{"id":29221,"date":"2017-12-29T08:11:29","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T13:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29221"},"modified":"2017-12-29T08:11:29","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T13:11:29","slug":"the-worlds-real-nuclear-menace-isnt-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29221","title":{"rendered":"The World\u2019s Real Nuclear Menace Isn\u2019t North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"

The World\u2019s Real Nuclear Menace Isn\u2019t North Korea<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Photo by Toby Scott | CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

With growing speculation of war with North Korea<\/a> and familiar apocalyptic rhetoric<\/a> in recent times, the United States and North Korea have participated in increasingly bellicose exchanges. These recent exchanges range from President Trump calling on other nations to stop financing and trading with North Korea because it\u2019s a \u201cvery serious nuclear menace<\/a>,\u201d redesignating North Korea as an official state sponsor of terrorism<\/a>, to more North Korean nuclear missile tests<\/a> and American and South Korean joint war games<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In light of the nuclear brinkmanship with North Korea bringing frequent comparisons<\/a> to the Cuban Missile Crisis and discussion of hypothetical worst-case scenarios<\/a>, it\u2019s worth reviewing the United States\u2019 record and examining whether North Korea is really the belligerent nuclear menace the world needs to liberate itself from. As critics of American foreign policy have noticed<\/a>, the United States\u2019 leaders, its media and its citizens never quite seem to recognize the full consequences of their country\u2019s actions in other regions, or investigate its long history of conflict with North Korea.<\/p>\n

To begin in chronological order, touring around the globe, it\u2019s been noted by international relations scholars and historians that the Korean War is partly known as \u201cThe Forgotten War\u201d because Americans have largely forgotten<\/a> \u201cthe utter ruin and devastation\u201d the United States inflicted upon North Korea. It\u2019s not widely known that the United States\u2019 own leaders have admitted to have \u201ckilled off<\/a>\u201d approximately 20% of North Korea\u2019s population throughout the war by targeting \u201ceverything that moved.\u201d Or that the United States destroyed more cities<\/a> in North Korea than it did in Germany or Japan during World War II by dropping more bombs than it did throughout the entire Pacific Theatre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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