North Korea "brainwashing" its people to hate US

[5.10 leader]

Maybe the Northe Koreans are being brainwashed to produce an antipathy towards the US but what's new, this kind of thing has been going on throughout time. Not long ago Iranians were the same, before that Cambodians, the list is endless.

Britain has been the victim of similar vitriol in the past (now quite distant); it's all just part of being a world power.

Wait until North Korea becomes a "free" country, which will, I think, happen eventually, and then be amazed at the change in attitude when they need inward investment from the US and other western countries.

 

[Annie]

Duh, that's the ticket, those that agree with US, whether from US, Canada, Euro, are brainwashed, or better yet, their post are chosen for editing.

 

[Annie]

http://www.strategypage.com/onpoint/articles/2004122.asp

"Meanwhile, back in North Korea..."
by Austin Bay
January 22, 2004
Discussion Board on this On Point topic
Saddam Hussein’s regime thrived on the UN’s corrupted Oil For Food program. A tour of Saddam’s Baghdad digs led former CENTCOM commander General Tommy Franks to quip the scam amounted to little more than "oil for palaces." The UN hasn’t begun to account for the stolen billions pumped into Baathist bank accounts and the toney coffers of European luxury goods suppliers. Oil For Food kept Saddam and his killers living like Hollywood stars while Shia children starved.

A similar evil game of elite ritz amidst mass starvation continues in east Asia, except a wag might call North Korea’s shakedown "Food For Fallout." While Kim Jong Il’s strange little Stalinist clique trumpets the development of nuclear weapons, 2.7 million of its citizens face imminent starvation. Last week the World Food Program cut food aid to North Korea because of a lack of foreign donations.

The second round of multi-lateral "six-nation" negotiations intended to remove North Korea’s nuclear fangs as well as resolve what is the world’s worst humanitarian crisis begins next month. North Korea, China, South Korea, Japan, Russia and the US are engaged in an dangerous diplomatic waltz. The only certainties surrounding the negotiations are Japanese and South Korean fear, increasing Chinese and American frustration, and North Korean brinkmanship.

North Korea’s stone-broke police state is a sad reminder of the Soviet Union’s Cold War legacy of guns, guns, and more guns but damn little butter. In the early 1980s the USSR attempted nuclear blackmail in Europe by deploying mobile ballistic missiles. The goal was to crack NATO. The political blackmail bid failed when the Reagan Administration countered by deploying American theater ballistic and cruise missiles to Europe. NATO didn’t crack and the Cold War’s endgame began in earnest. The failure of the Soviet hardliners’ bullyboy strategy gave modernizers (like Mikhail Gorbachev) a chance. Their glasnost and perestroika policies recognized Communism’s grotesque failure to provide butter. They couldn’t reform Communism or save the USSR. However, the

Cold War ended with a whimper, not a nuclear bang. South Korea had hoped for a similar break in the North Korean regime, but if there’s a modernizer in Pyongyang he’s in prison or awaiting execution. Kim Jong-Il is running an extortion racket. His North Korean totalitarian police state is a totalitarian crime state. Various criminal enterprises insure its Communist elites have plenty to eat. In 2003, Australia seized a North Korean freighter packed with heroin. The ship sported expanded fuel tanks for long-distance operations. The bust proved smuggling smack is a North Korean state policy, providing cash for Kim’s caviar.

Nuclear weapons, of course, are Kim’s big stick. The scam goes like this: Pay us off and we won't make bombs. That was the deal Pyongyang offered the Clinton administration in 1994. The United States hoped that meeting North Korea's basic energy and food requirements would ultimately reduce belligerency. However, North Korea made bombs anyway. North Korea calls its latest negotiating gambit "the order of simultaneous action." Pyongyang will "renounce nuclear intentions" if Washington resumes food aid. The US must also provide "written security assurances." This is still "pay us, then we behave."

The schtick’s no longer working quite as slick as it once did. Saddam’s collapse is one reason– post 9/11 America is in the regime change business. That fact certainly spurred Libya’s recent nuclear fold. Stories circulate that Kim Jong-Il believes missile-armed American Predator unmanned aerial vehicles are stalking him.

If Kim casts a wary eye to the sky that may promote flexibility, as the diplomats say.

There are other pressures. North Korea once served Chinese and Russian purposes, providing a saber-rattler to shake the US and Japan. Times have changed. Russia and China have extensive trade relations with Japan and South Korea. A Chinese Army now sits on the Korean border, tasked with stopping the refugees fleeing Kim. Japanese fear is producing changes in Japanese military doctrine. Japan is deploying troops in Iraq. It’s another sign of Japanese defense muscle-flexing. No one in Asia wants a militarily resurgent Japan, particularly China.

The six-way waltz is becoming a five-man conga line with North Korea dancing –and starving– alone.

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[wonderwench]

Originally posted by Spirit_Soul
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[Said1]

Originally posted by Ike
Some of you Americans are so dumb. I dont even know what to say.
a) dont compare a democracy to some theocratic dictatorship. You bloody idiots. Yes, they behave badly...obviously! They're a friggin theocratic dictatorship! North Koreas run by a personality cult and the man with the biggest gun. Of course some north koreans act badly.

Uuuuhhh....which theocracy would that be....communism? The Bad Hair Society

 

[AtlantaWalter]

What amazes me is the fact that we continue to send foreign aid to a country that would cut our throats in a minute had they the chance. When will people realize that "humanitarianism" and "political correctness" does NOT mean feeding/clothing/and keeping our enemies warm!!!

Why do we continue to pour money, hard-earned tax dollars, into the pocketbooks of the enemy to save his people when he himself doesn't care if they survive or not?

With Carl Limbacher and NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...


Thursday, Oct. 17, 2002 8:09 a.m. EDT

Clinton Bankrolled North Korea's Nuke Program

In what now looks like one of the worst foreign policy blunders of the postwar era in light of North Korea's acknowledgement yesterday that it's working to develop nuclear weapons, the Clinton administration poured billions of dollars in foreign aid into the rogue state throughout the 1990s - and earmarked a substantial portion of that aid for North Korea's nuclear energy program.

As NewsMax.com reported in February:

A country designated by President Bush as part of the "axis of evil" received more foreign aid during President Clinton's two terms than any other country in the Asia-Pacific region, a congressional study concluded two years ago.

House Republican Policy Committee Chairman Christopher Cox, R-Calif., said the study conducted by his panel found that under the Clinton administration, North Korea became the "largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid in the Asia-Pacific region," according to the committee's report as quoted by CNSNews.com.

 

[Said1]

The article, as do most, does not mention what sort of aid N.Korea was given. Most aid is tied - meaning it is not a pile of cash given out of the kindess of a nations heart. Aid is a nice sounding concept, but in most cases it's like lending someone $20.00 to shop at your store. Not only to they give you their business, the money has to be paid back with interest. Considering the relationship with the USA and N. Korea, most of the conditions were probably not met, also meaning that N. Korea probably did not recieve all the money promised to them. I know the relationship between countries is much more complicated, but it is possible that one of the conditions may have been to ease up on the propoaganda??