North Korea hates America

So this week we learnt that North Korea hates America. I'm starting to notice a trend here of things we already knew. Whats new you ask? Well this week the UN security council (of which the UK is a permanent member along with China, Russia, France and the US, basically the winners of WW2 formed a little group to try and keep world peace) is voting on whether or not to impose new sanctions against North Korea (I use the term North Korea here as opposed to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea mainly because this is how most western countries refer to it but also because its the most ironic state name ever!) for its recent nuclear test.

This in itself is not something new because we've been here before when they launch a rocket or dropped a bomb and the UNSC imposes some "sanctions" on North Korea, but this time the rhetoric coming out of the communist north is somewhat disturbing. They threaten to tear up the armistice agreement between the North and South (technically they are still at war having not signed a peace treaty) and then launch "surgical strikes at any time against the "US imperialists" and South Korean "puppet forces"! Although they threaten to do all this and start a thermonuclear war, there is no solid evidence they can actually make a nuclear bomb small enough to fit on a rocket.

The fact that China, North Korea's closest ally, is drafting the UN resolution to impose further sanctions on them says volumes about the behaviour of such a rogue state. If China, which is by no means the most developed country (economically and democratically) thinks that they have taken all this nuclear stuff a step too far, then its hard to imagine what people in Downing St or the White House think of it all. Having read several articles on the KCNA(Korean Central News Agency, actually based in Tokyo) it is clear that the (state) media strongly condemn the training exercises and combat drills taken out by US and South Korean forces, and no doubt the government also think this is the case but as always with the North, they are trying to blame their actions on other countries and their "provocations". For example, here is an exert from an article on the KCNA website titled:
"S. Korean Warmongers' Unabated Provocative Saber-rattling under Fire"
"A touch-and-go situation is prevailing on the Korean Peninsula due to the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet forces' madcap drills for a nuclear war against the DPRK.
Key Resolve and Foal Eagle, Ulji Freedom Guardian, Hoguk and other joint military exercises staged by the south Korean puppet group in league with the U.S. every year, creating constant danger of war on the Korean Peninsula, were aimed at invading the DPRK."

If you really wanted to go to war with a country and really had the means of doing so then you would just go and do it, you don't need a provocation or to place the blame on someone else first, that's why I don't think we will see war break out on the Korean peninsula in the near future, purely because they don't have the capabilities, its clear they have the desire to "reunify" the Korean peninsula, but a nuclear bomb? Really? I don't think Kim Jong Un could tie his own shoe laces let alone start World War 3.

 

Dean Roberts