Why is North Korea Being So Unreasonable?

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On April 28, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told the U.N. that North Korea “must dismantle its nuclear missile programs” before the US “can even consider talks.”*

Sounds reasonable.

Why hasn’t the Kim Jong-Un regime responded with open arms and shouts of joy for this generous and fair-minded proposal from Uncle Sam?

Maybe it is because North Korea not only has first-hand knowledge of US “diplomacy,” but it can point to the grisly consequences that happen to regimes that do not have nuclear capabilities when they fall out of favor with Washington war mongers.  Serbia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria are just some recent examples.

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Nor does North Korea have to look around the globe for what the US does to nations without nuclear arsenals, but can recall events which took place not so far away.  For more than a decade, America mercilessly pulverized the little, defenseless country of Vietnam.  Despite the destruction and mass murder inflicted, it was to no avail except, of course, to line the pockets of arms manufactures while American citizens were drained of their wealth and blood.

Or simply, Kim Jong-Un can look at his nation’s own history and see how the US treated it prior to it becoming nuclear.  In the “police action” of 1950-53, American coalition forces killed over 3 million North Koreans and dropped more bombs on the country then were used on Japan in World War II according to international war crimes lawyer Christopher Black.**

And, why would North Korea or, for that matter, anyone else have any faith in diplomatic agreements with the US which consistently violates terms of international accords and often complains afterwards when agreements are reached.  The latest example is President Trump carping that Iran is not living up to the “spirit” of the nuclear deal concluded under the Obummer Administration and signed off on by six major world powers.

North Korea, as well as the rest of the world, which is not bribed or threatened by the US Deep State, is certainly aware that the two American-Iraqi Wars had their origins due to American duplicity.  While it originally gave Saddam Hussein permission to intervene in Kuwait, the US then reneged blaming the Iraqi strongman which thus laid the groundwork for his murder and the country’s destruction.

Not only can North Korea look to the murderous and duplicitous US foreign policy record, but it can point to how the American state has killed its own citizens from its involvement in the take down of the World Trade Center, to the gassing and slaughter of men, women and children at Waco, Texas.  Moreover, the federal government and now local authorities are terrorizing their citizens with increasing regularity via a number of false flag events and drills.

By all means, the Kim Jong-Un regime should come to its senses and acquiesce to US demands.

Unfortunately, because it is an authoritarian society based on the immoral and economically unworkable system of communism, North Korea is unable to make an ethical case against the hypocrisy of the US which accuses Syria and others of human rights violations, yet has allowed the slaughter of innocent babies of some 40 million since the legalization of abortion in 1973.  Moreover, in another societal-wrecking and depraved act, the US Supreme Court has sanctioned sodomy, one of the four sins that cry to heaven for vengeance.

While no single entity can militarily challenge US hegemony, a reversal of the murderous ways of American foreign policy will only come about through a change in ideology on the home front.  Once the justification for empire is debunked in the court of public opinion, the mobilization of anti-war/anti-empire movement can commence.

After generations have been inculcated by the media, public schools, colleges/universities and the government about the glories of the US military, it is unlikely that there will be any paradigm shift in American foreign policy matters anytime soon.  Only an economic collapse or severe enough financial panic will force the US to pull back on its overseas adventurism.

In the meantime, if Kim Jong-Un intends to survive and keep his country from resembling Iraq or Syria, he should maintain his “unreasonable” stance when the likes of Rex Tillerson demand that North Korea disarm.

*Tyler Durden.  “Trump Slams ‘Disrespectful’ North Korea After Unsuccessful Missile-Test, Warns Situation is ‘Bad.’”  28 April 2017. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-04-28/north-korea-test-fires-another-ballistic-missile

**Christopher Black.  “North Korea: The Grand Deception Revealed.” New Eastern Outlook.  3 March 2017.   http://journal-neo.org/2017/03/13/north-korea-the-grand-deception-revealed/

 

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CCRider
CCRider
May 1, 2017 8:23 am

Maybe some North Korean honcho once talked to an American Indian about the U.S. government’s record on keeping their word.

kokoda - the most deplorable
kokoda - the most deplorable
  CCRider
May 1, 2017 9:14 am

Some years back, China had 8,000 ’employees’ posting in any form of media to influence the Gov’t stance.

There is not question that the US has its own ’employees’ situated to influence specific agenda items.

In addition, there is the occasional SJW trying their moronic best to do same.

Capn Mike
Capn Mike
  kokoda - the most deplorable
May 1, 2017 2:53 pm

Hasbara, anyone?? McFly?? Bueller??

Ray
Ray
May 1, 2017 8:53 am

I have begun to wonder if North Korea isn’t a paper tiger. If their antiquated military isn’t all just a bluff and if “The largest stockpile of____, or “the largest minefield” or “the largest___ isn’t more BS being spread by the military industrial complex in order to lead America into another endless Neo-Con war. The north Koreans are acting for all the world like a scared kid trying to bluff the playground bully with tales of violence they cannot deliver. No one has gotten a look inside North Korea in 60 years. So I have to say to the CIA provided “information” on the North’s military “Yeh…How do you know that?” and in truth they don’t know. Only guess at what I think is a bluff.

GilbertS
GilbertS
  Ray
May 1, 2017 5:20 pm

Yeah, it’s the world’s biggest antique Soviet military collection. I believe they passed the point of diminishing returns, and they know it, many years ago and they just scare the world with threats and noise, knowing ANY concession is better than what they would have gotten without blustering. Since most people don’t understand Korea, the military, or much of anything else, this act just keeps working. We write them off as nuts and they get to enjoy some fuel oil, peaceful atomic development, or whatever.

Robert E. Moran
Robert E. Moran
May 1, 2017 9:21 am

Spot on without question.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
May 1, 2017 10:00 am

Kim Jong Un is going to blow up the world if we don’t gave him… Ten MILLION DOLLARS!

kokoda - the most deplorable
kokoda - the most deplorable
  Iska Waran
May 1, 2017 10:38 am

Get Bill Clinton to save the day. Besides the cash, he can provide Kimmy with 700,000 barrels of Oil.

travis
travis
  Iska Waran
May 1, 2017 9:06 pm

10 million? We give them 20 billion a year in aid

Iska Waran
Iska Waran
  travis
May 1, 2017 11:35 pm

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hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
May 1, 2017 11:03 am

See, here’s the problem with falsehoods- eventually people will see through them.

I was watching some anti-NK propaganda film in Netflix a year or so ago and in one eye-opening scene it featured a room full of late teen/early twenties Korean women bopping around their cubicles and on a green screen stage at some studio that produces propaganda to blast into NK.

For the first thirty minutes of the film we were shown various shots of barbed wire, stern-faced, automatic weapons bearing NK soldiers, more barbed wire, watch towers, big cannons, military parades with rockets and tanks and swarms of well practiced soldiers marching in lockstep with a never ending narration about how mean and awful and draconian and tyrannical and militant and wary and suspicious and locked-down NK was and how dissidents and critics were tortured and imprisoned in a fortress of a nation who lined it’s border with land mines and more concertina wire and LP’s and OP’s and wiretaps and spies and AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! it was like living in a rat cage at the lab.

BUT, every single one of those petite little Asian girls dressed in their high heels and western style short skirts and midriff exposing crop tops and hairstyles and makeup were all recent escapees from the prison colony we call North Korea.

We’ve been told that one couldn’t break a kimche fart without the full force of the SSDNK coming down on them but here was evidence of not one, not two, not three lucky beyond belief girls, but a full studio full of them having the time of their lives. What about the families they left behind? I thought they’d all be shot or hanged? No one was looking too concerned about them, nor about the people seeing their broadcasts in NK identifying them as they put on their hoochie mama shows for the People’s Prisoners up north, enticing them to flood southward to the ever present promise of nubile things in push up bras and spanx.

How tough can it be if the all female cast of a teen flick can prance across the border unmolested? And the way they were behaving, the way they acted didn’t give the impression of recently starved and tortured gulag detainees after an arduous trek across no-man’s-land leaving vulnerable family behind to suffer torture for their betrayal, but more like the crowd out in front of an NSYNC concert hoping to get back stage passes.

The story doesn’t hold water.

Dutchman
Dutchman
May 1, 2017 11:16 am

Kim is a psychopath, he’s the son of a psychopath. This article is a fine example of sophistry.

An insane dictator who murders family members, and any of his Lieutenants that he is suspicious of. The NK nation is one big brain wash, and essentially a gulag, a prison camp.

From the BBC: “In the 1990s North Korea suffered a terrible famine. Today, according to the World Food Programme, “one in every three children remains chronically malnourished or ‘stunted’, meaning they are too short for their age”.

South Korea, in contrast, has experienced rapid economic growth. Bloem says “economic growth is one of the main determinants of height improvement”.”

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  Dutchman
May 1, 2017 11:26 am

And you know this because you read it in the NYT.

Do you speak Korean? How do you “know” these things?

Truly, I’m curious how people come to these conclusions.

GilbertS
GilbertS
  hardscrabble farmer
May 1, 2017 5:31 pm

Try youtube, Hardscrabble. There are a lot of undercover videos smuggled out of NK and a great documentary, Land of Whispers, by a hippie who got permission to go, but videotaped as much as he could without permission. Even the stuff he was allowed to get is still embarrassing and revealing about the NORKs.

Also, you can’t tell me you aren’t aware of the stuff the NORKs pull and have pulled since the end of the war. Were you serving during the infamous Tree Cutter Murder when the NORKs crossed the border to hack unarmed tree trimmers to bits at a South Korean/US observation post? And were you ever stationed on the DMZ? Guys on the border told me stories about the NORK patrols on the Southern side of the DMZ. And you must remember the NORK tunnels filled with tanks found underneath South Korea, right? And what about that peculiar propaganda city they built full of empty buildings and facades they light up at night?

Also, please watch this video:

THIS is very informative, despite it being primarily about American BBQ. Please check it out.

You don’t need to do much reading to uncover proof of the bizarre and violent NORK history.

pyrrhus
pyrrhus
  GilbertS
May 1, 2017 11:00 pm

So the NKs aren’t nice to their population…what business is that of yours, or the USA?

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
May 1, 2017 11:30 am

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“one in every three children remains chronically malnourished or ‘stunted’, meaning they are too short for their age”.

And in the overly critical free world we know everything there is to know about the proper care and feeding of children, that right?

Specie
Specie
May 1, 2017 1:53 pm

For all we know North Korea is just a CIA – Rothschilds operation.

If anybody needs a bogeyman they got ’em.

And right before a South Korean election that has our puppet in trouble.

just because it’s on tv don’t mean it’s true. It’s called programming for a reason.

just because it’s on the internet don’t mean it’s true. It’s called the world wide web for a reason.

Anonymous
Anonymous
May 1, 2017 2:50 pm

It’s all a con ,just to scare people,there’s a good article by Elijah j magnier called trump asking Saudi Arabia “we want more money to defend you “is a protection racket. Basically the US millitary industrial complex is inventing enemies because it’s milking billions from the US taxpayer and all these oil rich backward monarchies.The Asians are pissed off having to cough up the money so the US is stirring the shit in their neighbourhood.

nkit
nkit
May 1, 2017 3:56 pm

On 5-16-16, Harry P. posted a podcast on TBP about the excellent book by Barbara Demick titled: “Nothing To Envy” about the repressive North Korean regime.

Nothing To Envy

I listened to the podcast and ended up purchasing the book the same day.
The book is quite a page-turner about 6 different people that managed to escape North Korea into South Korea. Personally, I tend to believe these six people and their stories of the living hell that is North Korea.

Below is a review from Publishers Weekly. Believe as you will but having read the book I find it difficult to write off as propaganda.

A fascinating and deeply personal look at the lives of six defectors from the repressive totalitarian regime of the Republic of North Korea, in which Demick, an L.A. Times staffer and former Seoul bureau chief, draws out details of daily life that would not otherwise be known to Western eyes because of the near-complete media censorship north of the arbitrary border drawn after Japan’s surrender ending WWII. As she reveals, ordinary life in North Korea by the 1990s became a parade of horrors, where famine killed millions, manufacturing and trade virtually ceased, salaries went unpaid, medical care failed, and people became accustomed to stepping over dead bodies lying in the streets. Her terrifying depiction of North Korea from the night sky, where the entire area is blacked out from failure of the electrical grid, contrasts vividly with the propaganda on the ground below urging the country’s worker-citizens to believe that they are the envy of the world. Thorough interviews recall the tremendous difficulty of daily life under the regime, as these six characters reveal the emotional and cultural turmoil that finally caused each to make the dangerous choice to leave. As Demick weaves their stories together with the hidden history of the country’s descent into chaos, she skillfully re-creates these captivating and moving personal journeys.

Gator
Gator
  nkit
May 2, 2017 6:18 am

I don’t doubt that place is a terrible country to live in, and I feel for the people there, but I don’t see how that’s our problem, and that’s the entire point of all this. It’s not our problem. All we do is make everything worse anyways.

Boat Guy
Boat Guy
May 2, 2017 12:25 am

North Korea is just another fuckup in Asian foreign policies . Not unlike our middleast policies . It is true the “Dear Leaders” have been quite a pair of dangerous screwballs but let’s not forget NATO or was it the UN , SSDD . Remember leftover B29’s bombed the piss out of the common people not just military targets . Right around the same time we told HO CHI MINH to fuck off so the French could continue their colony issues in then INDO CHINA aka VIETNAM . After Ho pledged his help against the Japanese WW2 style we screwed him and ultamately 58,000 Americans and countless Vietnamese were slaughtered . So first we fuck the country up then we bill the taxpayer to unfuck it and if the country in question won’t coperate we trade sanction them till they eat shit and like it . North Koreans were given instructions on how to extract nutritional values by boiling tree bark and grass yet they are a nuclear threat ? Maybe but I doubt they could do shit to anyone unless the US Military stand down and let it happen , could be ?

Goldorack
Goldorack
May 2, 2017 5:32 am

In case of war, Seoul will be leveled no matter what. Norks have as much artillery in underground facilities facing the town than the soviets in open field during Berlin 1945, and they have batshit crazies to use them, just as the german teenagers of the SS. it will take a week at best, but the us won’t be able to prevent and do shit about that, as there are too numerous enemy positions and minefields to clear. people will die in SK so american taxpayer can see his dollars at work, and can later enjoy a hollywood movie, “the end of Seoul” starring Mark Wahlberg, in his sofa drinking a Bud. And say to his son “we liberated them, they owe freedom to us”.

as long as an american city doesn’t know the same fate as others in asia or europe during ww2, this will last over and over, during a century maybe.
the cost of destruction is what prevent bullies from stirring shit.

putinmultiplikator
putinmultiplikator
May 2, 2017 1:41 pm

In NK, there was a terrible crisis after the collapse of economical relations to Russia and Eastern Europe. But in recent times it seems the country is more prosperous then several parts of the European Union.