North Korea: What to do?

The country was governed by the Provisional People's Committee for North Korea through 1948. After the Soviet forces' departure in 1948, the main agenda in the following years was unification of Korea from both sides until the consolidation of Syngman Rhee regime in the South with American military support and the suppression of the October 1948 insurrection ended hopes that the country could be reunified by way of Communist revolution in the South.

In a proposal opposed by nearly all Koreans, the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to temporarily occupy the country as a trusteeship with the zone of control demarcated along the 38th parallel. The purpose of this trusteeship was to establish a Korean provisional government which would become "free and independent in due course."[1] Though elections were scheduled, the two superpowers backed different leaders and two states were effectively established, each of which claimed sovereignty over the whole Korean peninsula.

It would be surreal for those of us who have grown up in the wider world, but I imagine that for those born in the North and raised on/forcefed their propaganda from birth, the hunger, public executions, gulags, and tyranny are just ordinary, everyday life.

I would like to think that human beings inherently understand that such an existence is not all the life can offer.

There were a lot of individuals and groups vying for power in the political vacuum left by the withdrawal of the Japanese. Remember, the Japanese had abolished the Korean government decades prior, and there were only resistence groups and Japanese collaborators with any degree of organization. The resistence groups were isolated pockets, mostly, with no real nationwide structure. Those who collaborated with Japan sure weren't going to get any support (many were killed outright).

The whole lot can be brought up before the ICC.

of 1776........we are approaching 60 years after that time

1776 + 60 = 1836

It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent 33 years and 4 months In active service as a member of our country's most agile military force -- the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from a second lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.

I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher-ups. This is typical of everyone in the military service.

See,

The USA - Two Centuries of Aggressive, Rapacious Warfare

http://able2know.org/topic/164913-1#post-4435663

Reading comprehension has never been your long suit.

There was no North Korea in 1836

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... the only way to get a unified Korea is by letting them duke it out. That certainly wouldn't be my first choice, but I don't live there.

That would be nice, but it's probably not the case. From kindergarten on, children are taught patriotic songs about how glorious the Dear Leader was and how wonderful life is in the Worker's Paradise.

Anyway, I made it sound like the propaganda was 100% effective. If defectors' stories are true, it's not. There's some degree of resistance in the population. Just a few weeks ago, the 20,000th NK defector entered SK. No telling how many attempted defectors have been caught by China or border guards and sent back to the North's gulags or shot on the spot.

Let me guess....the USA is a war criminal because breasts were cut off of breast feeding women. How did I guess right...it must be magic.

Systematically, the contras have been assassinating religious workers, teachers, health workers, elected officials, government administrators. You remember the assassination manual? that surfaced in 1984. It caused such a stir that President Reagan had to address it himself in the presidential debates with Walter Mondale. They use terror. This is a technique that they're using to traumatize the society so that it can't function.

I don't mean to abuse you with verbal violence, but you have to understand what your government [the USA] and its agents [the CIA] are doing.

They go into villages, they haul out families. With the children forced to watch they castrate the father, they peel the skin off his face, they put a grenade in his mouth and pull the pin. With the children forced to watch they gang-rape the mother, and slash her breasts off. And sometimes for variety, they make the parents watch while they do these things to the children.

This is nobody's propaganda. There have been over 100,000 American witnesses for peace who have gone down there and they have filmed and photographed and witnessed these atrocities immediately after they've happened, and documented 13,000 people killed this way, mostly women and children. These are the activities done by these contras.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Stockwell/StockwellCIA87_2.html

THE SECRET WARS OF THE CIA:

part II

CIA COVERT OPERATIONS IN CENTRAL AMERICA, CIA MANIPULATION OF THE PRESS, CIA EXPERIMENTATION ON THE U.S. PUBLIC

by John Stockwell

a lecture given in October, 1987

John Stockwell is the highest-ranking CIA official ever to leave the agency and go public. He ran a CIA intelligence-gathering post in Vietnam, was the task-force commander of the CIA's secret war in Angola in 1975 and 1976, and was awarded the Medal of Merit before he resigned. Stockwell's book In Search of Enemies, published by W.W. Norton 1978, is an international best-seller.

Ibid