Deceit And Demonisation

Deceit And Demonisation

- John LaForge

On September 11, 2017, the UN Security Council imposed further sanctions on North Korea following its sixth and possibly largest nuclear test. The latest round of UN sanctions puts an annual cap of two million barrels on refined petroleum products and a ban on textile exports. The latter i s worth US$725 million to that economy.

Both China and Russia are reluctant to impose further sanctions and prefer dialogue and negotiations with North Korea. However Trump and his administration are determined to pursue belligerence and fierce war-talk.

In pursuit of this aggressive, destabilising and potentially devastating approach they have unleashed a sustained propaganda campaign demonising Kim Jong-un and his government.

But the truth is much more complex and revealing of the way the US and its junior partners Japan and South Korea are dealing with North Korea. To be sure, progressive forces, internationally, should seek to convince North Korea not to become a fully-fledged nuclear power, as well as to tone down its rhetoric. It is important to intensify the struggle for the elimination of all nuclear weapons in the world.

Below we reproduce an article by John LaForge which enables us to better understand the history of US involvement in the Korean peninsula and its devastating impact on North Korea and its people.

“We Burned Down Every Town in North Korea” by John LaForge

We went over there and fought the war and eventually burned down every town in North Korea anyway, some way or another… Over a period of three years or so, we killed off, what, 20 percent of the population? General Curtis LeMay, in Strategic Air Warfare, by Richard H. Kohn