By សតិវ
អតុ
Just a few days ago President Donald
Trump designated Democratic People's Republic of (North) Korea as a state sponsors of terrorism,
just as Iran , Sudan and Syria . This sounds real menacing. I
mean who are all these terrorists, or terrorist groups that North Korea is
supporting? As it turns out, the whole "state sponsorship of
terrorism" is a bit of a joke. There are no terrorist groups supported by North Korea .
While terrorism is real problem by real
groups that actually commit acts of terrorism (such as the ISIS, or Islamic
State) in which real people
get killed or injured, many of these states don't actually support such
terrorism.
It turns out that the label is just used to embarrass those
countries. The US
wants to punish these regimes for not going along with the wishes of the US
Empire. These countries stand in the way of the US imperialist' agenda. So they get
the label of supporting terrorist groups. Such labels have been
around a long time. At times the US has had real reasons for
designating countries as sponsors of terrorism. Some countries actually do
that. But in the last 30 years that label has been used mostly just to try and embarrass
countries the US
just doesn't like. The "state sponsor of terrorism" is just a propaganda
tool.
Most of us realize that North Korea is not the workers
paradise it portrays itself as. But at the same time it is not the hell hole
that the US
portrays it as either. Just look at the vivid propagandistic blather that The
Washington Post portrays that recent defector soldier from the North:
"The brazen escape of a
North Korean soldier has provided another glimpse at life inside Kim Jong Un's
despotic regime, under which people are cut off from the outside world."
The US
mainstream news media can't muster up enough bad accusations to make life in North Korea
look miserable. But the reality is that life goes
on, as normal as can be expected in that country. The people there may not
have the latest iphones or computers, but they do have the pride of coming from
a country that is not under the thumb of US imperialism. South Korea is practically a colony of the US . Without US
troops the South could never defend itself. The North has to pay for its own
defense while the South can spend a lot of money on building up a massive peace
time economy since the US
pays for most of that country's defenses. There are a lot of bright lights and
flashing electronic toys in the south, but the payoff is that the US almost runs
that country. All its leaders realize that South
Korea depends heavily on the US for its very existence and no
leader would dare to offend the US Empire.
Pix from News.com.au.
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