Korea
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Media: While US, North Korea Both Make Threats, Only One Has Killed Millions of the Other's People
The Korean War, in which the United States invaded the North on behalf of South Korea, claimed the lives of over 2 million North Koreans. The US dropped as many munitions as it had dropped on the entire Pacific Theater in World War II—a four-year conflict ranging over tens of millions of square miles, as… Continue reading
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Unmasked: Trump Doctrine vows carnage for new axis of evil By Pepe Escobar
This was no “deeply philosophical address”. And hardly a show of “principled realism” – as spun by the White House. President Trump at the UN was “American carnage,” to borrow a phrase previously deployed by his nativist speechwriter Stephen Miller. One should allow the enormity of what just happened to sink in, slowly. The president… Continue reading
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UN Security Council Resolution 2375 on North Korea: Preparation for War? By Carla Stea
There is now a discernible pattern to US manipulation of the UN Security Council when it wants UN endorsement for US-NATO acts of aggression. It is a formula which led to the destruction of Iraq and Libya, and in 1950-1953 led to the destruction of North Korea and most of South Korea. This deadly trajectory… Continue reading
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CNN Celebrates ‘Joy’ of McCain a Day After His Genocidal Threat
Professional truth-teller and self-appointed Russian counter-propagandist Jake Tapper had Arizona Sen. John McCain on his State of Union show (CNN, 9/10/17) for a chummy interview Sunday night. The interview began with Tapper lobbing softballs at McCain about his mortality and reminiscing about buddying up on the 2000 campaign trail (Tapper was, according to his then-editor… Continue reading
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The Truth About North Korea: Selected Articles
5 September 2017 — Global Research The mainstream media has vilified North Korea, without acknowledging that the US has threatened to attack the DPRK with nuclear weapons for more than half a century. Who is a threat to global security, Kim Jong-un or Donald Trump? Read our selected articles below. Continue reading
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Proposal for a Lasting Korea Peace Agreement: Signing of a Bilateral North-South Korea Peace Treaty By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
The US sponsored state of war de facto is directed against both North and South Korea. It is characterised by persistent military threats (including the use of nuclear weapons) against the DPRK. It also threatens the ROK which has been under US military occupation since September 1945. Continue reading
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Understanding North Korea By Dr. Robert Rennebohm
21 August 2017 — Global Research Taking a History and Testing Hypotheses When there is conflict between two parties, it is best if each party tries to understand and think from the other’s point of view, as opposed to thinking only from their own point of view and perpetuating misconceptions regarding the other’s view. When a Continue reading
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U.S. and North Korea: Testing Each Other’s Brinkmanship? Selected Articles
12 August 2017 — Global Research The scare-/warmongers in Washington lambasted North Korea for posing yet another ‘grave danger’ to global security after it has successfully launched a tiny nuclear warhead into its arsenal. Trump threatened Kim Jong-un with ‘fire and fury’ (which relates to an attack with nuclear weapons) should the DPRK continue with its Continue reading
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Hyping the Threat from North Korea
Embedded deep beneath the country’s mountainous zones are some 200 varieties of minerals, including gold, iron, copper, zinc, magnesite, limestone, tungsten, and graphite, Quartz reports. The total value of these minerals lies somewhere between $6 trillion and $10 trillion. Continue reading
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Video: 72 Years After Bombing Nagasaki, US Threatens Another Nuclear War
TRNN examines the myth that using nuclear weapons on civilian populations was necessary to force Japan to surrender Continue reading
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Geography 101: “Get Trump an Atlas”. Trump Wants to Bomb North Korea With Nuclear Weapons. Where is the Target Country? By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
While Americans are ignorant regarding the World’s geography, they nonetheless expect that their elected president as well as his foreign policy advisers know “where the countries are”, particularly those countries which are on the Pentagon’s hit list. Continue reading
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ICH Headlines 9 August 2017
9 August 2017 — Information Clearing House The Madman With Nuclear Weapons is Donald Trump, Not Kim Jong-un By Mehdi Hasan Think I’m being unfair? http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/47579.htm Continue reading
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Dark Side of Mr. Moon – Pushing for War on Korean Peninsula
Activists in South Korea were excited and fairly optimistic that the election of liberal President Moon Jae-in might help deescalate tensions on the peninsula. They hoped that he would block further deployments of the provocative THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) missile defense system and even demand that the US pull back the two THAAD… Continue reading
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Media: Missile Defense Will Protect You From North Korea, Say USA Today’s Missile Defense-Funded Sources
The piece contains no sources at all substantiating the “N. Korean nuke threat”: “North Korea’s rapid march to develop a nuclear-armed ballistic missile capable of striking the United States” is simply asserted in the lead, and later on the claim that “North Korea may be only a year or so away” from having missiles that… Continue reading
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Selected Articles: US Warmongering Against North Korea
6 July 2017 — Global Research The latest missile test by North Korea was damned by the US as a serious threat to global security. Not surprising. All the right minds with the right awareness of global affairs substantially know that these ballistic missile programs of North Korea are but for defense, never for first strikes. Will Continue reading
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Selected Stories: The North Korea Nuclear Issue 15 May 2017
15 May 2017 — Global Research North Korea’s Concern for Self-Defense. The DPRK Missile Test By Stephen Lendman, May 14, 2017 America wages permanent wars, destroying one nation after another, threatening all sovereign independent countries with regime change. Its agenda is humanity’s greatest threat. The DPRK has just cause for concern about another US launched devastating war Continue reading
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Lockheed Martin-Funded Experts Agree: South Korea Needs More Lockheed Martin Missiles
In the past year, FAIR has noted 30 media mentions of CSIS pushing the THAAD missile system or its underlying value proposition in US media, most of them in the past two months. Business Insider was the most eager venue for the think tank’s analysts, routinely copying–and–pasting CSIS talking points in stories warning of the… Continue reading
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Media: NYT’s ‘Impossible to Verify’ North Korea Nuke Claim Spreads Unchecked by Media
Buoyed by a total of 18 speculative verb forms—five “mays,” eight “woulds” and five “coulds”—New York Times reporters David E. Sanger and William J. Broad (4/24/17) painted a dire picture of a Trump administration forced to react to the growing and impending doom of North Korea nuclear weapons. Continue reading
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Media Lens: West Coast: BBC News Massively Hypes North Korean ‘Threat’ To The United States
Despite standard media misrepresentations to the contrary, North Korea has been following ‘a pretty rational policy’ in the face of ‘hostile acts’ and ‘harsh sanctions’ from, in particular, the US. You would never know that if you relied solely on ‘mainstream’ media such as BBC News. Continue reading
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North Korea: ‘The Only Sensible Path at This Point is Dialogue’
Janine Jackson: The Washington Post suggests that people in Seattle and San Francisco “should be worried” about being hit by a ballistic missile from North Korea, citing an analyst who described such an event, a bit cryptically, as “a looming threat but not a current threat.” If the concern is that the saber-rattling between Kim… Continue reading
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