DPRK is allied to China, Iran, RF and China. N. Koreans deeply hate America for USA crimes obsessively remembered that USA blithely forgets.
The American carpet bombing of civilians with high explosives and napalm in the DPRK eventually killed an estimated three million civilians and destroyed all the agriculture and life support infrastructure. The war never ended and the USA and UN have continued to torture the people of North Korea with bullying sanctions. Many scholars unanimously agree this conduct without reparations was unforgivable and a catastrophic miscalculation of Americans that will not go unpunished.
Communist nations working together can solve hunger and despair. Photo credit: The RINJ Foundation. Art, cropping, enhancement: Rosa Yamamoto / Feminine-Perspective-Magazine
Historian Bruce Cumings likens the indiscriminate American bombing of North Korea to genocide. He writes that American soldiers took part in, or observed, civilian atrocities not dissimilar to those at My Lai, Vietnam, another serious war crime.
Sahr-Conway Lanz, who holds a Ph.D. in the history of American foreign relations, has written extensively about the legacy and impact on American discourse on the international norm of noncombatant immunity.
“During the [Korean] war, American military and civilian officials stretched the term “military target” to include virtually all human-made structures, capitalizing on the vague distinction between the military and civilian segments of an enemy society. They came to apply the logic of total war to the destruction of the civil infrastructure in North Korea.” (Google Books: Collateral Damage: Americans, Noncombatant Immunity, and Atrocity after World War II)
“The US did in fact do something terrible, even evil to North Korea, and while that act does not explain, much less forgive, North Korea’s many abuses since, it is not totally irrelevant either,” wrote Max Fisher in Vox on 3 August 2015, Americans have forgotten what we did to North Korea.
Blaine Harden has written, this bombing was “perhaps the most forgotten part of a forgotten war,” even though it was almost certainly “a major war crime.”
Yet it shows that North Korea’s hatred of America “is not all manufactured,” Mr. Harden wrote. “It is rooted in a fact-based narrative, one that North Korea obsessively remembers and the United States blithely forgets.”
These are all American intellectuals expressing outrage at USA war crimes. Now there is a price to pay.
Archived photography shows the civilian communities of Pyongyang destroyed by U.S. Carpet Bombing in 1953. American mass murders continue. Photo Art / Cropping / Enhancement: Rosa Yamamoto / Feminine-Perspective-Magazine
American atrocities against Asians are a despicable norm. The Philippine-American War was thirty-nine months old when on May 22, 1902, George Frisbie Hoar, Republican senator from Massachusetts, rose to address the U.S. Senate.
“The Attempt to Subjugate a People striving for Freedom, Not the American Soldier, Responsible for Cruelties in the Philippine Islands.”
The man and the speech typified the confounded response of a dissenting minority of Americans, convinced their Army was guilty of arson, pillage, and torture in the Philippines Islands but who were reluctant to castigate uniformed soldiers. It was the imperialists in Washington whom Mr. Hoar wished to indict with his bill of particulars:
“You have devastated provinces. You have slain uncounted thousands of peoples you desire to benefit. You have established reconcentration camps…. You make the American flag in the eyes of a numerous people the emblem of sacrilege in Christian churches, and of the burning of human dwellings, and of the horror of the water torture.
Try as he would, however, Hoar found it difficult to exempt the American soldier from the charge of personal misconduct. He was the immediate instrument in “the devastation of provinces, the shooting of captives, the torture of prisoners and of unarmed and peaceful citizens, and the hanging men up by the thumbs.”
Selected work of Prof. Richard E. Welch, Jr. professor of history in Lafayette College.
Editor: Concomitant to American abuses of Asians, the leaders of China, Iran, Russia and North Korea are now surreptitiously united against the USA, militarily. America’s violent criminality worked for over a century to provoke creation of an enemy it cannot defeat without killing itself in a nuclear war. America cannot defeat a well-armed army of five or more million. Reparations and peace are the only way ahead for America to survive its own atrocities.
North Korea has conducted at least six nuclear tests, in 2006, 2009, 2013, twice in 2016, and in 2017. At least one test may have been a staged Teller–Ulam thermonuclear weapon, an advanced generation of nuclear weapons far more powerful than a simple atomic fission bomb. The yield likely reached 250 kilotons.
North Korea’s Army is a daily 950,000-combatant sized fighting force with 450,000 ready reservists.
The DPRK probably has at least 5,545 tanks 2,500 infantry fighting vehicles 10,000 artillery pieces 5,500 multiple rocket launcher systems and an unknown number of tactical nuclear missiles based on numerous estimates, but in the hermit state, what cannot be seen, like cyber-warfare capabilities, may yield more trouble.
North Korea does not have an incompetent leadership.
Chairman Kim Jong-un has turned North Korea into a formidable foe to its enemies in a precarious and unfairly-weighted balance of feeding the people and maintaining sovereignty against perceived threats to its very existence.
It’s been that way for seventy years but only Kim Jong-un has been able to achieve these certain levels of success in building a mini-empire with a 1.3 million person army and the most expansive collection of conventional weapons on Earth. The DPRK has the industrial capability to support an enduring war with massive quantities of conventional ammunition. But it has indicated zero ambitions and exhibited zero aggression other than its protests against American jingoism in its territories. Based on disingenuous promises, amounting to con-artistry, of President Donald Trump, Kim Jong-un showed warm interest in building comradery with Moon Jae-in, then leader of South Korea.
The extraordinary partners the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and President Moon Jae-in of South Korea, on the Korean Peninsula. This was the InterKorean Summit May 2018, meeting between President of South Korea, Moon Jae-in and General Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea Kim Jong-un
“There were moments of regret and memories of overwhelming emotions,” Mr. Moon wrote in the letter of his relationship with Mr. Kim. “But I believe that holding our hands together, we have taken a sure step toward changing the fate of the Korean Peninsula.”
Photo credit: Cheongwadae / Blue House. Photo is cropped.
Art, cropping, enhancement: Rosa Yamamoto / Feminine-Perspective-Magazine
Injogogi is a Korean word meaning “no meat”. North Koreans have been eating a soy substitute to meat ahead of most of mankind which must adopt injogogi long before Earth’s human population reaches 9 billion. In this and in many ways, North Korea has turned its past difficulties into solid opportunities for what appears to be a well-planned future.
Babies in North Korea need Messrs. Xi, Kim and Putin to make open trade deals because the people are still hungry after all these 70 years of dire hardship imposed upon them by a bullying USA and UN.
Kim Jong-un’s historic visit to Russia had not yet ended when the United States launched threats directly against the leaders of those countries.
“Washington will monitor what is happening and, if necessary, will not hesitate to take steps to hold these individuals accountable,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said with a shallow, meaningless voice as step by step, Joseph Biden turns the world and America’s people against Biden and Washington D.C.
“We suggest to the Russian and DPRK parties open rail transportation between the Russian Federation and North Korea unequivocally and implement interim agreements for open trade. Sanctions have absolutely no bearing during a world war scenario the parties face today, and the best way to thwart bullying is to stay strong and united,” writes Dale Carter, security director for the global civil society women’s RINJ Foundation in a written reply to FPMag’s questions.
“Mr. Putin might agree there will never be another Dag Hammarskjöld, a great statesman among the best the world has ever known.
“The current U.N. is a corrupt quagmire that rapes women and girls, hence the people must do their own bidding and ignore the American and European bullies,” Ms. Carter continues in her submission.
“Today the people refers to a government that loves its people and there are maybe only three alleged democratic small nations that have that. This must be a socialist triumph. Both Russia and North Korea have desperate need for what each partner can do for each other and they must do this quickly. I dare suggest that with Mr. Putin’s return visit, to Pyongyang, that this could happen and that President Xi Jinping would do the same, open full trade with the DPRK and end the bullying by outsiders,” added Ms. Carter.
“Russia’s decades-long effort to befriend America and Europe, while maybe a beautiful dream, is wasted energy. The American violent jail-bird mentality has no capacity to comprehend rich Russian cultural and intellectual heritage,” Ms. Carter wrote in her response as a side bar.
This week’s Russia-North Korea talks. Photo credit: Vladimir Smirnov, TASS
At the end of the recent summit and congenial reception of the DPRK delegation in the Russian Federation, Kim Jong-un invited Vladimir Putin to visit the DPRK at any convenient time. Mr. Putin has responded in the affirmative.
The RINJ Foundation women, in the spirit of humanitarian action adduce that:
- In dealing with the North Korean nuclear crisis the United States has erred badly and acted disingenuously and without respect and dignity. The USA leadership has no comprehension of Asian culture or matters and has lost much of its global status as a reliable and credible leader. America needs to find the right people to do its governance.
- In dealing with the North Korean authorities over 70 years, America blithely forgave itself for atrocities that required reparations. America needs to make those reparations good. North Korea is very much nuclear armed today, a fact which sanctions and bullying have not prevented whereas doing the right things would have worked.
- Fault of the epic failure is on both the USA and UN which at the root are serious 1950s war-criminals. The classic belligerence approach to hide those crimes in history bred more antagonism and more DPRK fear, not to mention the starving and killing hundreds of thousands of North Koreans and the risk of slaughtering as many as 200 million Asians in East and Southeast Asia.
The RINJ Foundation women are urging calm reparations and insist that populations elect serious leaders—no more egocentric narcissistic fools—global leaders capable of seeking a meaningful dialogue among nuclear nations to avert Nuclear War and begin multilateral nuclear disarmament among nuclear nations.