A Korean scholar, Christine Ahn, UC Berkeley,
elucidated the North Korea/South Korea “cold war”
dilemma of the past half-century which all Koreans
have suffered, especially North Korea, speaking this
a.m. (12/20) on DemocracyNow.org.  As usual, we in
the U.S. have been deceived by our government and
media about so many aspects of Koreans’ reality. 
North Korea was occupied by Japan for 35 years, and
the U.S. has maintained its largest military base
(25,000 troops for over 50 years) in South Korea
while North Korea turned to the Soviets for aid. 
Most of North Korea’s resources have gone to their
military for protection from the U.S.  Their nuclear
weapon is all that deters the U.S. from occupying
North Korea, as well.  It seems that each time you
really dig in and uncover the other side of the
story, U.S. imperialist policies are found at the
root of the misery—again and again.

Truthdig: Drilling beneath the headlines??!!
WTF?

Here’s something the western media patriotically ignored:

May 26, 2010
South Korea in the line of friendly fire
By Kim Myong Chol
[Editor’s note: ... On Monday, South Korea announced it was suspending almost all trade links with North Korea in retaliation for the torpedoing of its warship Cheonan with the loss of 46 lives…]

The South Korea-led multinational investigation team of the March 26 night sinking of the South Korean corvette Cheonan held a news conference in Seoul on May 20 to unveil its finalized forensic report with false findings pointing a finger at North Korea.

The report has all the hallmarks of rushing to invoke an all-too-familiar North Korean bogeyman in a bid to cover up the US role in a friendly fire incident.

The May 20 report is the only visible part of the iceberg-like “proof” that the South Korean people and the world public have all been lied to.

...It is safe to state that the May 20 presentation is another lie of the century, as was the February 5, 2003, speech by the then-US secretary of state Colin Powell at the United Nations.

As the Powell speech paved the way for the invasion of Iraq by the US-led “coalition of the willing”, the May 20 report carries strong risks of trading charges quickly escalating into a nuclear war between two nuclear powers, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States.

excerpted from:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/LE26Dg01.html

Very typical of the US dogs of war—never admit to error— & always blame someone else.  It helps keep enemies angry.

For some reason, i respect world leaders who don’t kiss the asses of US “authorities”. They tend to be demonized by the media. Hugo Chavez & Fidel Castro are heroic figures in my view.

Kim was cruel but for the most part a rational actor on the world stage.  He certainly did better against US imperialism and terror than Saddam or Osama did.

My question is how will the death of “the devil we
know” change when his 20-something son takes power
(nuclear power, no less!). What do we really know about
the son’s character?  Will he be more malleable, naive,
easier to manipulate, more open to negotiation with So.
Korea? Will he actually have original ideas or personal
ethics?  Time will soon tell.

Interesting how US propaganda - spreads the view that the US & South Korea are the good guys and that Jong was a villain. When you consider that the USA is responsible for around a million deaths & another million crippled since it’s invasion & occupation of Iraq, & that hundreds of thousands of the victims were children - the idea of the US putting KJ down seems absurd - as if the USA stood on moral high ground.  It is true that the US intentionally agitates North Korea and others to maintain a good collection of enemies—which help bastard americans to justify the massive “defense” (so called) expenditures.  We have almost 30,000 US soldiers stationed in S. Korea… what for?  It’s all about money, power & deception.  The truth will set us free, but it presently seems stranger than fiction.

So, Kim died from ‘exhaustion form working too hard’

Sounds like Newt’s explanation for cheating on his wives - being too patriotic and working too hard for us.  Hah!

Goodbye Han Bwix!

That picture is inappropriate.

It’s something I’d expect from the typical mainstream media propaganda machine, not from Truthdig.

It’as not about liking him or not, it’s about not playing the “he’s eeeeeevvviiiill!” game that Washington and the media like to play.