Calling 71-year-old Donald Trump a “war merchant and strangler of peace,” North Korea shows an adroit use of propaganda, blaming Yankee imperialists for aggression on the Korean Peninsula. Since North Korea’s liberation from Japan Aug. 15, 1945 to its official founding Sept. 9, 1948 by Kim Il-sung, North Korea has been a Stalinist state relying heavily on the former Soviet Union. Used as a buffer against U.S. aggression, North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-un warns of U.S. invasion. Like his grandfather and father, Kim Jong-il, the brainwashing of a U.S. invasion started from Day 1. Kim justifies his nuclear weapons to prevent a U.S. invasion, something that hasn’t happened since the end of the Korean War July 27, 1953. Trump rattled North Korea Sept. 19, telling the U.N. General Assembly that he would “totally destroy” North Korea.
Trump comments are taken out of context for Kim’s propaganda machine, failing to mention North Korea’s Sept. 13 official KCNA news agency promising to turn the U.S. to “ashes and darkness,” “sink Japan” and “wipe out” South Korea with nukes. Trump said specifically he would “totally destroy” North Korea if they continued to threaten the U.S. and its allies with nuclear weapons. United Nations, European Union, Russia and China don’t recognize Kim’s nuclear threats against the United States. U.N, EU, Russia and China accept North Korea as a nuclear state. Trump’s White House and Pentagon does not accept North Korea as a nuclear state. Today’s crisis with North Korea stems from Trump’s insistence that North Korea disarm itself from its nukes and ballistic missiles. Russian President Vladimir Putin admitted Sept. 5, Kim won’t disarm his nukes and ballistic missiles Starting war games with South Korea Oct. 16 for 9 days, North Korea looks to another missile launch, maybe the vaunted Hwasong-13.
Intercontinental Ballistic Missile [ICBM], capable of hitting the U.S. mainland. Opening up an embassy in Tehran Aug. 4 to share nuke and missile technology, Trump’s no longer playing around with North Korea, not accepting, as the U.N., EU, Russia and China, that North Korea’s a nuclear state. While it’s true North Korea detonates nukes and fires off ballistic missiles, it doesn’t mean they can deliver a nuke on a ballistic missile yet. Trump’s promised he won’t let Kim get the technology to pack a nuke on an operational ICBM. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said today on CNN’s State of the Union that North Korea won’t get the message on disarmament until bombs hit Pyongyang. Tillerson hoped diplomacy would still work.
North Korea’s propaganda machine can’t accept that making nuclear threats against the United States won’t improve state security. Kim believes his nuke and ballistic missile program make North Korea safe from a U.S. invasion. If an invasion hasn’t happened since 1953, it’s not likely to happen now. Tillerson made it clear to China and Russia that the U.S. beef with North Korea isn’t about re-unifying the Korean Peninsula. It’s about keeping Kim from getting a nuked-tipped ICBM that could hit the U.S. or its allies. “The U.S. is the war merchant and strangler of peace which gives rise to dispute and conflicts around the world in order to draw water to its mill regardless to the existence of mankind,” said an op-ed in North Korea’s state-run newspaper. North Korea points fingers but accepts no blame for threatening nuclear strikes on the U.S. and its allies.
Before there’s any progress on defusing the crisis on the Korean Peninsula, China and Russia will have to make clear to Kim that Trump’s serious about going to war if North Korea doesn’t disarm. Tillerson’s statement about Kim not getting the message before bombs hit Pyongyang isn’t a threat but a statement of fact regarding current attempts as diplomacy. If Putin’s right that Kim won’t surrender his nuke and ballistic missile program, then war with North Korea is inevitable. German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed interest in mediating the dispute between Washington and Pyongyang. EU officials fear that a U.S. military confrontation could lead to WW III. When you consider the combatants, neither China nor Russia have much of a vested interest in North Korea. U.S. officials have already promised no interest in reunifying Korea.
North Korea’s propaganda machine believes its own nonsense that nuke and ballistic missiles are needed to prevent Yankee imperialists from crossing the 38th parallel. Forget that it hasn’t happened since 1953. When you’re the hermit state closed off the outside world, it’s easy to believe the state-sponsored propaganda. If you don’t believe anything the supreme leader says, you’re purged from your job, most likely tortured and vaporized. Trump told Tillerson Oct. 1 he’s “wasting his time” trying to talk through back channels to North Korea. Unlike the U.N., EU, China and Russia, Trump does not accept North Korea as a nuclear state, demanding that Kim disarm or face the U.S. military. Giving diplomacy a chance, Trump’s biding his time until the next North Korean nuke or ballistic missile test triggers a U.S. strike. No one in the U.N., EU, Russia or China can stop Kim’s nukes and ballistic missiles.
