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Allies conduct exercise to mark Korean War anniversary
June 25, 2012, By Walter T. Ham IV, Eighth Army Public Affairs
Most all Koreans know:
President Theodore Roosevelt (obediently?) ordered State Department to deal only with the Japanese military mission in representing US interests, closing US Korea diplomatic channels. Racist President Woodrow Wilson officially recognized Korea as territory of the Japanese Empire. At the Versailles Treaty conference, he refused to listen to Koreans petitioning for freedom from Japan, a US ally in WW I. This state of affairs remained through for a total of forty (for Koreans miserable) years, right through President Franklin Roosevelt's administrations, although FDR did eventually call for freedom for all the colonies of the Colonial Powers once WW II was over.
(All educated Koreans and citizens of other former colonies know about this in essence, and of course so do American historians and the descendants and heirs of the early American backers of Hitler like Ford, DuPont, Rockefeller, Joe Kennedy, Prescott Bush and the CEOs of most all major US corporations all having had factories or offices in Nazi Germany.)[1]
4. - that the Russians allowed the formation of a socialist government led by workers unions and organization of farmers; that the investor ruled Washington government disallowed such a government and much of the business community that had prospered under the Japanese (and collaborated with Japanese exploitation of Korea came to be lucratively favored over the workers and farmers during the forming a government in the south.
5. that to this day the North commands the respect among the artist communities in the South (carefully muffled in relative silence since for years such an attitude discovered could mean imprisonment or even death. Notice it is well know and well reported in Western media that it is still a high crime punishable by prison sentence or worse to visit the North, and very dangerous to speak well of the Northern government.[2]
7. that in social discourse in South Korea, Syngman Rhee name is an embarrassment and/or negative memory and avoided. From school books my Korean friends born after 1970 remember only his having been the first president after the war being noted and little else. In the most Confucian society on Earth, one avoids uncomfortable mention of untoward past happenings. [2]
10. - Koreans know their nation, helpless after forty years of Japanese occupation, was ripped apart and families separated with brother forced to fight brother causing unimaginably deep suffering all for having been made made a pawn in the Cold War. This writer remembers New York Times front pages with photographs of visiting US congressmen in the trenches binoculars trained to the north, above dramatic reports of Senators calling for 'cutting the ropes' holding back the South's Syngman Rhee from sending his army North to clean out the communists, so incongruous, even incomprehensibly weird in view of the easy victory of the North a bare few weeks later.
In retrospect this was just one of hundreds of past US corporate governance macabre beating of war drums that continues today, but now with a media much more in control of how Americans shall be made to think. In 2012, Americans in general are still foolishly being conned into supporting atrocities by its military for the benefit of investor global hegemony, while begging America's wealthy, who long have had ownership or control over half the world's wealth and resources, to hire Americans in place of cheaper overseas labor, and accepting that there is some economic mystery involved that cannot be solved - though professed to be solvable by the two presidential candidates they are allowed by media to divert themselves arguing about.
2/27/2008
NY Phil Plays in a Korea Once Destroyed by U.S. Invasion, Flattened by U.S. Bombers
Beautiful telecast. Koreans interviewed spoke of avowed resolve to protect their country,they knew Americans were their enemies, spoke softly, politely, with calm pleasant countenance. Americans can go on thinking they were good guys doing good. But they might like to remember that 'good' was done in Korea, to Koreans, all of whom were not in agreement that it was for their own good. Picasso's Cheju Massacre Painting sobering.
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5/27/2009
U.S. Threat to Atom Bomb North Korea Never Forgotten On Nov. 30, 1950, President Truman at a press conference, remarked that the use of the atomic bomb was under active consideration. Koreans heard this as menacingly foreboding apocalypse, for U.S. forces were in retreat, and had suffered losses when China send 'volunteer' forces to N. Korea 45 days earlier. North Korea going to great expense to acquire nuclear capability. Is memory of that U.S. threat to Nuke fueling paranoia?
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4/6/2009
Obama Calls on UN to Punish North Korea Over Rocket, but WHO PUNISHES THE U.S.?
Commercial media feeding frenzy on the space missile launch by North Korea at the same time whipping up fear of Iran. Obama has harsh words for North Korea, as earlier for Afghanistan, Pakistan, Venezuela and Iran, which received a kind invite to talk mixed in with such severe public criticism as to make the invitation unacceptable. So far, Obama, both as president and as commander-in-chief belies change to serious diplomacy.
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6//9/2010
N. Korean Torpedo Accusation Fizzles - Strong Probability of US Mine Strike Investigated
The self-righteous scowling countenance of Mrs. Clinton reminded us of a serious Colin Powell pointing to photos of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction trucks, of Adelai Stevenson's photo evidence that planes that bombed Cuba were not U.S. planes, of Robert McNamara on the Gulf of Tonkin attack on innocent U.S. warships, of the John Foster Dulles proving that communists, not capitalists, were out to conquer the world.
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6/16/2010
NY Times, AP Consistently Leaving Out Debunking Info on "N. Korean Torpedo' Claim
Even capitalist South Korea's major newspapers have carried the friendly-US-fire suppositions re its blown up warship by both a Russian Navy investigation and Japanese investigative reporters. It is difficult to even find having been reported in U.S. media the simple and diplomatic Chinese answer to the U.S. asking help to punish North Korea on the basis of a U.S. 'international investigation' finding. "Not creditable."
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4/17/2009
On the Need for Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in America
In 2005, in keeping with its maturation as a constitutional democracy, the South Korean National Assembly established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to seek to "reveal the truth behind civilian massacres during the Korean War and human rights abuses during the [South Korean] authoritarian period and recent evidence of U.S. and South Korean responsibility for the massacre of civilians before and during the Korean War."
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The asinine and freaky idea of a few times a year provocatively blasting off with artillery, missiles and rockets so close to the coast of North Korea that the reverberations are heard in its capital Pyongyang!
Years after having bombed Korea cities and towns flat in both the north and south, murdering millions of Koreans in their own country, threatening to drop Atomic bombs on Korea and punishing the North Korean population with sixty years of severe economic sanctions while having US war-promoting corporate owned commercial media portray North Korea's strong military government and its arsenal of a few atomic weapons as unneeded, comes the sixty-second anniversary show of how homicidal, belligerent and dangerous the United State of America is.
Is the message perhaps, that the gargantuan colonial superpower still plans to finish what a half million Chinese sacrificed lives stopped it from doing a half-century ago? And where might it be on the community of investment banking agenda? After seeing to the conquering of the rest of the oil rich Middle East and toppling the five Latin American anti-US-global-imperialism socialist minded governments and that nasty holdout against the New World Order (same as the old colonial world order of total white nation supremacy with invided Japanese membership)? Before the war with China and Russia being planned to use up the huge inventory of weapons of mass destruction so heavily invested in, make a separate second US-Korean war superfluous?
Footnotes:
[1]
see OEN article 6/9/2011 and its footnoted documentation sources.
US Invested Heavily in Hitler Compensated Europe's Jews with Arab Land - Therefore: [Part 1]
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[2] Author lived among Koreans while a professor at a university in Seoul for seven years and heard much of the continued reverence and for the maintenance of Korean cultural purity in the North in subdued and careful conversations with colleagues in the art world.
[3] see OEN 4/17/2009
On the Need for Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in America
In 2005, in keeping with its maturation as a constitutional democracy, the South Korean National Assembly established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to seek to "reveal the truth behind civilian massacres during the Korean War and human rights abuses during the [South Korean] authoritarian period and recent evidence of U.S. and South Korean responsibility for the massacre of civilians before and during the Korean War."
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[4]
On May 22, William Gleysteen, U.S. ambassador to South Korea, wrote in a cable to President Jimmy Carter's security advisers: "Kwangju is ... out of control and poses an alarming situation for [the Korean] military ... at least 150,000 people are involved."
Despite his public policy of supporting human rights, Carter refused to back the massive democracy uprising in South Korea. At that very moment, the United States was facing a huge crisis in Iran, following the uprising that brought Ayatollah Khomeini to power.
In public, the Carter administration condemned the bloody attack on Kwangju. But in private, White House officials feared Korea would spin out of control. Carter's top aides quietly backed Gen. Chun's use of South Korea's Special Forces to gain control of Kwangju.
The full story of this sellout of Korea's democracy movement was uncovered a few years ago in the "Cherokee files," thousands of secret documents about the Kwangju events that our government released in a Freedom of Information request from Journal of Commerce reporter Tim Shorrock.
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