Why is the U.S., of all the nations in the world, leading the charge against N. Korea? Isn’t the pursuit of high tech military defense and the acquisition of nuclear weapons exactly what the U.S. and its allies have done for decades? Doesn’t N. Korea deserve to have the means by which to defend itself against attack?

Let’s ask the question: does N. Korea need to fear invasion?

We should keep in mind that the Korean War is not over. It continues to this day to merely be a “cease-fire” and that the Koreans themselves did nto initiate the war. It was the U.S. and Soviet Union.

To this very day, the U.S. maintains a military force along the DMZ (demilitarized zone) adjacent to the N. Korean border and conducts annual military exercises in the waters off the coast of N. Korea. Can you imagine our response if a nation did that to us?

N. Korea is an extremely impoverished nation. It is so poor that it is the recipient of what might be considered international welfare from nations around the globe, including the U.S.

In fact, the U.S. has a standing pact with the N. Koreans regarding nuclear energy, an industry we helped them to build.

Still, though poor and hungry, N. Korea has built the 5th largest army in the world and has long sought nuclear weapons. Why?

The obvious answer isn’t coming from Washington, which says everyone who doesn’t agree with America is evil and to be feared. No, the obvious answer is that since WWII, the U.S. has maintained a hostile, aggressive position against N. Korea, forcing it to always be on its guard against another attempt at invasion. It is leary of anything involving the U.S. because our leaders are corrupt and lie. It is afraid of being attacked and has maintained connections with China and Russia and other nations, which do not claim that N. Korea is a threat to the world or an “axis of evil.”

And what has the U.S. done in the meantime since WWII?

We have increased our military technology, ramped up the propaganda against N. Korea, conducted numerous military exercises in a show of ever-increasing strength near N. Korea’s border and refused to talk with them one-on-one.

That doesn’t sound like a very congenial relationship. But it does provide justification to the rationale behind N. Korea’s frantic evolvement toward becoming a military power.

Does it strike anyone as even mildly interesting that of the 192 nations of the world, N. Korea is ONLY afraid of being attacked by the U.S.? And the U.S. claims that N. Korea is deserving of being attacked, even as it claims it will not attack it?

Who is the aggressive one in this relationship? Both the U.S. and N. Korea agree on this issue. It is the U.S. that has displayed the “hostile attitude.”

“The issue of future nuclear tests is linked to U.S. policy toward our country,” Kim Yong Nam (No. 2 leader in N. Korea) was quoted as saying when asked whether Pyongyang will conduct more tests.

So what does the leader of the United Nations think? Who is the problem?

“I have always argued that we should talk to parties whose behavior we want to change, whose behavior we want to influence, and from that point of view I believe that … (the) U.S. and North Korea should talk,” Kofi Annan said.

It is not difficult to uncover truth, if that is our desire. All we need to do is ask the right questions and seek those answers. The U.S. government has been found lacking in its posture and positioning around the globe. It is arrogant, mean, and aggressive toward some of the poorest nations on earth.

But our government has no incentive to change until the American people decide to change our government.

Posted on October 12th, 2006 by admin
Filed under: America in the MidEast

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