Originally published at http://www.commondreams.org/views/2021/05/21/biden-and-moon-are-collision-course-north-korea-and-china
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To begin with, talks between North and South Korea cannot involve the U.S. The U.S. has no moral authority and only brings threats and ill will to the table.
It is also imperative that South Korea demands that all U.S. forces leave South Korea immediately and unequivocally. U.S. forces represent the greater threat to peace in the region and if South Korea asks the Americans to leave, perhaps the Japanese will follow suit.
U.S. aggression towards China is rooted entirely in financial considerations. From losing the U.S. dollar as the primary global currency to accepting the fact that China has passed the U.S. in technology and income, U.S. corporations have turned to the military to prop up unfair trade practices, undermine democracy around the globe, crush people driven initiatives and sabotage any peace initiative that threatens to compromise Wall Street dominance.
Unfortunately, many South Koreans have bought into the false narrative that the U.S. reinforces daily that North Korea is entirely at fault and that the U.S. bears no responsibility for the current armistice. The reality is that the U.S. is the greatest impediment to peace and eventually the reunification of the Korean Peninsula. Until Koreans can eliminate the Americans from even having a voice in peace talks, no progress will be made. If South Koreans fail to realize this, they may soon find their entire country burned to the ground in some ill-conceived foreign policy decision by the corrupt American government to “teach China a lesson”. China, Russia and all of Wall Street’s enemies would prefer to bomb U.S. installations in South Korea or Japan rather than bomb the American mainland if retaliating against U.S. aggression. The failure of eastern Asians to realize this, could spell disaster for all of them as the U.S. inches closer to military provocations with each passing day.
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Remember all the praise for Moon as “the peace president”?
Shades of Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Of all the players involved, Moon was the most sincere & did the most work, by far! All the others hoped for an easy deal in their favor or acted quietly to derail the deal. With genuine partners in peace, Moon would’ve succeeded: they all would have.
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I generally agree, especially with Chinese student achievements, outscoring the US in geography, science, math, and literacy rates. But in overall performance, I have heard that the Chinese are considered the best in civil engineering in practice. Just hearsay from a civil engineering acquaintance who studied in China a bit.p
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Some news just today:
~https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/kim-jong-un-bans-chinese-medicine-at-hospitals-in-north-korean-capital-following-officials-death/ar-AAKfoll
The situation of South Koreans sounds so, so dire in this article. Years of sanctions obviously did nothing for South Korea but starve them more than they already starve themselves. Mr. Kim’s reasoning seems to be flawed in several ways, not an uncommon thing in this year’s COVID world. I wish that the US could try being nice as a diplomatic approach.
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Biden will do what stupid American war mongers always do—continue the conflict for the profits of the military industrialists who are calling the tune on foreign policy–expecting different from a president who has been of the the premier war mongers his whole career is pure fantasy–that said --wish I could feel there was some chance of being wrong
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When Worlds Collide
The Korean War started and ended although it did not officially end. Now, the US, South Korea and North Korea should sign a treaty officially ending that war. The US, South Korea and other nations should also end their sanctions against them .
Biden should go further than Trump did on his talks with Kim. I doubt he will and could even do what the Bushes, Clinton and Obama did which is to continue tension with North Korea. I hope Moon’s successor will continue talks with Kim.
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When you said South Koreans, you meant North Koreans. They are the people under Kim’s rule and suffer from the sanctions imposed by industrial nations.
You included a link, I don’t know why it does not work on my computer when I am on this site. The same goes for emojis, which someone on a different article used.
Oops thanks, I need to slow down.
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Zed, I agree with your assessment on the state of the economy. I must say that I am in shock. Having left the US about fifteen years ago and traveled, mostly while teaching in China, I was required to leave due to my tourist status and COVID. I have visited three states now in the US trying to settle. The poverty of so many overwhelms.
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