RobinnV , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

North Korea tried to invade and subjugate South Korea. The fact that both America and North Korea have nukes does not somehow excuse North Korean attempts to acquire them and terrorize South Korea and Japan. (Yes, despite the fact America has detonated them. In what sense do past American atrocities make North Korean aggression okay?)

Talk about shockingly disingenuous. There was no divided Korea until the U.S. arrived, with the dividing line being drawn by two U.S. officials with no precedent to get Seoul in their occupied territory (Patriots, Traitors and Empires, p. 73). The American zone of South Korea was called a “police state” by Roger Baldwin, chief of the American Civil Liberties Union; before the Korean War, the south had 70,000 leftists in concentration camps (Korea’s Place in the Sun, p. 223); by December 1949 the anti-communist National Security Law in the occupied South had been used to arrest 188,621 people (Ibid., p. 348); the U.S. military literally trafficked Korean women for r*pe in continuation of Japanese colonial comfort stations (Patriots, Traitors and Empires, p. 33;. look up the Jeju Massacre for me as well.

“Korea is a major responsibility which we [Amerikans] as a world power have voluntarily assumed. . . . We have committed here some of our most excruciating errors… Opinion polls show that 64 out of every 100 Koreans dislike us” — Mark Gayn in New York Star, Nov. 1947

“[There is] growing resentment against all Americans in the area including passive resistance… Every day of drifting under this situation makes our position in Korea more untenable and decreases our waning popularity… The word pro-American is being added to pro-Jap, national traitor, and collaborator” — John R. Hodge (U.S. Army Officer) (Korea’s Place in the Sun)

Here’s some examples of Japanese colonial collaborators and officials promoted in the ROK:

• Paek Son-yop, also from the Kwantung Army, was the first four-star general in the south Korean army
• Paek In-yop (Kwantung), commander of south Korea’s 17th Independent Regiment
• Park Chung-hee (Kwantung), south Korean Army, south Korean President (1962-63)
• Kim Chae-gyu (Japanese military officer), head of south Korean Central Intelligence Agency (KCIA)
• Kim Sok-won (colonel, Japanese Imperial Army), lead the 1948 6/2 parade consisting of 2,500 Japanese army veterans through Seoul (the manufactured capital of SK)

The KPA invaded (as far as one can invade oneself) an illegitimate stronghold of U.S. brutality where the people were oppressed and attempted to do away with the division of their nation, not “subjugate [the south]” a goal which had already been accomplished. As far as aggression goes, do you not know about the SK-US(-Japanese) joint military mobilizations along the DMZ, which provoke weapons demonstrations for the purpose of deterrence (of which the nuclear weaponry of the DPRK is only referred to in the context of deterrence in state media). To quote David E. Sanger, a member of the U.S. state adjacent Council on Foreign Relations: “The fear is not that [the DPRK] would launch a pre-emptive attack on the West Coast; that would be suicidal, and if the North’s 33-year-old leader has demonstrated anything in his five years in office, he is all about survival. But if [the DPRK] has the potential ability to strike back, it will shape every decision Mr. Trump and his successors make.” Do you not know about the incessant threats of nuclear annihilation by the U.S., not to mention of course the fact that they killed millions of Koreans in the Korean War (FLW), showing this is not an empty threat? I hope you’re just ignorant, cause seriously get a grip.