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| KCNA on U.S. hostile policy toward DPRK | ||||
| 2003-02-21 | ||||
| It's long, it's crap, it's KCNA... Pyongyang, February 20 (KCNA) -- The situation on the Korean Peninsula and in Northeast Asia is so alarming that a nuclear war may break out any moment. This is attributable to the U.S. extremely reckless hostile policy to stifle the DPRK. The Bush administration fabricated the fiction of the DPRK's "nuclear weapons development" and peddled it to the international community in a bid to internationalize the "nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula", the issue which should have long been settled between the DPRK and the U.S. It also instigated some members of the international atomic energy agency, a political waiting maid of the U.S., to refer the issue to the un security council while crying out for a "military counteraction". Last week the IAEA was our "cats paw". This week, "waiting maid".
Then why is the U.S. styling itself the world's "only superpower" resorting to such a mean farce unbecoming for its status so desperately? Lurking behind this is a strategic aim sought by the bush administration to woo the international community to put political and diplomatic pressure upon the DPRK till it is disarmed and place the whole Korean Peninsula under its domination and, furthermore, establish its political and military supremacy over Northeast Asia. The heritage foundation in the U.S. already worked out an official report to the effect that success of the U.S. world strategy in the 21st century would depend on its policy toward the Korean Peninsula. I wasn't aware that the Heritage Foundation was in charge of making U.S. foreign policy. It said that the U.S. absolute interests in Northeast Asia cannot be guaranteed nor can a new international order and the U.S. leading position and role be ensured in the world unless the Korean issue is settled. The foundation's assertion about the establishment of a new international order represents the Bush administration's universal view aimed to put its strategic rivals in Northeast Asia under its political and military domination.
The jist of this rant seems to be that control of Northeast Asia (Korea) is the key to "world domination". How many out there knew that? Let's see some hands.
Or maybe they'll all just starve to death. However, socialist Korea has been converted into a politically and militarily powerful country which no formidable enemy dares attack under the banner of the army-based policy. The U.S. had no option but to view a war with the DPRK as a "horror story" and agree on adopting the DPRK-U.S. Agreed Framework (AF), in the long-run. It was really a magnanimous measure taken by the DPRK to adopt the AF at the negotiations with the U.S. under which both sides made political, moral and legal commitments to remove the root cause of long-standing mistrust, confrontation and misunderstanding between the two countries and normalize bilateral relations. ..and we were "magnanimous" because we had no intention of honoring any of it. Thanks, Jimmy Carter. If American politicians were wise enough, they should have not missed that rare historic opportunity for the sake of the future of the U.S. but opted for fully normalizing its relations with the DPRK. However, no sooner had the Bush administration taken office than it went so arrogant as reviving the Cold War doctrine principally aimed at "setting right its territorial and social position unfavorable for the U.S. interests." What upset the hard-line hawks of the Bush administration was landmark political changes in the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia in the new century. Thanks to active measures taken by the DPRK, its relations with several countries in the region witnessed rapid progress and a firm foundation was laid for peace, reconciliation and cooperation in the inter-Korean relations and such bold plans for reconnecting the inter-Korean railways and linking them with the Trans-Siberian railroad entered the phase of practical implementation. In the meantime, the U.S. keen on political and military hegemony in the Asia-Pacific region found itself in the danger of being completely eliminated from the political arena in Northeast Asia due to its hostile policy towards the DPRK. It was against this backdrop that the U.S. felt an urgent need to hatch a plot to set back the positive development in Northeast Asia. The fiction of the DPRK's "nuclear development" was to serve this purpose. Seems like the Russians and the Japanese don't buy into "the fiction". That was why the U.S. projected "threat from North Korea" and its "nuclear development" and worked hard to internationalize them. To this end, the Bush group was busy dispatching so-called "special envoys" to Northeast Asian and European countries and set in motion the IAEA. It totally scrapped the AF and even went the lengths of urging Japan and South Korea not to improve relations with the DPRK. The Bush administration's Korea policy was a defective product as it went amiss from the outset. It is proven through decades-long confrontation between the DPRK and the U.S. that if the U.S. takes hostile attitude toward the DPRK and seeks to dominate the whole Korean Peninsula by means of war the U.S. itself will not escape catastrophe. Another purpose sought by the U.S. in peddling "threat" from the DPRK and its "nuclear development" and pushing forward the establishment of "Missile Defense System" (MD) and preparations for a war of aggression is to put its war industry in full-capacity operation in a bid to save the U.S. economy from depression and drive its strategic rivals to an arms race till their strength is neutralized. Hey, it worked against the Soviets. Much upset by a serious crisis as evidenced by recession, a slowdown in export and increase in unemployment, the bush administration is keen to help the munition monopolies rake up huge profits through ridiculous military spending and the establishment of md in a bid to consolidate its political foundation and reenergize the economy and, at the same time, draw its strategic rivals into the arms race. It is open secret that the declaration of the East-West Cold War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and all other wars waged by the U.S. against humanity were to meet the interests of the U.S. military-industrial complexes. The national security strategy shaped by the Truman regime was to implement this plan and it has since served as a foundation of the foreign policy pursued by the successive U.S. administrations. The U.S. needs a new flashpoint for a war in order to save its economy from a crisis through escalated tensions and arms buildup. The U.S. views oil-rich Iraq and Korea, a strategic vantage, as those flashpoints. The administration's anachronistic Korea policy went amiss this time, too. Any U.S. provocation to the DPRK may put its interests in the Asia-Pacific in serious jeopardy. This may lead the U.S. economy to catastrophe and, moreover, put its position as a "superpower" in a peril. If the U.S. had dropped its hostile policy toward the DPRK and established friendly relations with the latter, the issue of transport route, the most important issue in its efforts to develop Northeast Asia, would have already been settled, doing those countries in the region and the U.S. good. Given that genuine economic prosperity is guaranteed by peace and free and fair world economic order, the Present Bush administration's recovery of war industry will only bring benefits to a handful of munition monopolies, while putting the majority of working people in destitution. this would make the prospect of the U.S. economy gloomier. Kim Jong Il: Friend of the American working man. It is by no means fortuitous that many people of the world assert that "a rogue state is the U.S., not the DPRK and the country which should undergo a change is none other than the U.S." If we were a rogue state, North Korea would've become a radioactive trash heap 50 years ago. As the DPRK has already clarified, it has willingness to clear the U.S. of its security concern if it assures the DPRK of non-aggression including non-use of nukes by concluding a legally binding non-aggression treaty and does not stand in the way of the DPRK's economic development. Sounds like they want a deal. And soon. And badly. The U.S. will get nothing from talking about "military counteraction" against the DPRK and maintaining a hard-line stand toward it. The DPRK has never fired even a single shell at the territory of the U.S. if the U.S. dares start a war against the DPRK despite its warning, it will react to it with the toughest self-defensive measure. | ||||
| Posted by:tu3031 |
| #12 I've got a Russian friend who emigrated here in '82 and he still says they most amazing thing he's ever seen was the first time he walked into an American supermarket. They are just floored by all the "stuff" we've got available to us. |
| Posted by: tu3031 2003-02-21 16:08:53 |
| #11 I met a Russian who went to London way back in the 70's and said he actually thought it was a set up. |
| Posted by: Sharon 2003-02-21 15:51:57 |
| #10 They may be brainwashed, but they're still human. One of the clues that S.Korean police have in capturing infiltrators is that the northerns stand around in the middle of a street and gawk at modern civilization. One trip through the South and their entire concept of life changes. Lies, lies, and more lies is the line going through their heads. That's why they're stunned. It crushes their complete understanding of world. Deprogramming hasn't, and will not, be a problem there. |
| Posted by: Don 2003-02-21 14:48:10 |
| #9 There is an underground movement that smuggles people out of N.Korea thru China. Saw this on a documentary awhile back. These N.Koreans on TV seemed as rational as you and me. It is difficult to estimate how many are actually delusional, how many aren't but do what they are told out of fear, and how many simply tow the party line to keep any little advantage they may have over the rest. |
| Posted by: RW 2003-02-21 14:15:57 |
| #8 The worst part is that even were we to decide to send Dear Leader to join his ancestors, we'd be dealing with a brainwashed people. They're not like the Iraqis, who live with Sadddam but know better, and who can reasonably be expected to welcome US troops or at least understand what they're about. These folks have been Completely Cut Off for decades. We (or at least the ROK) might have to spend years deprogramming what is essentially a cult with millions of members. |
| Posted by: jrosevear 2003-02-21 13:05:17 |
| #7 This is brain numbing. North Korea is seriously delusional. They are a mentally ill regime. How can a rational person contemplate further agreements with these people? |
| Posted by: jonesy 2003-02-21 12:45:36 |
| #6 "Legally binding non-aggression treaty"? Yeah, we've seen how they perform under legal obligations. We're gonna keep 'em squirming. Let's see what new silliness Dear Leader pulls in order to get our attention. |
| Posted by: Rex Mundi 2003-02-21 11:11:41 |
| #5 Excuse me while I wipe the spittle off of my screen... |
| Posted by: mojo 2003-02-21 11:10:20 |
| #4 Boy, reading this stuff makes my head spin! So NKor wants a legally binding non-agression treaty? What the hell does legally binding mean? After reading this diatribe, I will agree with the editorial comment about NK wanting a deal and soon and badly. They will just have to learn the meaning of "quid pro quo" first before they can expect a deal. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2003-02-21 10:21:42 |
| #3 The U.S. had no option but to view see? just a little editing and the KCNA vitriol actually makes sense |
| Posted by: Frank G 2003-02-21 10:14:20 |
| #2 Kind of reminiscent of the "You don't have proof that Saddam has chemical weapons, and if you do attack him he will use all of those chemical weapons" argument. |
| Posted by: Dreadnought 2003-02-21 09:24:03 |
| #1 They're threatening nuclear war but statements to the effect that they're developing nukes are "fiction". This makes even less sense than usual. Must've been hitting the ol' grape juche again. |
| Posted by: jrosevear 2003-02-21 09:01:22 |