by Peter Koenig for the Saker blog
The false alarm on a ballistic missile attack on Hawaii last Saturday from North Korea did not help the Peace Talks which were essentially initiated by DPRK’s President, Kim Jong-un. They spread enormous fear of a nuclear annihilation of Honolulu, pulverization of homes and people – of Armageddon for the Hawaiian population. Was this a Trump attempt to boycott the talks? Or was it the war-mongering faction of the deep state wanting more threats of war, scaring the Hawaiian population into believing that this might become reality; pushing them with a false alarm into wanting the devastation once and for all the Korean Peninsula – because an attack on the North would not spare the South? Is the war industry desperate for more wars, more profit? They may be wheezing from exhaustion – as the world is turning towards peace.
Another sign that the empire, the rogue controllers of the universe, are running on empty, that they are in sheer fear of losing their grip of the world, is that Canada and the US have decided to hold an international meeting in Vancouver, Canada, on North Korea on 15 and 16 January 2018. The Conference is hosted by Canada, sponsored by the US. In addition to Canada and the US, there are 18 countries in the “Vancouver Group”, including Denmark, Greece, Norway, New Zealand and others – but not Russia, nor China — and most ridiculously of all – North Korea itself is absent. Russia and China will be briefed at the end of the meetings, in the evening of 16 January; that was the proposal. – Have these wannabe hegemons along with their breath also lost their marbles?
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said the obvious: This is not acceptable. Adding with his always positive humor, “With all due respect towards those who came up with such an initiative, I don’t expect anything productive. Hopefully, nothing counterproductive will happen. It’ll be a great result already, while it’s hardly believable.”
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The Peace talks were initiated under the pretext of the North wanting to participate in the South’s winter Olympics in PyeongChang in February this year. A clever move. It reminds of the Ping Pong diplomacy between Nixon’s America and China of the early 1970’s. Interestingly this was the thawing of relations between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) which was being ‘sanctioned’ – alas! sanctions are not new! – because of Beijing’s ‘interference’ in the totally illegal, unjustified and devastating US-led Korean war which from 1950 – 1953 totally destroyed North Korea with a death toll of at least 4 million people, almost half of the then North Korean population. The US bombs left not a brick untouched in the now DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea). The goal of this inhuman atrocity was then, as are Washington’s 60 years-plus aggressions towards Pyongyang today, an attempt of further encroaching on China with the final goal of full domination.
The US table tennis team was in Nagoya, Japan, in 1971 for the 31st World Table Tennis Championship, when in April 1971 the team received an invitation to visit Beijing. Hence started a diplomatic journey which later opened the (flood) gates for an immense, intense and at times controversial trade relationship between Washington and Beijing. For the PRC sports played an important diplomatic role, reflected in the slogan “Friendship First, Competition Second”.
Was Pyongyang inspired by this example of sports paving the way for a new and improved relationship between brothers? – Possibly. Yet. It is not clear, who really took the initiative, and who persuaded the Donald to be quiet and let it happen? – Will he indeed be quiet and let these historic peace talks take place undisturbed? What is happening behind the curtains in Trump’s camp – other than the Vancouver Group gathering – is anybody’s guess. That these Peace Talks are taking place is what the world should concentrate on – a step forwards in a peace movement that cannot be undone. It is a master piece of two sovereign nations to cement their relationship which unites them, plus portions of China and today’s Russian Federation with a 5000-year history.
It is important to understand Korea’s history to understand that everything that comes out of the lie-infected mouthpieces of Washington is incoherent and does not fit reality, the thousands of years of a peaceful Korea, whose believes are still today largely influenced by Confucius. The history and image of thousands of years of peaceful Korea is a revelation. See box – below.
Korea’s 5000 years of history is said to have started with the kingdom of Gojoseon (2333 – 108 BC). At that time, the kingdom encompassed a large portion of Manchuria, today parts of China and the Russian Federation. It was the first ancient Korean kingdom and was founded upon “Hongik Ingan” as its national ideal. It means “changing the world beautifully through love and service instead of violence and war.” This principle was and still is highly admired by their strong neighbor, China. It is deeply ingrained and very much alive in the spirit of the Korean people. There is no threat coming out of Korea – either North or South. |
Returning to today’s reality – only a few weeks ago, all fifteen members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) have condemned the DPRK as an aggressor that has to be punished, piling insult after lies and more insults on President Kim Jon-un and on his nothing-else-but-defense strategy. Today, the same UNSC should get together again and unanimously praise DPRK for this tremendous feat of against all odds engaging in peace talks with its natural brother for millennia. Why will such praise for a peace-loving nation not happen? – Because the Donald’s and Nikki Haley’s of this world, the master aggressors of the universe, and all the President’s Men and Vassals, would have to bite their tongue.
However, we know this is not the end of it. Washington still has more than 28,000 servicemen and women stationed in South Korea and a deadly arsenal of warships, fighter planes and nuclear bombs to strike – preemptively if the hegemon deems it necessary. Never mind that 80% of South Koreans want this murderous occupation to end. Similar with Japan’s Okinawa US base with more than 40,000 US servicemen and women – the vast majority of Japanese, and especially Island inhabitants, want them out. They bring crime, drugs, prostitution and even murder to the island. Rapes are on the rise.
May these Korean talks set in motion something bigger than just peace talks between two brothers. Could this first serious encounter in over sixty years (delegations of the two countries have met in 2014 for an exchange of family visits) become an eye-opener for the 15 UNSC members who thoughtlessly dished out murder sanctions to North Korea just a few weeks ago?
Could this be an eye-opener for the world, showing how fake the entire UN-operation has become, how subservient to the paymaster they have become? Could this be a signal for China and Russia that their non-veto, their submission to the bully, for whatever strategic reason they may have had – was a mistake? – Or would they simply claim credit for what is happening – that threats and sanctions do work? Any thinking people who know the history and Mission of Peace of Great and Ancient Korea, the Gojoseon Kingdom – and surely China and Russia ought to know it – will see either how ignorant the world is, or else, how blood- and greed thirsty humanity has become under the Kingdom of Capitalism.
The two Koreans may have seized the opportunity to fulfill their highest goal, to become one again, bringing their families together in a lasting way; initiating a movement of joy and harmony; a new era of unification that cannot be broken. This is fully in line with the Buddhist preachings of love, still deeply enshrined in the two Koreas.
President Kim Jong-un has always and repeatedly said that he is not seeking war, is not threatening anybody, but that the nuclear arms are a defensive weapon aiming only at the aggressors – the one and only aggressor, the United States, which for over 60 years-plus has not let go, not allowed converting a shaky armistice agreement into a peace agreement. The people of the DPRK want nothing more than peace.
Wars over the last century and especially during the last 17 years – with the onset of the eternal “war on terror”, the one business terminology that drives the profit of the military-security industrial complex, has become so ingrained in people’s minds, that a world of peace, harmony and love is almost unimaginable.
Under what type of regime would a united North-South Korea function? A hard-core socialism, DPRK style, a Seoul type capitalism, with a soft Moon Jae-in touch, or a Chinese type socialism with a capitalist coating, yet controlled by a centralized socialist party? – Difficult to predict at this point, but given Korea’s historic link to Manchuria, to both today’s China and Russia, it would likely be a political model of social sensitivity.
The regional pressure led by China to withdraw the US military base from the Korean Peninsula would grow – and in parallel the Japanese people would find an additional argument for expelling the US occupiers from the beautiful island of Okinawa. Would the US supported puppet leaders – leaders, not people – Japan, Guam, Singapore Philippines, Indonesia, Australia – cave in to peoples’ pressure and kick the war hounds out of their sovereign territories, as they should, if they want to deserve even a shred of the meaning of democracy?
Let me dream for a moment: If this tremendous endeavor – peace and unification – were to succeed, it might set an agenda in motion, the world at large has not thought of yet. China and Russia would come out stronger with their objective of a multi-polar world.
Mr. Putin, who supports the Moon-Kim Plan knows very well what political role the Olympics play – and how sports act in politics. He and Russia are living “sports as politics” almost on a daily basis. Russian athletes being banned from Olympics, and other sports events; Russian athletes constantly being singled out for doping, when the number of US athletes caught doping is much larger. US sports people found doping fill pages on Internet, but nobody cares to look – and dares speaking up against injustice. The Olympic committee is a puppet of the same league as are the United Nations, the European Union and all the international courts. For what reasons? – I can only think of cowardice. That’s what globalized neoliberalism has made us – afraid of sanctions, afraid to stand up for justice and instead subservient to integrity. That’s greed above ethics.
President Putin, along with the Presidents Moon and Kim, cleverly turns sport around as a peace initiative – who could oppose banning DPRK athletes from participating in South Korea’s Olympics – and behind the scene is an actual peace initiative being mounted that could literally turn the world’s techtonic power plates around. Dynamics of such developments, coupled with a rapid shift towards more economic equilibrium, already taking plae in the form of SCO’s growing strength and with increased monetary independence from the west – such dynamics are unpredictable. But they could rapidly move our civilization from darkness into light.
Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a former World Bank staff and worked extensively around the world in the fields of environment and water resources. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for Global Research, ICH, RT, Sputnik, PressTV, The 21st Century (China), TeleSUR, The Vineyard of The Saker Blog, and other internet sites. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution! – Essays from the Resistance.
Excellent perspective on ancient cultures that the barbarians of the west have barely glimpsed. Thank you.
It’s a noble dream, Peter Koenig, and some of it is already reality, while much of it stands a very good chance of becoming real. Peace, indeed. Buddhists know that there is no fixed quality in human nature that predisposes it to war. The human mind loves peace, yearns for it, and older cultures still know this.
So in the words of Martin Luther King: “How long? Not long.”
Wonderful comment, Grieved, on a very sensitive article by Peter Koenig.
Indeed, there is an opportunity now for important changes in the Korean peninsula. North Korean resolution to defend itself by deterrence will be seen in history as a brilliant decision. Their weapons were NOT designed for war; they were designed for peace.
PK
“Was this a Trump attempt to boycott the talks? Or was it the war-mongering faction of the deep state wanting more threats of war, scaring the Hawaiian population into believing that this might become reality; pushing them with a false alarm into wanting the devastation once and for all the Korean Peninsula – because an attack on the North would not spare the South?”
If the false missile alert was set up by the zionazis, it may have backfired on them.
Tulsi Gabbard destroys North Korea, Libya and Iraq narrative in 30 seconds (Video)
http://theduran.com/tulsi-gabbard-destroys-north-korea-narrative-in-30-seconds-video/
See also:
Watch A Sitting Congresswoman Shred The MSM Narrative In Under A Minute
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-15/watch-sitting-congresswoman-shred-msm-narrative-under-minute
And:
N.Korea faces unrealistic preconditions, US regime change policy made it seek nukes – Tulsi Gabbard
https://www.rt.com/usa/416131-us-north-korea-nuclear-gabbard/
That false missile alert gave Gabbard air time to argue for serious negotiations. Apparently she got a decent amount of coverage. Many people got to hear the adult view, people who would not normally hear this side.
Meanwhile, the people in Hawai’i got to experience first hand the emotions of actually facing war coming to them. I’ll bet quite few zombies and semi-zombies had a rude awakening and stopped thinking war was some abstract thing that doesn’t really threaten them.
I’m going to speculate that false missile alert probably convinced more people to oppose war against DPRK than it convinced people to want the u.s. to attack.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard: “It’s Overthrowing the Syrian Government Worth
Risking Nuclear War with Russia?”
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2015/december/04/rep-tulsi-gabbard-is-overthrowing-the-syrian-government-worth-risking-nuclear-war-with-russia/
Ah yes, all their bad actors move to the fore when the Really Big Show gets going.
Japan has been exercising a nuclear disaster since Fukushima. Hawaii is merely a varation on the main theme of the great nuclear false flag to come, initiated by the Pentagon but blamed on North Korea, itself a satrap of the Pentagon as reported by William Engdahl.
The Vancouver meeting is about getting all the main Rothschilds owned plantations to sing and act with just one voice. A new day is dawning and all the things you thought were impossible will suddenly be ‘normal’ in the Brave New World to come.
many indication of some sort of atomic event as a Casus B.
it may be a real gadget though, with really dead…just the attribution…like Goering yelling about the commies as he wiped the gasoline traces off his shoes.
Was the Hawaiian “false alarm” really a mistake, or was it some kind of American provocation to gin up public fear and hysteria?
Hawaii’s “false alarm” and the advanced preparations for war against North Korea
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/01/16/pers-j16.html
A direct threat of aggression from israeli quisling tillerson:
‘Irreversible Denuclearization’: Tillerson Urges DPRK to Choose Pathway of Talks
https://sputniknews.com/asia/201801171060809698-tillerson-korean-peninsula-sanctions-talks/
“Pyongyang could “trigger an option” of a military solution of the crisis in the region, if North Korea decides not to settle the conflict via talks, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Tuesday at a joint press conference with his Canadian counterpart Chrystia Freeland in Vancouver.
“We all need to be very sober and clear-eyed about the current situation, as North Korea has continued to make advance in both its nuclear weapons… [and] the ballistic missile systems. We have to recognize that that threat is growing and if North Korea does not choose the pathway of engagement, discussion, negotiation, then they themselves will trigger an [military] option,” Tillerson said, answering a question about possible war between Washington and Pyongyang.”
IE: blaming the victim for one’s own aggressive war crimes. Very israeli, american and nazi.
great article Peter – I hope your dreams come true
I believe that the whole world is dreaming the same dream…
It’s Official: Sony Hack was a “False Flag”
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2014/december/28/the-interview-flops-fbi-north-korean-hack-story-also-debunked/
DPRK – The education begins in the Kindergarten
The Children Playing Changgu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACW4Xgvb3wA
The Little Girl Playing Kayagum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50Zcv80WWW8
The Kids Playing Guitar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQnfj3FPurI
Sport as politics, war by another means. It will be interesting to see what the Anglo-zionist empire is cooking up for the Football (Soccer) World cup to be held shortly in Russia. The draws have been made, eveything is been arranged so far; this is a very big money spinner for everyone involved. The weakness of the US is that they are only minnows in this particular sport and any boycott on their part wouldn’t worry the organizers too much. However, there is always the alternative of a nice little US-sponsored war in Ukraine upsetting the apple cart.
I am sure the Russians know this as it seems to be the obvious spoiling ploy for the Anglo-zionists.
We shall wait and we shall see.
It is very strange that North Korea, one fifth of whose people were killed by the USA and all of whose built infrastructure was destroyed, should now be described as an aggressor.
While the USA, whose armed forces and “plausibly deniable” terrorist proxies have killed at the very minimum 10 million civilians since 1950, and which has destroyed at least four complete nations as well as attacking and devastating a dozen more, claims to be the representative of peace and justice.
We live in a very weird world. Or, perhaps, it would be more accurate to say that homo sapiens is a very weird species. So many of us are calm, peaceful and happy to live with our neighbours in friendship – and then there is the other 5-10 percent.
I regret that it is seen as odd.
In point of objective fact it was the SK fascists, Quislings set up to rule as agents of Imperial Japan, that were re-affirmed in their social and political positions as agents of the Imperial US rule, that have been, as Japan was and the US is, aggressors. And under the influence of cia (Empire) invaded North Korea in 1950.
After some 100 years of occupation the vast majority of all Koreans were ready to assert themselves and emerge from the underground resistance that had grown under the fascist heels – Korea was communist in desire – all Korea except the Quislings that had served Japan, that is.
After LeMay murdered millions in both N and S K most still reject the fascists…
In the past the fascists have always characterized their opponents as “aggressors”.
I am sorry to see these fascist lies accepted here. Tom finds it “strange”. Perhaps he’s noticed one of those “fissures” in the Tapestry of Lies, but he’s obviously a believer in the lie.
It has always been plain and obvious which forces are aggressors, and who’s been lying.
North Korea has not started a war recently, so I suppose that makes them peaceful. Kim Jon Un is maybe not quite right in the head, but he did figure out that having nukes would keep the US out and make them impotent. I can only hail that the 2 Koreas can sit down and talk. China and Russia backs that. And a good lot of the rest of the world.
So far so good.
Excellent article. A ray of real hope is so much needed in the murk of this US Empire created darkness. None of this tectonic shift is impossible, but it will take the best efforts of the best among us to help it happen.
Ask Qaddafi’s ghost who is not right in the head. Kim is a sane and able mature leader. As ruthless as he must be.
And one need to remember he is not a peasant too. He was educated in the west in Switzerland to be precisely.
His actions show he is intelligent too.
Unfortunately peace isn’t going to happen.
The US wants those six to ten trillion dollars of undeveloped mineral resources that NK has – not to mention putting military bases on China’s borders.
So Trump will start a war sometime this spring after the Winter Olympics (only waiting that long because doing a war in the middle of the Winter Olympics would be too “tacky”…)
The US has almost no troops to send to support the 28-32,000 already in South Korea – only one division and two light brigades are available to send, so the bulk of the dying will be done by Korean civilians and troops.
The US knows NK won’t attack the US with nuclear weapons, first because it can’t, and second because it would be nuclear suicide, so that hyped-up threat won’t happen.
The serious question is what will Trump do when China enters the war and the US then is actually threatened by 200 Chinese nukes.
Some might add “what will happen when a fleet aircraft carriers is sunk?”
Richard has pointed out yet another reason, resources. But it is control of resource, of course. This would in a practical sense swipe them from China (and Ru) because those are the natural buyers…
But it is the OBOR and the axis asiatic of heartland that must be dominated, else all fails…this is the ultimate diver. There are several. Some are imperatives. Got that? Imperatives.
No plan survives first contact, it is ill-omen’d. When Persia was defeated at Salamis by the Sea People, Persia, being a land power, retreated and survived 400 years. In the present example the defeat by land powers of the imperial expeditionary army and fleets might be fatal.
Got that?
The attack on NK is a “hail Mary”, a desperate gamble. And urgent. Because it must succeed (but cannot) it seem logical that the attack will be massive and sudden..I expect atomic…but is that, a surprize attack, a realistic strategy these days? You know, radar an’ all that stuff.
Both Ru and Ch have nifty OTH radars and they’re running all the time. Just for fun, right?
Obviously surprise not realistic. This is why it will fail, though the initial smashing may be hailed as victory (ain’t it always so?)
Like Richard implies, China controls the outcome. I say is Zugswang, and Empire is best served by retreat. Pity this is not possible. Delusional thinking, psychotropic dope, who can say?
No, they won’t wait. During the past two Olympics they started actions against Russian interests, because responding during a celebration of international peace would be awkward and of course spun by the one-sided MSM. What’s worked in the past they’ll try again. Not sure against whom this time, with Russia sidelined.
The israelis fat boi makes it clear he wants to sabotage any rapprochement between the Koreas. Everyone but pindos know what netanyahoo’s fat boi toy wants is DPRK under zionazi occupation.
‘Very possible’ that N. Korea crisis can’t be resolved peacefully – Trump
https://www.rt.com/usa/416218-trump-north-korea-crisis/
“It’s “very possible” the standoff with North Korea might not be resolved peacefully, Donald Trump has said in an exclusive interview with Reuters, and he’s not sure if the inter-Korean dialogue will lead to “anything meaningful.”
“I’d sit down, but I‘m not sure that sitting down will solve the problem,” Trump said.
During the interview, the US president also had harsh words for Russia with regards to the situation on the Korean peninsula. Trump accused Moscow of being soft on Pyongyang and not doing enough to implement the UN agreed sanctions. [Note how these neocons always smear Russia whatever the subject.]
Speaking from the Oval Office, Trump told Reuters that he is still not ruling out military action. “We’re playing a very, very hard game of poker and you don’t want to reveal your hand,” he said.
Russia’s foreign ministry has meanwhile criticized the joint US-Canadian organized summit trying to resolve the the N.Korean quandry. Moscow said the nations present in Vancouver failed to provide any alternatives to the joint Russian-Chinese “double-freeze” strategy, in which Pyongyang and the US respectively cease their missile program and military maneuvers. Neither Russia nor China were invited to the summit, where Washington again rejected the so-called double-freeze proposal.
US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard said Tuesday that it’s Washington’s aggressive foreign policy – agitating for regime change around the world – that’s lead to the tense situation with North Korea.
“Regime change war policy is the reason why North Korea sees nuclear weapons as their only deterrent from a US-led attack,” she tweeted. “Kim Jong-un sees what the US has done to Gaddafi in Libya, Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and the effort underway to decertify the nuclear deal with Iran,” the Democratic representative from Hawaii said.”
Two false missile alerts in one week. Coincidence, or the usual zionazi/nazi lack of creativity in their psywar?
False alarm of incoming missile in Japan
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/01/17/japa-j17.html
“Just days after a false alert in Hawaii about an incoming missile, the Japanese public broadcaster NHK panicked the public yesterday with an incorrect warning about a missile being launched from North Korea. A message correcting the error was sent out five minutes later.
Authorities in both countries blamed individuals for making a mistake. However, the two false alarms about a missile attack are not purely coincidental. They are a product of the extreme tensions on the Korean Peninsula, for which the United States and its ally Japan are chiefly responsible.
The very fact that two false alerts can take place in less than a week, after decades in which no such panics took place, highlights the advanced preparations for war with North Korea, and also with major nuclear-armed powers such as China and Russia. Surveillance and warning systems are being built, or revived from the Cold War and extended, as part of a rapid US-led military build-up in Asia.
It cannot be completely ruled out that either or both of the false alarms were orchestrated deliberately to create a climate of fear and apprehension about the “North Korean threat.” Throughout the past year, a relentless propaganda campaign has been conducted in both countries to paint the small, impoverished country with its limited nuclear arsenal as the greatest international menace.”
The esteemed savant Tillerson demands “irredeemably denuclearized NK” This quote is easy to find.
Consider what we know about the physics. What does this mean?
It means that the US would occupy NK, as otherwise they would simply repeat building gadgets.
Other than complete surrender and occupation it is not possible to make sure there are no gadgets in NK.
His silly talk, which seems to belie his reputation as some sort of genius, telegraphs the Imperial Intent. In point of objective facts who could distinguish between the celestially gifted Tillerson and an ordinary thug, or indeed a SS functionary on the “eastern front”..ah! those were the days! The Reds came…
In the realm of magic…imagine that NK and SK agree to make peace, reunite, sign treaty, and share the bombs…then tell yankee go home…in a one hour secret meeting.
stranger than fiction, eh Comrades?
I expect carriers have bad day. not magic.
Our dreams will come true. Believe.
“We were hoping, we are hoping, we hoped”. F… hope as Georg Carlin would say.
The problem is not the aggressor but the apathy and passivity of the sheeple, and we the sheeple are all for sale for money, and who has the money, the aggressor.
Peter Koenig started his article with an a-priori which, to my knowledge has not only NOT been proven yet but seems to have been debunked by a few writers, namely that North Korea “fired a missile” toward Hawaii.
I offer here another point of view which seems as reasonable as anything else, especially in the historical context of the past 70 years (and probably even longer).
http://phibetaiota.net/2018/01/defdog-there-was-a-missile-government-is-lying/
Seeing that MSM appears to have known about the “potential” (forthcoming?) Hawaii missile scare, would it be really that farfetched to consider Israel and/or the US as the origin of the missile in question…? Both countries have a long recorded history of creating false flags and/or destroying their own installations to meet their goals.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZGZv-xxGO4 “Proof MSM Knew IN ADVANCE About Hawaii Terror Drill”.
Ryongchon in North Korea was seemingly nuked in 2004, 20km from the border with China. Appart from the load, 12 Syrian scientists on board a train may have been the target and a Mossad agent is suspected for having ignited it by remote control. Seismic reading of 3.6 and estimated at 0.8 kt tnt.
This unofficial background has an obvious relevance when considering later developments.
These kinds of attacks involving mininukes are never acknowledged officially for being nuclear but have taken place many times in several countries, in Russia, in the ME. Even in Spain.