By Dan Kovalik

January 13, 2015

What troubles me most about a movie such as The Interview is that, rather than spur debate about the U.S.'s role in the world, it actually shuts down and forecloses such discussion.

It does so by setting up a paper tiger in Kim Jung Un, the leader of North Korea, and allowing Americans to feel morally superior in terms of human rights and freedom. Such self-congratulations were on full display Sunday night at The Golden Globes where North Korea — including through a racist sketch involving Margaret Cho dressed as a North Korean soldier and engagingRead More... (http://mltoday.com/the-problem-with-the-interview)
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Very good article.


This paper, published in the Journal of Genocide Research, and entitled, "Forgotten War, forgotten massacres - the Korea War (1950-1953) as licensed mass killings," challenges long-held beliefs in the U.S. that the Korean War was somehow a good and righteous war that the U.S. fought. As Dong Choon Kim shows, it was anything but. Professor Kim illuminates forgotten truths about the Korean War.

Thus, he explains that

(1) the war was greatly inspired by the U.S.'s efforts in Korea from 1945 to 1950 to restore fascist and dictatorial military leaders who had been trained by the Japanese, just as the U.S. had supported fascist restoration in Greece after World War II;

(2) the U.S. provided critical military support to these rightist leaders in South Korea to carry out a "white terror" which included the murder of at least 100,000 Koreans between 1945 and the outbreak of the war in 1950, and the jailing of about 20,000 more who were later summarily killed; and

(3) the U.S., fueled by anti-Asian racism, engaged in the indiscriminate slaughter of thousands of Korean civilians, numerous rapes of Korean women and the wholesale destruction of major Korean cities through massive aerial bombardment which included the large-scale use of napalm and incendiary bombs.

As Professor Kim explains: According to the witnesses, US air and ground forces shot at children, women and aged people who were easily distinguishable as unarmed civilians. North Korean authorities have long accused American troops of 'criminal acts' before and after the outbreak of the Korean War. They maintained that the US army killed more than a million innocent civilians by bombing, shooting, and the use of napalm and chemical weapons. . . . [And] the facts on the ground force us not to discount their veracity.


A recent book by Korean scholar, Bruce Cummings, entitled, The Korean War: A History fully supports the conclusions of Professor Kim, and opines that the U.S. was engaged in a racist, genocidal campaign in Korea. As Cummings poignantly notes, What hardly any Americans know or remember . . . is that we carpet-bombed the North for three years with next to no concern for civilian casualties.

Even fewer will feel any connection to this. Yet when foreigners visit North Korea, this is the first thing they hear about the war. The air assaults ranged from the widespread and continual use of firebombing to threats to use nuclear and chemical weapons, finally to the destruction of huge North Korean dams in the last stages of the war. It was an application of the air campaigns against Japan and Germany, except that North Korea was a small Third World country that lost control of the air to the United States within days of the war's start.

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Very good article.





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I knew a guy who was involved in recruiting former Japanese Imperial Marines in that time. Had retired from Army G2 as captain & was called back for Cold War. He also was involved in Guatamala but told us he was collecting animals...