{"id":23646,"date":"2017-04-17T18:58:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T23:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23646"},"modified":"2017-04-17T18:58:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T23:58:57","slug":"the-problem-is-washington-not-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=23646","title":{"rendered":"The Problem is Washington, Not North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Problem is Washington, Not North Korea<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Photo by Stefan Krasowski | CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n

Washington\u00a0has never made any effort to conceal its\u00a0contempt for North Korea. In the 64 years since the war ended, the US has done everything in its power to punish, humiliate and inflict pain on the Communist country. Washington has subjected the DPRK to starvation,\u00a0\u00a0prevented\u00a0its\u00a0government from accessing\u00a0foreign capital and markets,\u00a0strangled its economy with crippling economic sanctions, and installed\u00a0lethal\u00a0missile systems and military bases on their doorstep.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Negotiations aren\u2019t possible because Washington refuses to sit down with a country which it sees as its\u00a0inferior.\u00a0 Instead, the US has strong-armed China\u00a0to do its\u00a0bidding\u00a0by\u00a0using their diplomats as interlocutors\u00a0who are expected to\u00a0convey Washington\u2019s\u00a0ultimatums as threateningly as possible.\u00a0\u00a0The hope, of course, is that\u00a0Pyongyang will cave in to Uncle Sam\u2019s bullying and do what they are told.<\/p>\n

But the North has never succumbed to US intimidation and there\u2019s no sign that it will. Instead, they have developed a small arsenal of nuclear weapons to defend themselves in the event that the US\u00a0tries to assert its dominance by launching another war.
\nThere\u2019s no country in the world that needs\u00a0nuclear weapons more than North Korea. Brainwashed Americans, who get their news from FOX or CNN, may differ on this point, but if\u00a0a hostile nation deployed\u00a0carrier strike-groups\u00a0off the coast of California\u00a0while conducting massive war games on the Mexican border (with the express intention of scaring the shit of people) then they might\u00a0see things differently. They might see the value of having a few nuclear weapons to deter\u00a0that hostile nation\u00a0from doing something really stupid.<\/p>\n

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The Problem is Washington, Not North Korea Photo by Stefan Krasowski | CC BY 2.0 Washington\u00a0has never made any effort to conceal its\u00a0contempt for North Korea. In the 64 years since the war ended, the US has done everything in its power to punish, humiliate and inflict pain on the Communist country. Washington has subjected […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[5493,3558,7202,2006,827,865],"class_list":["post-23646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-counterpunch","tag-korea","tag-mike-whitney","tag-north-korea","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23647,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23646\/revisions\/23647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}