PressTV: US protection racket root of Korea conflict . . . the first analysis I’ve seen . . . see what you think . . . ~J
April 1, 2013 by Jean
2012, SA-3 ground-to-air missiles are displayed during a military parade in
Pyongyang.
Mon Apr 1, 2013 6:13AM
GMT
By Finian Cunningham
the only way of properly
interpreting the recent weeks of threat and counter-threat of all-out war in
Korea is to recall scenes from the classic Mafia movie, The Godfather.
You know the drill. The mobster goes around the neighborhood demanding loyalty,
respect and tributes “for protection”. If the residents don’t conform to the
racket, then the boss arranges self-fulfilling violence to rain down on those
who dare to reject his magnanimous “protection”.
seemingly reckless, recurring threat of nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula is
this: the East Asian region is being run like a Mafia protection racket. And
the criminal Mafia is the US.
The conflict emanates
from Washington and is perpetuated by Washington. Why? To justify what would
otherwise be seen as simply outrageous US militarism in the Asia Pacific
hemisphere, and in particular a criminally aggressive agenda towards the main
geopolitical targets of Washington – China and Russia.
Korea’s conflict is not
primarily about North and South “enemy states”. It is, as it has been for the
past 68 years since the end of World War II, about Washington using military
force to criminally assert its hegemony on the global stage.
But you wouldn’t know
this from a casual reading of the Western news media. No, we are told over and
over again that the US is “protecting” South Korea and its other Asian allies.
The military presence of the US is “serving” as a “deterrent” to aggression
from a “sinister” North Korea. In this depiction, the US is the good guy, while
North Korea is the menacing reprobate that is a scourge on everybody’s
well-being and security. Kim Jong-un is the embodiment of the Axis of Evil.
That so-called “quality”
news media such as the BBC, New York Times and Guardian can
get away with seriously presenting this situation in terms portraying the US as
a benevolent force is an astounding feat of reality inversion and brainwashed
mind control. The irony is that such media implicitly mock North Korea as a
Stalinist “Big Brother” state, where critical thought and expression are
for
independence and democracy that the Korean people exhibited so boldly.
Washington achieved this by installing pro-Japanese collaborators as the rulers
of newly formed South Korea. Think about that one. The US fought a war
allegedly to defeat fascism and imped counter-threat of
all-out war in Korea is to recall scenes from the classic Mafia movie, The
Godfather. You know the drill. The mobster goes around the neighborhood
demanding loyalty, respect and tributes “for protection”. If the residents
don’t conform to the racket, then the boss arranges self-fulfilling violence to
rain down on those who dare to reject his magnanimous “protection”.
The exact same
arrangement applies in Korea under the tutelage of the US. The Peninsula was
unilaterally partitioned in 1945 by Washington into North and South statelets
because the US could not abide the fact that the Korean population at that time
was strongly anti-imperialist and yearning for socialist democracy. That
egalitarian sentiment helped the Koreans resist the occupying Japanese
imperialists prior to and during World War II.
Tellingly, in order to
assert its hegemony over Korea and the Asia Pacific, the US worked the
neighborhood over assiduously in order to defeat the popular movement for
independence and democracy that the Korean people exhibited so boldly.
Washington achieved this by installing pro-Japanese collaborators as the rulers
of newly formed South Korea. Think about that one. The US fought a war
allegedly to defeat fascism and imperialism, only to immediately collude with
the same political forces to defeat Korean democracy.
The dropping of the
atomic bombs by Washington on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was part and parcel of
American efforts to demarcate a postwar hegemony in the Asia Pacific to the
Soviet Union and China – and this is why Korea was also fractured into two
alien states that were then precipitated into war between 1950-53.
That war – in which a
third of the northern Korean population were exterminated by American
indiscriminate carpet-bombing and napalm incineration – has never officially
ended. The armistice signed in 1953 under Washington’s dictate is technically
only a ceasefire. For decades, North Korea’s demand for a full peace treaty has
been repeatedly rejected by Washington and its South Korean client state. In
other words, Washington has retained the implicit prerogative to resume its
aerial bombardment of the North Korean population at any time it chooses. That
constitutes a constant threat, or a policy of state terrorism by Washington.
The threat from the US
towards the Korean population has and continues to include nuclear
annihilation. During the Korean War, the US air force would regularly fly
nuclear-capable B-52 bombers over the Peninsula. People on the ground would
recognize the aircraft, but they did not know what the operational intent was.
Can you imagine the terrorism that this conveyed? – barely five years after the
US vaporized the civilian populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and at the same
time that US military were compelling Koreans to live in caves as the only way
of escaping mass destruction from conventional bombing.
This same thuggish
behaviour by the US government is consistent with its authorization during this
past week for the flying of nuclear-capable B-2 and B-52 bombers over the
Korean Peninsula. The dropping of “inert bombs” by these aerial monsters has to
be seen as a heinous calculation in Washington aimed at heightening the
terrorism.
Yet, absurdly, the
Western propaganda organs, otherwise called news, portray this American state
terrorism as “protection”.
The New York
Times, for example, quoted one so-called “expert” as explaining North
Korea’s response to the latest American provocation by saying: “The North
Korean populace has to be regularly reminded that their country is surrounded
by scheming enemies. Otherwise, they might start asking politically dangerous
questions.”
The laugh about this
brain-washed expert thinking, and theNew York
Times promoting it, is that the people of Korea are indeed surrounded
by a scheming enemy – the US – and if the wider international public and media
were to start thinking about that fact then there would be “politically
dangerous questions” such as: what gives the US the right to conduct annual
military “war games” off and on the Korean Peninsula for the past six decades,
including the deployment of nuclear annihilation?
The people of Korea,
North and South, deserve and desire peace. Despite the antagonism and
belligerence highlighted in the Western propaganda media, the majority of
people of North and South Korea have in fact no wish for war. The consensus
among ordinary Koreans is for peace and a democratic resolution to decades of
conflict imposed on their homeland from outside. But they won’t obtain that
reasonable condition as long as Washington continues to run its “protection
racket”.
And, unfortunately, the
American government will not, cannot stop its criminal behaviour – because
domination, aggression and terrorism are the hallmarks of Washington’s Mafia
regime.
FC/HMV
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