American Aggression in Korea

According to North Korea, the American government is escalating a nuclear war on the Korean Peninsula.

North Korea said Saturday that the risk of a nuclear war was mounting on the Korean peninsula as the United States attempts to "stifle" it by force.

It urged Washington to drop its "hostile" policy toward the communist state and demanded solidarity among all Koreans in order to drive out US troops stationed in South Korea, calling them the "very source of a nuclear war."

The statement was made in a New Year editorial run in North Korean newspapers.

"The danger of a nuclear war is growing on the Korean peninsula as the days go by owing to the US moves to stifle the DPRK (North Korea)," the editorial said, according to Pyongyang's official Korean Central News Agency.

"All Koreans should stage a powerful struggle for peace against war in order to drive the US troops out of South Korea, remove the very source of a nuclear war and defend the peace and security on the Korean peninsula," it said.

So the North Koreans violate the treaty that got former President Jimmy Carter his Nobel Peace Prize (this being the same prize that will keep his ego hopelessly inflated for the rest of his natural life) by reprocessing their existing fissile material and turning it into nuclear weapons. The United States discontinues its part of the bargain, this being all sorts of free aid and goodies and such. Now the North Koreans are saying that that the blame rests on the United States for the escalation of hostilities?

And of course, what post would be complete without... ? Yep, you guessed it. The money shot.

The number of [American] troops currently stands at 32,500 after the United States redeployed 5,000 soldiers out of South Korea, including 3,600 who were sent to Iraq in August last year.

Next year 3,000 more will go, followed by 2,000 in 2006 and 2,500 in 2007 and 2008 as part of a global redeployment plan.

That's right, folks. The United States is escalating hostilities and trying to provoke a nuclear war with North Korea by withdrawing thousands upon thousands of troops from South Korea.

A couple of weeks ago I posted about Cuba's Bastion 2004 exercise. The Super Castro Brothers blamed U.S. aggression, too. If you blame American aggression on all of your problems, you don't have to face the fact that spending all of your money on developing nuclear weapons is forcing them to eat tree bark and grass. Even more impressive is that the North Koreans actually implored all Koreans to expel the Americans; ironic, seeing as how the American military presence and alliance with South Korea is what keeps the North from nuking the heavily-mined border, killing the South Korean garrison, and marching through.

"Yeah, uh, we totally implore you to like, y'know, kick out the Americans, whose growing aggression will spark a nuclear war, so that we can maintain the unified security of the Korean Peninsula. And by that, I mean that we'll invade, since the Americans won't be there to stop us. Wait, did I say that out loud?"