Updated: December 30, 2017
Most Koreans know their history very well, even if most Americans and most Australians and others do not.
.Most Koreans know their history very well, even if most Americans and most Australians and others do not.
The ‘news’ media is largely to blame for this ignorance, with its simplistic and one-sided reporting. Owners of the media and the
vested interests they represent profit more from the obscene business of war
than from diplomacy and peace. Instead of believing the self-serving lies and propaganda of warmongers echoed by the mainstream ‘news’ media, do your own research.
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The Korean War did NOT start in
1950 with "North Korea invading South Korea", and “we” were NOT the “good guys”. Understanding the diabolical US-led
crimes against Korea, at least from 1945 until today, should lead to empathy for the people of North
Korea. This is an essential first step to a peaceful and sustainable solution
to the Korean peninsula crisis.
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There is no desirable military solution.
Some enlightening reading:
How Cheney and
His Allies Created the North Korea Nuclear Missile Crisis
By Gareth Porter, December 29, 2017. ~ MUST-READ!
By Gareth Porter, December 29, 2017. ~ MUST-READ!
“…North Korea reached agreements with both the Clinton and George
W. Bush administrations… a group of Bush administration officials led by
then-Vice President Dick Cheney sabotaged both agreements…to curb North Korean
nuclear and missile development…because those agreements would have been a
political obstacle to fielding the group's main interest: funding and fielding
a national missile defense system…that served only the interests of the
powerful contractors behind it…”
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/43048-how-cheney-and-his-allies-created-the-north-korea-nuclear-missile-crisisThe Problem is Washington, Not North Korea
By Mike Whitney
This Is What’s Really Behind
North Korea’s Nuclear Provocations
It’s easy to dismiss Kim Jong-un
as a madman. But there’s a long history of US aggression against the North,
which we forget at our peril.
By Bruce Cumings
The Mindless Hawkish Response to
North Korea’s Missile Test
"Threatening North Korea
with regime change... is one of the stupidest things the U.S. could do..."
What the N. Korean “Crisis” Is
Really About
By Paul Craig Roberts
What Corporate Media Never Tells
You About North Korea
By Joe Clifford
NYT’s ‘Impossible to Verify’
North Korea Nuke Claim Spreads Unchecked by Media
Why Does North Korea Want Nukes?
By Paul Atwood
Facts of the Korean War: UN
Security Council, Instrument of US led Wars, Blatantly Biased Against North
Korea
How History Explains the Korean
Crisis
August 28, 2017. Special Report: Many Americans
simply view North Korea and its leaders as “crazy,” but the history behind
today’s crisis reveals of a more complex reality that could change those
simplistic impressions.
By William R. Polk
“History of U.S. Sabotage of
Korean Peace and Reunification”
By S. Brian Willson
“…The well documented but little publicly known historical record of the United States in Korea is nothing short of demonic and shameless… This pattern of U.S. behavior pre-dates the Cold War…”
“…The well documented but little publicly known historical record of the United States in Korea is nothing short of demonic and shameless… This pattern of U.S. behavior pre-dates the Cold War…”
Trump and the Geopolitics of
Crazy
The Times They Are A-Changin’ in
North Korea
By John Feffer. August 22, 2017.
” The United States has beaten
its head against the wall of North Korea for more than 70 years, and that wall
has changed little indeed as a result. The United States, meanwhile, has
suffered one headache after another… It's way past time for the Trump
administration to take a few aspirin and a few deep breaths, and seize this
opportunity to talk with the North Koreans before both head and wall sustain
irreparable damage.”
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176320/tomgram%3A_john_feffer%2C_avoiding_war_with_pyongyang/#more
Why Trump Won’t Start a War With North Korea
By Mike Whitney. September
8, 2017.
“…The US already has the arrangement it wants on the Peninsula…
North Korea agreed to end its nuclear weapons program in 1994 if the US met its
modest demands?...The North kept its word, but the US didn’t. It’s that simple…It’s the same game Washington has been playing for the last hundred years…”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47771.htm
State of Fear: How History’s Deadliest Bombing Campaign Created Today’s Crisis in Korea
By Ted Nace
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/08/state-of-fear-how-historys-deadliest-bombing-campaign-created-todays-crisis-in-korea/
Why Does North Korea Hate Us?
By Robert C. Koehler
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47633.htm
The Social and Economic Achievements of North Korea. The DPRK Confronts Barbaric Actions by UN Security Council
By Carla Stea. Global Research’s correspondent at United Nations Headquarters, New York, N.Y. (June 11, 2017)
“…History will condemn the current US-led United Nations assault on the DPRK as one of the greatest crimes of the twenty-first century… Upon my return, on May 25, 2017 from the DPRK, I was appalled by the totalitarian mind-set revealed by the fifteen members of the UN Security Council who supported the new Chapter VII Resolution 2356, increasing the strangling sanctions against the DPRK, a heroic , progressive, admirable people desperately trying to defend themselves from any repetition of the barbaric slaughter inflicted upon their nation, with the criminal collusion of the UN Security Council, during the first Korean War, 1950-1953. The unanimous support for the new sanctions by all 15 Security Council members is shameful. All fifteen members of the Security Council, including the United States, know, categorically, that the DPRK will not attack another country unless they are attacked first, or provoked intolerably….”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-social-and-economic-achievements-of-north-korea/5594234
State of Fear: How History’s Deadliest Bombing Campaign Created Today’s Crisis in Korea
By Ted Nace
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/12/08/state-of-fear-how-historys-deadliest-bombing-campaign-created-todays-crisis-in-korea/
Why Does North Korea Hate Us?
By Robert C. Koehler
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47633.htm
The Social and Economic Achievements of North Korea. The DPRK Confronts Barbaric Actions by UN Security Council
By Carla Stea. Global Research’s correspondent at United Nations Headquarters, New York, N.Y. (June 11, 2017)
“…History will condemn the current US-led United Nations assault on the DPRK as one of the greatest crimes of the twenty-first century… Upon my return, on May 25, 2017 from the DPRK, I was appalled by the totalitarian mind-set revealed by the fifteen members of the UN Security Council who supported the new Chapter VII Resolution 2356, increasing the strangling sanctions against the DPRK, a heroic , progressive, admirable people desperately trying to defend themselves from any repetition of the barbaric slaughter inflicted upon their nation, with the criminal collusion of the UN Security Council, during the first Korean War, 1950-1953. The unanimous support for the new sanctions by all 15 Security Council members is shameful. All fifteen members of the Security Council, including the United States, know, categorically, that the DPRK will not attack another country unless they are attacked first, or provoked intolerably….”
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-social-and-economic-achievements-of-north-korea/5594234
Additional references:
Bruce Cumings, "A Murderous
History of Korea", London Review of Books, May 18, 2017
Tim Shorrock, "Diplomacy With
North Korea Has Worked Before, and Can Work Again", The Nation, Sept. 5,
2017
Darrell Prince, "North Korea
situation Sept 3, 2017: You catch more flies with honey, than vinegar"
Bruce Cumings, Korea's Place in the Sun. A Modern History (New
York: W.W. Norton Co., 1997)
William Blum, from “Killing Hope:
US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II” - Chapter 5
“How is it that the Korean War escaped the protests which surrounded the war in Vietnam?…”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47825.htm
“How is it that the Korean War escaped the protests which surrounded the war in Vietnam?…”
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47825.htm
ABC: Understand the North Korean
Crisis
ABC: A history of North Korea
Rear Vision looks at the history
of North Korea and in particular the history of the relationship between North
Korea and the United States of America.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/north-korea/3352778
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rearvision/north-korea/3352778
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