North Korea: How Obama's Regime Change Policy Created the Crisis Trump Has Inherited
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2017 Sep 7, 11:26am 2,673 views 6 comments
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RWSGFY
2017 Sep 7, 2:19pm
RWSGFY
2017 Sep 7, 2:19pm
Did Hanoi Jane ghost-write this POS article?
"Let’s start with some basic background. The hostile U.S. relationship with the DPRK dates back to the Korean War, when U.S. bombers turned the country into cinders in a destructive campaign of carpet-bombing that killed millions of people. In 1953, an armistice ended the fighting, leaving the country divided and in a perpetual state of war. A peace treaty was never signed. Sometime in the late 1980s, with the border still tense and the U.S. showing no signs of withdrawing its military forces from the South, the DPRK decided to embark on a nuclear program to defend itself from wars of regime change and guarantee its sovereignty."
Eeeeevil US out of the blue bombed the fluffy and cuddly DPRK and for no good reason refuses to pull up stakes and leave. Down with Yankee dogs!
"Let’s start with some basic background. The hostile U.S. relationship with the DPRK dates back to the Korean War, when U.S. bombers turned the country into cinders in a destructive campaign of carpet-bombing that killed millions of people. In 1953, an armistice ended the fighting, leaving the country divided and in a perpetual state of war. A peace treaty was never signed. Sometime in the late 1980s, with the border still tense and the U.S. showing no signs of withdrawing its military forces from the South, the DPRK decided to embark on a nuclear program to defend itself from wars of regime change and guarantee its sovereignty."
Eeeeevil US out of the blue bombed the fluffy and cuddly DPRK and for no good reason refuses to pull up stakes and leave. Down with Yankee dogs!
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zzyzzx
2017 Sep 9, 11:51am
zzyzzx
2017 Sep 9, 11:51am
It's all FDR's fault. He was the one who thought it would be a great idea if we handed over half of Korea to Stalin.
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RWSGFY
2017 Sep 10, 8:05am
RWSGFY
2017 Sep 10, 8:05am
anonymous says
Yes it did. But only when we hit the fucks with full force and don't rest until they are properly defeated, pacified and reformed through long occupation. As it was done with Germany and Japan. Leave the job half-done as was the case in Korea and shit comes back to haunt us.
This has always worked so well for us in the past now hasn't it ?
Yes it did. But only when we hit the fucks with full force and don't rest until they are properly defeated, pacified and reformed through long occupation. As it was done with Germany and Japan. Leave the job half-done as was the case in Korea and shit comes back to haunt us.
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bob2356
2017 Sep 10, 8:59am
anonymous says
There was plenty of unsuccessful meddling in other countries before WWII. The banana wars, Russia, China.
https://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/interventions.html
SpecialSnowflake says
You are all for paying for this and sending your children to fight and die? I doubt that. The hard core hawks are always all about borrowing the money from future generations and sending other peoples children to die. Not to mention avoiding war themselves. Remind me how many draft deferments bush and trump have between them.
Too bad we don't have the same type of will and leadership we had post WWII because since that time most everything we touch or get involved with turns out really badly.
There was plenty of unsuccessful meddling in other countries before WWII. The banana wars, Russia, China.
https://academic.evergreen.edu/g/grossmaz/interventions.html
SpecialSnowflake says
But only when we hit the fucks with full force and don't rest until they are properly defeated, pacified and reformed through long occupation.
You are all for paying for this and sending your children to fight and die? I doubt that. The hard core hawks are always all about borrowing the money from future generations and sending other peoples children to die. Not to mention avoiding war themselves. Remind me how many draft deferments bush and trump have between them.
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Strategist
2017 Sep 10, 9:27pm
Strategist
2017 Sep 10, 9:27pm
bob2356 says
No one wants war, but if we don't stop maniacs who threaten us from getting nukes, we risk extinction.
We stopped the
Emperor of Japan.
The dictator of Germany
The communists of the Soviet Union.
The commies of China.
We still need to stop crazy dictators, and the soldiers of Allah.
SpecialSnowflake saysBut only when we hit the fucks with full force and don't rest until they are properly defeated, pacified and reformed through long occupation.
You are all for paying for this and sending your children to fight and die? I doubt that. The hard core hawks are always all about borrowing the money from future generations and sending other peoples children to die. Not to mention avoiding war themselves. Remind me how many draft deferments bush and trump have between them.
No one wants war, but if we don't stop maniacs who threaten us from getting nukes, we risk extinction.
We stopped the
Emperor of Japan.
The dictator of Germany
The communists of the Soviet Union.
The commies of China.
We still need to stop crazy dictators, and the soldiers of Allah.
As the crisis unfolded, the Rand Corporation, a military-intelligence think tank founded during the Cold War, relentlessly promoted the views of Bruce W. Bennett, a defense researcher it calls “one of the leading experts on the world’s most reclusive country.” Two or three times a day, Rand’s media shop tweets out links to Bennett’s writings on Kim Jong-un, the 33-year-old who rules the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea (DPRK), its formal and preferred name.
While Trump has vowed to use sanctions, war threats and diplomacy to stop Kim from developing a ballistic missile that could fire nuclear weapons at the United States—exactly what Kim claimed to do on Sunday—Bennett believes that the only target worth considering is North Korea’s “Supreme Leader” himself.
Bennett’s basic theme is that North Korea is teetering on collapse and internal unrest because the military and technocratic elite who run the country have given up on Kim and his dynastic family. It’s a theory that’s been around for decades, but has picked up steam in reaction to Kim’s recent purges, including possibly his own brother and a string of high-level defections that includes Thae Yong-ho, the erudite former North Korea ambassador to London.
As I listened to his spiel, I was reminded of Bennett’s advisory role in the 2014 Seth Rogen comedy The Interview, about two Hollywood stoners hired by the CIA to kill Kim. It depicted, in graphic detail, Kim’s head being blown apart by a guided missile fired by fed-up North Korean “elites” who had come over to the U.S. side after their conversations with the fake American journalists, played by Rogen and his sidekick James Franco.
The film was produced by Japan’s Sony Pictures, but finalized only after receiving critical advice and assistance from the Obama State Department, the Rand Corporation, and according to a 2014 interview Rogen gave to the New York Times, the CIA. (“We made relationships with certain people who work in the government as consultants, who I’m convinced are in the CIA.”) But it was all under the tutelage of Bruce Bennett, who was brought into the project by Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton, a prominent member of Rand’s board of directors and a close confidante of President Obama.
Why Bennett? His official biography states that he has worked for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Forces in South Korea and Japan, the U.S. Pacific Command as well as the South Korean and Japanese militaries. According to an email he wrote to Sony’s Lynton in 2014, he got his start in Asia as a Mormon missionary to Japan and began working on Korea in 1989 “at the request of the Pentagon.” By 2014, he said, he had made over 100 trips to South Korea to advise the U.S. Army and senior South Korean military personnel “on how to deter North Korea.” Even though he has never been to the DPRK, he bases his knowledge of the country on his “extensive interviews with senior North Korean defectors.”
The movie’s plot closely follows Bennett’s vision for regime change from within, and is illustrated in two key scenes.
Full Article - 10-15 minute read. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2017/09/north-korea-obama-regme-change-policy-created-crisis-trump-inherited.html
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