Category: Korea
CIA Intercepts Suggest U.S. Lied About Biological Weapon Use During Its War On Korea
17 September 2020 — Moon of Alabama
During the early 1950s War on Korea the U.S. used biological weapons against North Korea and China. Bombs designed to spread leaflets were filled with plague infested rats and dropped on Korean towns. Various infecting insects were released. Leaflets were contaminated with small pox and then distributed. Several local epidemics were caused by these attacks.
US News Falsely Reports That North Korea Threatened to Nuke US
6 July 2020 — FAIR
In order to eliminate the nuclear threats from the US, the DPRK government has made all possible efforts, either through dialogue or in resort to the international law, but all ended in a vain effort…. The only option left was to counter nuke with nuke.
Does this statement made by the North Korean government sound like a threat to launch a nuclear strike on the US?
CNN’s Portrayal of North Korea as Lawless Aggressor Reverses Reality
Why North Korea blew up the inter-Korean liaison office
20 June, 2020 — what’s left
By Stephen Gowans
“But peace cannot be hoped for on the basis of some making concessions and the others making none. Peace based on the demands of the other side is not peace, it is ignominious surrender, and no revolutionary country sells itself or surrenders.” Fidel Castro. [1]
North Korea recently blew up the “inter-Korean liaison office in the western border town of Kaesong,” an act The Wall Street Journal described, and other Western news media saw as, “provocative.” [2]
Dark Clouds of Military Tension Over the Korean Peninsula, North Korea Waited, Disappointed and Now Angry
19 June 2020 — Global Research
In 2012, a young man educated in the West took over the power in Pyongyang; he has decided to transform North Korea into an ordinary country where people can live decent life.
His name is Kim Jong-un. He has given everything to achieve his objectives. He met three times Moon Jae-in, president of South Korea and three times Donald Trump, president of the U.S.
New Evidence on Clinton Administration Negotiations with North Korea
17 June 2020 — The National Security Archive
Declassified Records Describe U.S. and South Korean Shifting Views of the North
- Kim Young Sam: “I would not trust North Korea despite an agreement”
- Kim Dae Jung: “If they don’t change, they simply have no future”
- Albright went from seeing Kim Jong Il as “strange, moody and hypersensitive” to “practical, pragmatic, decisive, and non-ideological”
8 Day Journey From Hong Kong To Chile, COVID-19 On My Tail
24 March, 2020 — Counter Currents
Text and Photos: Andre Vltchek
My last interview in Hong Kong
Imagine that you are in Hong Kong, in a city where “you are actually not supposed to be”, in the first place. You are ready to go home, to South America. But just two days before your departure, via Seoul and Amsterdam, your first Sky Team carrier, Korean Air, unceremoniously decides to cancel all flights from the territory.
Death And Resurrection In North Korea (Updated)
31 May 2019 — Moon of Alabama
Updated below
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Huffington Post – August 30 2013
Hyon Song Wol, Kim Jong Un’s Ex-Girlfriend, Reportedly Executed For Making Sex Tape
Unconfirmed reports claim the ex-girlfriend of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was executed by firing squad along with 11 others, after the group allegedly made and sold a sex tape.
Hyon Song Wol, a singer in North Korea’s famed Unhasu Orchestra, was killed by machine gun along with 11 other members of the orchestra and the Wangjaesan Light Music Band, another popular state-run music group in North Korea, according to a report in The Chosun Ilbo, South Korea’s largest daily newspaper.
The report, which cites an anonymous source in China, says the group was arrested Aug. 17 for filming and selling a pornographic video featuring themselves.
Fine dust and fossil capital in Korea
16 May 2019 — Climate & Capitalism
Capitalism fouls things up
There is a good reason why there are blue skies in much of the United States while those of us living in Northeast Asia are choking — most of their factories have moved over here.
Judge Identifies CIA Related Man Who Led The Raid On North Korea’s Embassy In Spain
27 March 2019 — Moon of Alabama
A Spanish judge released new information about a raid on the embassy of North Korea in Spain. The leader of the raid was a shady U.S. ‘activist’ who earlier reports from Spain associated with the CIA.
Yet Another Victor Cha’s Attempt to Stall US-DPRK Talks, or was it John Bolton’s? By Konstantin Asmolov
20 March 2019 — New Eastern Outlook
Not long ago, we examined two attempts which were made by Victor Cha—failed US Ambassador to South Korea and one of the most odious foreign policy hawks—to disrupt the North Korea–United States Summit. First, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where Cha is responsible for South Korea, tried to claim a well-known military facility was actually a hidden military base, alleging Kim Jong-un had breached the terms of an agreement which he had never signed. Even Cha’s colleagues from 38 North said that his second report about another missile base was regrettable.
North Korea Warns ‘Gangster-Like’ Tactics of Bolton and Pompeo Undermining Nuclear Talks By Jessica Corbett
17 March 2019 — Common Dreams
“President Trump: Fire Bolton and Pompeo if you have to. Let’s get this process back on track.”
Two weeks after U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un cut short their second summit with no agreement or clear path forward, a top North Korean official said on Friday the “gangster-like” behavior of Trump’s hawkish top officials helped derail the denuclearization negotiations.
UN Works With Intelligence Contractors To Destabilize North Korea Dialogue By William Craddick
17 March 2019 — Disobedient Media
Just a few days after NBC News and National Public Radio (NPR) launched propaganda attempts to undermine the peace process between the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), the United Nations has waded into the fray with a new attempt to build a case for retaining sanctions that have proven to be a sticking point between the negotiation teams.
CIA Blames Its Proxy For Its Raid On North Korea’s Embassy In Spain
16 March 2019 — Moon of Alabama
The CIA is the main suspect in the military style raid on the North Korean embassy in Madrid. It now launched a somewhat hapless effort to deflect from it. The Spanish report in which Spanish government sources accuse the CIA said:
At least two of the 10 assailants who broke into the embassy and interrogated diplomatic staff have been identified and have connections to the US intelligence agency. The CIA has denied any involvement but government sources say their response was “unconvincing.”
Who Ordered The CIA To Assault North Korea’s Embassy In Spain?
13 March 2019 — Moon of Alabama
Did John Bolton, President Trump’s national security advisor, order an assault on the North Korean embassy in Spain to get an advantage in the nuclear talks?
Trump-Kim: Will There be a Third Summit? Selected Articles
6 March 2019 — Global Research
The Trump-Kim Summit: What Really Happened in Hanoi?
By Mike Whitney
Author Michael Haas disputes this account in an article at antiwar.com. Haas says there WAS a counter-offer that expanded Washington’s demands to include other weapons systems unrelated to the nuclear file. Read more…
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Why I Hope Maduro Wins And North Korea Keeps Its Nukes by Caitlin Johnstone
8 February 2019 — Caitlin Johnson
A second summit meeting for the US and North Korea is reportedly scheduled to take place in Vietnam at the end of the month. Expert opinions on where these negotiations are headed range from the insightful to the incredibly naive, with mainstream media consumers consistently finding themselves in the latter category. Trump supporters believe their president is going to pull off some Art of the Deal wizardry and convince Pyongyang to completely denuclearize, and mainstream Democrats believe Trump is being foolish, facilitating the nefarious agendas of an evil dictator. As happens with pretty much all US foreign policy issues these days, the picture is completely obscured by the mass media’s obsessive fixation on Trump.
South Korea: “They Do Nothing Without Our Approval!”
27 October 2018 — NEO
On October 10, 2018, Kang Kyung-wha, the South Korean foreign minister, during parliamentary investigations into the activities of her ministry, stated that Seoul is looking at the possibility of lifting the unilateral sanctions that were imposed on North Korea on May 24, 2010 in response to the sinking of the South Korean patrol ship Cheonan in the Yellow Sea. She added that lifting the sanctions could be an important symbolic step.
The reinstatement of North Korea: What effects on the ‘story’ of socialism?
26 October 2018 — The Saker
by Ramin Mazaheri for The Saker Blog
It seems unlikely – as it defies 73 years of ongoing aggression, warfare, the near-warfare of constant tap dancing on the border, starvation-creating sanctions, false promises, broken promises, racist caricaturing, hysterical knee-jerk anti-socialism, and more besides – but what if Washington finally allows North Korea to reintegrate into the multinational world?
The New Dark Age 