The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil -HQ

The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil -HQ

"One Sarin gas attack does not an Arab Spring make".

I think the best thing to do is what the Chinese suggest... for South Korea to talk to North Korea. Same with Syria...talk. Negotiate. Talk more. Talk is good. Will the US ever talk with the Syrian Govt? No. Will the Syrian Govt be willing to talk with the US? Absolutely. Will the US ever talk with the sovereign government of North Korea? No. Will the North Korean Govt choose to talk with the USA? Absolutely. Pride can be a form of an all encompassing Mania...and we do know that, from biblical times, it goeth before a fall. Why choose to fall? Talk, negotiate, be frustrated, fail, be angry, talk again, succeed, negotiate again...much cheaper than war and millions less die. Neither Syria or North Korea present a real threat to life on earth even with weapons of mass destruction. Neither present any threat to the USA...Everyone knows that. The USA is not Asia, Asia is Asia. Asia has to solve the problems of Asia. America is thousands and thousands of miles away, a very foreign country with very strange ideas about self-importance. The Korean War, the War on Vietnam...all for what? The massive bombings of whole societies in Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia...for what outcome? Go on home, US soldiers, go on home, have you got no fucking home of your own? Cut loose on one another in a school, or a church or a shopping centre...that's the kind of war you understand and respect and nurture within yourself. Do it to yourself, not others. Do a good job of it. Win your wars at home.

You can also imagine the madness that the South Koreans would display if Japanese troops, as part of the US contingent went anywhere in or near South Korea. That's a deep and abiding racial hatred based upon sound reason, solid historical and horrific inhuman actions by Japan.

All up, I think we can generally understand why the Kim Dynasty government of North Korea (very similar to the Saudi Royal family government of saudi arabia in terms of human rights abuses and basic non-popularity) is a very paranoid entity. It borders Russia where Russian army forces are now increasing...and Russia certainly has invaded before...it borders China where the Chinese PLA is increasing its significant weaponry and soldier numbers along the Yalu River border, South Korea is unstable now and without a President, and the US is approaching it all with its nuclear arsenal in aggressive mode. That would make anyone paranoid. The history of what happened to Iraq and Libya and Afghanistan just recently is far too clear a lesson for what happens to a defined American strategic geo-poltical target that doesn't have Weapons of Mass Destruction. They are destroyed. They are not rebuilt. If the Kim Dynasty was removed by the USA's military forces from the air, with a ground push from the South, within an hour Russian land and sea and air forces would arrive in Pyongyang from the North, boots and all, as would China land, sea and air forces...would arrive from the East, with the USA pushing up from the South...and then you'd have the great face-off between America, China and Russia, eye to eye, all eyeing off the most valuable strategic piece of real estate on earth. The Great Tectonic Plate. I don't think anyone in their right mind wants that kind of massive world conflagration...except maybe the USA. Mr Kim Jong Un presents as a madman, but he knows the history of Korea very well..and he knows exactly where he lives. His main goal is to preserve himself and his dynasty, and the best way to do that is to quickly acquire as many weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, gas etc as fast as possible. I believe he is very secure in his governance, unlike the US President, and will continue to rule quite badly for many decades to come, simply because, for the World, what does exist now is far better than that what would exist if he was destroyed. He is obviously very adept at mahjong.

Understanding North Korea means understanding all Korea, a country given full independence by the Chinese Dynasty long ago..a Country then invaded and obliterated into serfdom by Japan, the Soviet union, and then half liberated by China. A country of Animism, shamanism, pure Machismo, neo-confucianism, missionary Christianity, Shinto, communism and Juche. This is not an easy country to understand nor to defeat. It will not 'roll over' to suit China, nor the USA, and is not like a vassal state like Australia that is always happy to roll over and take it up the arse from the USA.

The problem with America, England and even Australia telling China to get tough on North Korea DPRK is that although China is the land neighbour of North Korea (and all Korea) , China does not bully North Korea as would be expected say if one was a client state of the USA. China is at pains, philosophically, and traditionally, to not interfere...anywhere. This is why they are so strong now, and more advanced as a civilisation than any empire ever has been. China gave the Korean Peninsula Independence many centuries ago in the Dynasty times and China does not go back on its word. Independence is sacrosanct. At the same time, when the US invaded Korea and took the South, the Soviet Union basically went home from the North and China came in to support North Korea and much communal Chinese and Korean blood was spilled together in that Korean War against America and its allies in the 1950s. Chairman Mao's son was killed by the US in that war and his grave remains in North Korea. There is a strong kin attachment between China and all of Korea. Upon the establishment of the military border between North and South, the Chinese troops and administration just went home. Whereas in the South, The US military remains as an aggressive occupation force today. The great Manchurian human family kinship spreads across both China, Korea and into Russia's Siberia still...and as an ex PLA Colonel mentioned to me in Dalian, in China..."Yes, the DPRK is the worst human government on Earth, but they remain our blood brothers." That the US, apart from the annual buzzing of the North with weapons of mass destruction, would now send an aggressive navy into waters controlled by Korea, China, Russia and Japan, whose navies are all there, this is a very dodgy thing to do. America is not a neighbour, has no historical or kinship ties or responsibilities with any country there, has a history of provocations and attacks, and has a history of devastating anyone they don't like who doesn't have nuclear weapons...and this is why North Korea is very keen on getting some. The bravado of the DPRK is Korean Animist Machismo, equal in both South and North...and respected in both parts of that one Korea. The problem of Korea can only be worked out by the two Korean brothers, not by China, not by neighbour Russia, and certainly not by the very foreign and randomly vicious juvenile USA.

The problem with America, England and even Australia telling China to get tough on North Korea DPRK is that although China is the land neighbour of North Korea (and all Korea) , China does not bully North Korea as would be expected say if one was a client state of the USA.

China is at pains, philosophically, and traditionally, to not interfere...anywhere. This is why they are so strong now, and more advanced as a civilisation than any empire ever has been. China gave the Korean Peninsula Independence many centuries ago in the Dynasty times and China does not go back on its word. Independence is sacrosanct.

At the same time, when the US invaded Korea and took the South, the Soviet Union basically went home from the North and China came in to support North Korea and much communal Chinese and Korean blood was spilled together in that Korean War against America and its allies in the 1950s. Chairman Mao's son was killed by the US in that war and his grave remains in North Korea. There is a strong kin attachment between China and all of Korea. Upon the establishment of the military border between North and South, the Chinese troops and administration just went home. Whereas in the South, The US military remains as an aggressive occupation force today.

The great Manchurian human family kinship spreads across both China, Korea and into Russia's Siberia still...and as an ex PLA Colonel mentioned to me in Dalian, in China..."Yes, the DPRK is the worst human government on Earth, but they remain our blood brothers."

That the US, apart from the annual buzzing of the North with weapons of mass destruction, would now send an aggressive navy into waters controlled by Korea, China, Russia and Japan, whose navies are all there, this is a very dodgy thing to do.

America is not a neighbour, has no historical or kinship ties or responsibilities with any country there, has a history of provocations and attacks, and has a history of devastating anyone they don't like who doesn't have nuclear weapons...and this is why North Korea is very keen on getting some.

The bravado of the DPRK is Korean Animist Machismo, equal in both South and North...and respected in both parts of that one Korea. The problem of Korea can only be worked out by the two Korean brothers, not by China, not by neighbour Russia, and certainly not by the very foreign and randomly vicious juvenile USA.