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The world has made it absolutely clear that it doesn't care one whit for the suffering of the NK people under this regime and no significant effort has been made to change the regime.

Bruce Cumings, certainly the most authoritative if not the sole US expert on this mysterious conflict, wrote,

“Americans know the Korean War as a “forgotten war”, which is another way of saying that generally they do not know it. A war that killed upwards of four million people, 35,000 of them Americans, is remembered mainly as an odd conflict sandwiched between the good war (World War II) and the bad war (Vietnam).”

This reflects what might be called an especially American form of Manichaeism—for Americans there is only the “good” and the “bad”. The ability to judge either their own individual behaviour or that of their government is limited by this narrow dualism, a recurrent pattern in the way they perceive both domestic and foreign affairs. It is what made Jim Crow a most stringent and insidious form of social engineering: white and black, good and bad, sin and salvation, communism (without understanding it) and democracy (without having it). Bipolar disorder predates the pharmaceutical and confessional waves of the last two decades. In fact this disorder, going back to the country’s founding myth, has been a fundamental obstacle to comprehending the vicious invasion of a fiercely independent Asian country, under the pretext of preserving these supposedly clear moral categories. US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, staunch Presbyterian and corporate mercenary, declared the necessity of a “Christian war” in Asia.[2]

I.F. Stone, a unique American journalist, tried to breach the insipid and seemingly impenetrable barrier in the consciousness of Americans when he first published his Hidden History of the Korean War in 1952—in the midst of brutal fighting in Korea and political purging in his own land. Stone wrote:

“Writing in an atmosphere much like that of full war, I realised that I could be persuasive only if I utilised material which could not be challenged by those who accept the official government point of view. I have relied exclusively, therefore, on United States and United Nations documents, and respected American and British newspaper sources.”[3]

Stone’s history is damning although he deliberately used only published sources and not the disclosure of classified documents. His hidden history is a case study in how the control of the narrative—to use a modern term—successfully prevented and prevents obvious criminal conduct by the government and military from being recognised for what it is.

Hence Professor Cumings asserted that Stone’s non-conformist history “is a textbook on how to read… People with a built-in indifference to history are ill accustomed to retrospective digging, to lifting up rugs, to searching for subterranean forces and tendencies. Exploring the labyrinth of history is alien to the American soul, perhaps because an optimistic people find knowledge of the past too burdensome in the present”[4]

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-hidden-history-of-the-korean-war-2/5402638

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The world has made it absolutely clear that it doesn't care one whit for the suffering of the NK people under this regime and no significant effort has been made to change the regime.

Over 70 years of US terrorism against the people of Korea, war crimes by the US that makes Hitler look like your grandson and still you hew to the propaganda.

Four million Koreans slaughtered by the "liberators", the USA. You know nothing of this massive war crimes yet you still choose to support the deep evil. That has to make you a deeply evil person.

I don't blame you for not trusting Pentagon reports, but in the absence of proof to the contrary it would be petulant to maintain a position that they have lied.

These may seem like relatively small victories ― we’re talking about municipal races in towns with tens of thousands of people

N Korea will have more than the US to contend with. Our allies will support us.

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Well yes, most "scientists" doubting GW are corrupt. They are paid for by Big Oil, so as to confuse the credulous. It's disinformation pure and simple and it works on the American masses.

Nonsense. Scientist's opposed to climate change are no more or less honest than scientists that support climate change. They just see the data differently and the possible effects of what that data represents.

you should also recognize the efforts being advocated and taken today are merely pissing into the wind, woefully inadequate for the problem.

"Well, I want to just start by saying hopefully they're going to have to fear nothing, ultimately. Right now there is a fear, and there are problems -- there are certainly problems. But ultimately, I hope that there won't be a fear and there won't be problems, and the world can get along. That would be the ideal situation.

"It's crazy what's going on -- whether it's the Middle East or you look at -- no matter where the -- Ukraine -- you look at -- whatever you look at, it's got problems, so many problems. And ultimately, I believe that we are going to get rid of most of those problems, and there won't be fear of anybody. That's the way it should be."

So somehow the fact that the US "slaughtered" 4 million Koreans has a bearing on whether or not a) The Kim Dynasty has "slaughtered" millions of Koreans and b) The world cares?

You seem to be very tolerant of slaughterers as long as they're not Americans.

We long ago established I am a deeply evil person, so you are just being boorishly redundant with this constant line of attack.

You are the guy who would see all Syrians murdered to save your grandson.

This sort of back and forth is pointless.

Yup. A PR stunt in all likelihood.