By Steven Jonas
North Korea will never give up its nuclear weapons and its right to
maintain them, indefinitely. After all,
if the three states that have not signed the Nucelar Non-Proliferation Treaty ,
India, Pakistan,
and Israel, can have them, why not North Korea?
The excuses for India and Pakistan are primarily each other, for Israel,
its size and its geographical isolation.
For North Korea, the reason is a rather different one. Rather, it is
reasons. Let me count (some of) them: North Korea (1950-53), Iran
(1953), Guatemala
(1954), Vietnam (1954), Hungary (attempted, 1956), Brazil (1964), the
Dominican
Republic (1965), Chile (1973), (Afghanistan, 1978-86), Nicaragua
(partial,
1980s), the Soviet Union (which, despite having nuclear weapons,
succumbed to
the 75 Years War Against the Soviet Union, 1917-1992), Iraq (2003), Cuba
(since
1961, unsuccessful, but still trying), (Iran, presently, still trying),
Libya
(2012), Venezuela (2017: http://www.globalresearch.ca/large-scale-manoeuvres-encircling-venezuela/5607619
). And so on
and so forth.
This is a partial list of countries in which the U.S. has attempted,
often but not always with success, what is politely called "regime
change." The interventions have ranged
from the frank overthrow of a freely elected government (Iran, 1953), to direct
military invasion of a supposedly "threatening" military dictatorship which,
however, presented no threat to the United States other than what was put out
in the government propaganda of the time (Iraq, 2003).
It happens that it was the U.S. that created the two Koreas. As World War II was coming to a close, the
Soviet Union was poised to invade Japan and its then colonial possession,
Korea, on August 8, 1945. One motivation
for the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki
(August 9) was to foreclose the possibility that the Red Army would establish a
foothold on Japanese territory (the first landings were to be on the
northernmost Japanese island of Hokkaido) and would quickly take over the whole
of the Korean Peninsula.
With the forestalling of the Soviet invasion, U.S. personnel quickly
were moved to Korea. Before they arrived
in September, in Washington a young U.S. colonel, one Dean Rusk, looked at a
map and decided that a line dividing Korea in two, one a "Soviet" zone, and the
other a "U.S." zone, would a) be a good idea, and b) would be [arbitrarily] drawn
at the 38thparallel. (With
this sort of action, Dean Rusk, an army colonel at the time, was obviously preparing
for his much bigger role in preparing and perpetuating the War on Viet Nam.)
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Source: OpEdNews.com
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