim Jung -ur continues as we move towards
another war, and once again the public buys into
the myth. There are no western reporters allowed
in North Korea, and since North Korea is a
virtual closed society, one must wonder who
knows what Kim Jung- ur really is like? On the
other hand, some might suggest we have a very
irrational leader in this country. This attitude
of demonizing is akin to the Taliban’s offer to
turn over Osama Bin Laden so many years ago, and
the US, then under Bush, flatly rejected the
Taliban offer saying we don’t talk to such
people. Sixteen years later we are still at war
in Afghanistan. War is the result of failed
diplomacy, or the absence of diplomacy. Perhaps
we did not want diplomacy, perhaps we don’t want
diplomacy now.
Do you know North Korea has agreed to suspend
its nuclear testing if the US agreed to end the
annual war games along the border of North
Korea? You may not know the US conducts war
games that simulate the overthrow of the North
Korean government, and this year there were
almost 400,000 soldiers participating. Did you
know that?? Did you know, this year the games
were given the name “Operation Decapitation” and
were directed against North Korea, and were
designed to simulate the attack and overthrow of
North Korea?
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Do you know the Korean War has never officially
ended because there was no formal truce signed?
This is one of North Korea demands. A final
treaty to end the Korean War was never signed,
because if there was a treaty, the US would have
no legal basis for the occupation of South Korea
with our many military bases. Do you know in
1993 the US announced it was re-targeting
hydrogen bombs from the old USSR to North Korea?
Do you know George Bush called the leader of
North Korea a “pygmy”, and said he wanted to
“topple his regime”? Do you know Bush also
prepared a policy of “preemptive” attack, and
referred to North Korea as a member of the “axis
of evil”? It was shortly thereafter that North
Korea left the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,
and threw out of the country all inspectors.
Neocons, Deep State, and the corporate media,
argue North Korea is a threat to the US, and
just days ago Trump said they were a “threat to
the world”? That is asinine, as Trump’s increase
of 54 billion, is 11 times greater than the
entire North Korean military budget. To suggest
North Korea is a “threat to the US” or the
“world” is either stupidity, or an outright lie,
and yet a CNN poll shows 37% of the US public
believes North Korea is a threat to the US. Who
says propaganda isn’t effective? Do you know the
recent leader of South Korea was impeached for
corruption, and there is a pending election to
decide on new leadership? The opposition party
wants the US out of South Korea, and wants the
THAD missile system just installed by the US,
out.
Theresa May, in Great Britain, shocked many
recently, when she announced she would be
willing to use nuclear weapons in a “first
strike”? Why have we not declared war on
Britain, as Theresa May is apparently a bit
“irrational”? Experts suggest North Korea has
perhaps 8 nuclear weapons, but has no effective
delivery system. The US has 7,000, of which,
many are on North Korea’s border. North Korea
has not invaded or attacked any nation since the
end of the Korean War, while the US has bombed
over 30 countries. How many countries is the US
currently bombing?? Can’t answer? Who is the
aggressor here? Who has refused to “talk” to
North Korea? Who has threatened to use nuclear
weapons repeatedly against North Korea?
Why can’t the US simply sit down and agree to
bi-lateral talks? Is there a logical reason why
this cannot be done? What is there to lose by
such talks? This whole policy of antagonizing,
instead of talking, is insane! We know its
insanity; we don’t know if it is intentional
rejection of diplomacy.
Joe
Clifford lives in Rhode Isalnd
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