LLAW’s All Things Nuclear #700, Tuesday, (07/23/2024)
“End Nuclear Insanity Before Nuclear Insanity Ends Humanity”
Kim's North Korea Warns of 'Nuclear World War'
LLAW’s NUCLEAR ISSUES & COMMENTS, Tuesday, (07/23/2024)
The tensions between the two countries, South & North Korea, have always been tense and dangerous. I was there for a year (1962, the year of the October Cuban Missile Crisis) and the intensity, even after a signed Armistice to end the long wars between the countries and resolving the last Korean War (from the summer of 1950 to the summer of 1953, but a following ‘Peace Treaty’ was never signed by either country.
The United States has been the staunch ally of South Korea during all of those years and fought the ‘50s war with American troops, and still protects the South from the North. And now the threat of nuclear weapons has arisen, and the USA has no choice but to defend South Korea should another war be declared, nuclear or not.
My job in Korea back then was to rotate American soldiers from South Korea back to duty at various military bases in the United States or its territories, although the tension was still thick between the two countries despite the Armistice a decade later, and the Cuban Missile crisis increased the tension considerably for a short time, at least for the Generals and other ranking officers, raising the alert status of the South Korean defense by the Eighth U.S. Army and its cavalry divisions occupying Korea. So it was that I was apprised during my interviews with the rotating infantry soldiers, listening to the stories by the hundreds of a never-ending ‘war’ armed only with M1 rifles while facing dangerous skirmishes during the day and a ‘hidden’ or ‘sniper’ style of conflict that was perpetually ongoing in order to defensively protect our fellow comrades. We all individually had scheduled times from sundown to sunup, assigned to guard duty, on foot, around the perimeters of several cavalry divisions of the Army. I, of course don’t know for sure, but I suspect that such guard duty has never changed 60+ years later, nor has the tension lessened, but has, most likely, increased.
And yet, after all of that elapsed time, humanity has learned nothing, and has actually regressed in our semi-humanitarian way (if such a term applies in any kind of war) that wars have been and will be fought in the future, leading to, perhaps soon, a nuclear war that, should it happen, will be the end of the global human culture, including most all of our lives as well as our totally innocent animal kingdoms. ~llaw
Kim's North Korea Warns of 'Nuclear World War'
Published Jul 23, 2024 at 5:56 AM EDTUpdated Jul 23, 2024 at 11:18 AM EDT
China News Reporter
The U.S. and its allies are verging on nuclear war on a global scale, according to North Korean state media.
The official newspaper of the communist country's Workers' Party of Korea, the Rodong Sinmun, on Monday released a nationalistic article marking the upcoming anniversary of the July 27, 1953, armistice that ended hostilities in the Korean War.
The article credited North Korean founder Kim Il Sung, grandfather of current leader Kim Jong Un, with a victory over "the self-proclaimed 'strongest' U.S. imperialists and their followers" that "prevented a new world war that could have brought global disaster and catastrophe, thereby willingly safeguarding world peace."
However, "even before the ink of the armistice agreement dried," the U.S. and South Korea began holding regular war games with an eye toward the north, which have continued to this day, the paper wrote.
"The exercises have become increasingly blatant and cruel year by year, now boldly crossing the red line of a new nuclear world war," it said.
The "United Nations Command," which brought disaster to this land 70 years ago, has again revealed its dirty visage, with troops from follower countries and even NATO forces joining anti-North Korean war exercises.
The Rodong Sinmun article comes as Kim doubles down on its message that nuclear weapons are essential to his nation's survival, with the regime last year enshrining its nuclear weapons program in its constitution.
In June, Seoul-based news agency Daily NK cited North Korean sources as saying Pyongyang has been holding mandatory lectures impressing upon citizens the program's central role in deterring a U.S.-South Korean "war of aggression."
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Though the Korean Armistice Agreement suspended open conflict on the peninsula, Pyongyang and Seoul never signed a peace treaty and technically remain at war.
Inter-Korean ties are at their lowest level in decades.
Earlier this year, the North amended its constitution to define the South as its "primary foe and invariable principal enemy," with the country carrying out a months-long series of ballistic missile tests, in violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions.
Both North and South Korea have suspended a 2018 military agreement meant to reduce tensions along their border, and the countries are increasingly engaging in a tit-for-tat using tactics reminiscent of the Cold War, from live-fire exercises near the border to balloon exchanges and loudspeakers broadcasts.
Two-thirds of South Koreans favor pursuing nuclear weapons, according to recent polling, though the government recently clarified it is not currently doing so.
Pyongyang's more assertive posture has also driven Seoul to develop security cooperation with its ally Washington and, increasingly, Tokyo, after decades of often prickly ties stemming from the legacy of the Japanese Empire's occupation in the early 20th century and a territorial dispute over a small group of islets.
The U.S. Department of Defense and the North Korean embassy in China did not immediately respond to written requests for comment.
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