Potential For The Most Foreboding World Crisis, Possibly Building
Posted: Friday, January 06, 2012
by Joel Hendon
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Without intending to become a doomsayer, there are now certain conditions in place which can easily develop into a catastrophic destruction to civilization. With the study of various countries present attitudes, hungry peoples, hatred towards other nations and several other underlying factors, the ingredients are there. We must not take it for granted that all nations will remain peaceful.
Many people are totally unaware of the conflict which was fought between Japan and China, which began in July of 1937 and was ended in September of 1945 at the close of World War 2. From 1937 to 1941, this war between Japan and China was simply theirs and the Chinese were assisted financially by the U.S., Russia and Germany. But when Adolph Hitler began his conquest to subdue the entire world, much of the financial aid was stopped. Then when The Japanese attacked us at Pearl Harbor, they became immersed in the world war rather than with China.
At the end of World War 2, Korea, which had been under colonial rule of Japan since 1910 was no longer under them. The nations who had fought, and won the world conflict, divided various lands to be under their control until a viable government could be formed. Korea was divided at the 38th parallel with the U.S. assuming guardianship of the southern portion and Russia the upper half. The newly established UN, gave regulations as to how each one was to be allowed free elections to establish their own form of government. Russia, however, refused to allow the Korea north of the 38th parallel to hold open elections and instead, formed a communist government.
This move brought strong dissension among the North and the South portions, and each one claimed the right to rule the entire country. When the North invaded the South with more arms than the South had, the U.S. came in to assist them, thus the Korean war era. I served along with thousands more, many of whom would not return and many others maimed or blinded. At one point in this war, our forces pushed through North Korea near to the border with China. When near the border, thousands of Chinese foot soldiers were released to come into the fray and pushed our troops back across the 38th parallel and they were forced to be picked up in our ships to avoid slaughter from the overwhelming numbers.
All of this simply lets us see why these nations are still hostile towards each other. An agreement was finally worked out to allow the South to remain sovereign over their part and the North to their own. But it has remained a fragile truce with sporadic flare ups along the demilitarized zone of the 38th parallel.
We had the nuclear capabilities at the time to stop the war and unite the country. During the war, the renowned General Douglas MacArthur asked permission to bomb the Chinese on their side of the border and stop insurgence. President Truman rejected his request and after insistence from the General, relieved him of his command.
The North Korea of recent years, as is well known now, is avowed communist and hostile towards the U.S., South Korea and Japan. They have, as mentioned above, instigated flare ups against the South Koreans at the 38th parallel on a fairly regular basis but even worse, they have made threats toward Japan. Their former leader Kim Jong Il, served from his father’s death in 1994 until his own death recently. Il was a mental case and intoxicated on power. His people virtually always near starvation, the government spent virtually all on military build up and the capability to build nuclear weapons. He attempted to call the bluff of the U.S., and all the western powers as well as South Korea and Japan. His primary goal was seemingly more to obtain financial aid than to actually want to destroy anyone, but his extortion efforts did not reward him enough.
Kim Jong Un, the youngest son of Kim Jon Il, since his father’s burial, has been declared the party, military and country’s supreme leader. Jong Un is 28 or 29 years old and according to reports, has had no military experience and virtually no experience or training to run the nation. The disputes between Japan and the two Koreas plus the disputes between the two halves of Korea itself leaves all cards on the table.
Consider this, during World War two, Germany was similarly divided, but they have been united. During the Vietnam war, the nation was also similarly divided, then united. But the situation in Korea has actually become worse and more tense. Kim Jong Il even issued subtle threats from time to time, at Japan moreso than at South Korea.
All of these factors bring on the possibility of testing the mettle of Kim Jong Un. One is made to wonder why the youngest of the three sons of Kim Jong II was chosen over the older two. Perhaps it was that this youngster has a more level head(?) Or maybe because he is even more hot headed than his father.
Here is a short blurb from an article to close mine:
Unification aside, nationalism plays a leading role in South Korean politics. The legacy of World War II and the Cold War is embedded in a tense triangular relationship between China, Japan and the Koreas, where historical enmities play out in clashes over territorial claims over the surrounding waters.
On Dec. 14, hundreds rallied in front of the Japanese Embassy in Seoul to demand reparations for the estimated 200,000 Korean women forced into sex slavery during World War II. Two days earlier, a Chinese fisherman stabbed to death a Korean naval officer who had boarded his Chinese vessel, which was fishing in Korean territorial waters. And leftist protesters continue to mass in the streets of Seoul in opposition to the new free-trade agreement with the United States that was ratified by the South Korean parliament last month. (A Cold War Could Turn Hot in Korean Peninsula: Peter Rutland-Moscow Times)
To read the above entire interesting article click here: http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/a-cold-war-could-turn-hot-in-korean-peninsula/450636.html
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