Peace – in
the Koreas, is what the world expects; and Peace in the world is what
humanity expects, the vast majority – 99.9% of the world population
wants peace, but it’s the 0.1% that commands war and destruction, since
war and destruction is what runs the western economy. Literally. If
peace would break out – what we in the west still call economy, though
it’s a fraud, every day more visible – would collapse. In the US the war
industry with all the associated production and service industries,
including the Silicon Valley and banking – contributes more than 50% to
GDP. Nobody notices and nobody says so. Naturally. Everything that might
be revealing and thought-provoking, is lied about or hidden from the
public.
This enormous Korean Peace Initiative is a flare of hope. The two Presidents, Moon Jae-in from the South and Kim Jong-un from the North have met last Friday, 27 April 2018, at the Peace House at Panmunjeom, near the 38th Parallel
North, or the so-called Military Demarcation Line. It is the first time
in more than 60 years that leaders of both Koreas have crossed the line
– Mr. Moon to the North, and Mr. Kim to the South. They have declared
their willingness to establish Peace, to sign a real Peace Agreement
before the end of this year. At present, technically the two nations are
still at war – a war sustained by the United States. The DPRK survives
from day to day on a shaky armistice agreement from 1953. The American
ferocious military forces and those of their NATO allies have totally
destroyed, bombed to rubble and ashes North Korea at will, killing one
third of her population, between 1950 and 1953. US-NATO did this despite
North Korea’s offer to surrender long before the country was but a heap
of ruins. Killing for spite, indulging in and enjoying the causing of
horrendous suffering and death, is the sadistic and satanic way of the
west.
This must be
said and never forgotten. Although we look forward now – we, the world
at large wants Peace, a live peace experience of Korea which could be
replicated. The two leaders promise a number of joint actions and
undertakings, including ridding the Peninsula of nuclear weapons – a
very ambitious plan. Not because the two are not genuine in their
endeavor but will Washington with more than 30,000 troops stationed in
the South and a fleet of navy vessels and aircraft carriers as well as
fighter jets and bombers – and a nuclear arsenal – withdraw their
murderous toys? South Korea is a sovereign nation, she could request the
departure of foreign occupiers, what the US is – but will the occupiers
leave? – Or will the Pentagon, CIA or the White House invent a false
flag event to nullify this peace effort? – Nothing is beyond
Washington’s evil intention to hegemonize the world.
And for DPRK’s President Kim Jong-un to recall – John Bolton,
Trump’s National Security Advisor, said just a couple of days ago,
referring to North Koreas denuclearization – “Libya should serve as a
model”. You may remember in 2003 / 2004 Gaddafi was accused of hiding
weapons of mass destruction (WMD), i.e. a nuclear arms development
program. The west blackmailed him to get rid of it, against some
‘economic aid and favors’, of course. Gaddafi accepted. The western
sicko leaders all became friends with him, the French then President Nicolas Sarkozy
on top, who is now accused in French Courts of receiving up to € 50
million ‘illegal money’ (what is legal money by western standards?) from
Muammar Gaddafi for Sarkozy’s 2007 campaign. Well, we
also remember how in 2011 he was miserably tortured and slaughtered
anyway, despite his concessions to the west on his alleged WMDs, by NATO
forces led by France and viciously supported by Hillary Clinton,
then Obama’s Secretary of State. Had Gaddafi kept his weapons, he may
be still be alive and Libya and Libya’s people may still be prospering
as they did before the US-NATO onslaught in 2011.
For now, the
US of A seems to go passively along with the Peace Initiative. It’s
more, the Donald is actually claiming credit for it. It is unbelievable
but true. There is even a group of Trump supporters who will propose
Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. Imagine! – But why not, after all,
Obama got the prize before he really started his Presidency – and then
he bombed more countries and killed more people than any other US
President in recent history. Yes, all is possible. We are living in a
world where war is peace, where you are made believe that bombing a
country to rubble will bring peace. Seriously. And the western people,
brainwashed to the core, believe it.
However, despite Trump the “peacemaker”, be on your guard. Iran’s Foreign Minister, Bahram Qassemi,
so pointedly said – never trust any agreement or promise made by
Washington. He referred, of course, to the 5+1 (Permanent Security
Council Members, plus Germany, and, of course, Iran) Nuclear Deal that
Trump wants to abolish, or at best renegotiate – for which he engaged
his new little boyfriend, Macron, to call Mr. Rouhani to please agree to
re-discuss the Nuclear Deal and the issue of Iran’s long-range
missiles. Of course, Mr. Rouhani turned him off.
And, as I’m
writing these lines, Netanyahu comes to the fore with the most flagrant
of lies – but he knows with enough propaganda – the west will buy them,
accusing with a bland PowerPoint presentation Iran of not adhering to
the nuclear agreement and of running a secret nuclear program; he has
allegedly ‘tons’ of documents to prove it. And he comes out with this
absolute blatant falsehood 12 days before the deadline Trump set to
decide whether or not to scrap the Iran Nuclear Deal. As the west,
especially Europe and of course Master Trump, are all submissively on
their knees in front of Israel’s guru, his message, repeated at nauseam
since the 2015 deal was signed, may catch on — and this, despite
Europe’s (commercially inspired) adamant wish to adhere to the 5+1
Accord.
Iran is on her guard, and North Korea should be too.
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Peace in the
Koreas – and in the future a unified Korea, unified families after more
than 65 years; certainly, a dream for almost all Koreans. Yet, have the
US motives to keep the DPRK under constant threat of war, under
permanent fear, to keep the small country as an eastern entry point to
Asia – to China and Russia – the same motive that started the war in
1950 – has that motive gone?
What does that
mean for Syria, Iraq, Iran and Venezuela? – Trump at one point within
the last weeks has said that the US is going to withdraw her troops from
Syria. Really? – Or is this a well-orchestrated, but little veiled game
– to give people hope for peace and then let them drop back into the
ruins? – Remember this little ‘schmoozer’ guy, Macron, went to
Washington with one of his priority requests – Donald, please do not
leave Syria, we need you there.
Can you
imagine – this little Rothschild implanted ‘call-me-president’ rascal
has the nerve to say – we need you there? – Who in heaven does he think
he is? – Let him militarize ‘his own’ (sic) country. France is already
militarized and police patrolled like no other European nation – with
the State of Emergency – effectively Martial Law – engraved in the
French Constitution. Let the French people deal with Washington’s new
baby poodle.
France and the
UK, of course along with Washington, are also following Israel’s cue –
destroy and partition Syria and Iran – to create a Greater Israel, from
the Euphrates to the Red Sea. And of course, the EU, miserable vassals
of Washington, will keep their stranglehold with sanctions on Venezuela –
Venezuela that has arguably together with Cuba, the best democratic
system in the world, has never done any harm to anyone, let alone to
those sanctioning countries. Even Switzerland had the audacity to join
the EU’s sanction regime against Venezuela, a country that has been
among the most pleasant partners of Switzerland in the past. One can
only wonder, how low do these countries pull down their pants to please
their ruthless Atlantists neofascist masters.
Will this
noble Korean peace spirit stretch through the world and bring about a
higher consciousness, one that strives for peace instead of war?
France is
engaged in strikes, after strikes, after strikes against the
Macron-imposed new labor reform laws that would literally strip French
workers of most of the social and labor rights and benefits they have
achieved since WWII – for what? – To make the rich richer, and the poor
poorer. That’s what austerity is all about, has always been – the west
calls it structural adjustment – what a euphemism! – And the people
haven’t caught-on yet. Or is it the corrupt politicians that go along
with it against the will of the people?
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Peace in Korea
– uniting again a historically peaceful and absolutely non-violent
people – may be way more than a political act. It is a social compact of
people; a vision to enshrine the non-violent nature of their culture
upon Mother Earth, on a tiny fleck of earth in eastern Asia, on the
Continent where the future lays – the East that brings human values back
to the world, the OBI – One Belt Initiative of China, the broad
economic and cultural cooperation enhanced by the SCO – Shanghai
Cooperation Organization, led by China and Russia, and is already
encompassing about half the world’s population, producing about a third
of the globe’s economic output. – Could Korea be just that spark that
ignites the engine to turning the massive ocean liner around, slowly but
steadily – and, foremost – peacefully?
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Peter Koenig
is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He worked for over 30 years
with the World Bank around the globe as an economist in the fields of
water and environment. He is the author of Implosion, an economic
thriller, based on his professional Bank experience. He is a frequent
contributor to Global Research.
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