Carlos Martinez: In interviews published posthumously, [US General Douglas] MacArthur said he had a plan that would have won the [Korean] war in ten days: I would have dropped between 30 and 50 atomic bombs ... strung across the neck of Manchuria; then he would have introduced half a million Chinese Nationalist troops at the Yalu, and then, spread behind us - from the Sea of Japan to the Yellow Sea - a belt of radioactive cobalt ... it has an active life of between 60 and 120 years. For at least 60 years there could have been no land invasion of Korea from the North. (Bruce Cumings: North Korea) Is it any wonder the DPRK is a tad sensitive to US threats and bullying? They didnt use atomic bombs in the end, but the US air force dropped napalm as if it were confetti, killing at least 3 million people and turning North Koreas cities to rubble. BTW, the war still hasnt officially ended (an armistice has been in place since 1953); the US maintains thousands of troops stationed in South Korea; the US regularly conducts military exercises with Japan and South Korea, using nuclear-enabled aircraft; the west maintains a continuously hostile, bullying, demeaning and arrogant stance towards the DPRK in all spheres; and practically no-one in the west (including the left) comes to the defence of the DPRK. Its not in the slightest bit surprising that the DPRK objects to the release of The Interview; they are right to do so.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 01:48:57 +0000