“Decapitation Units” expose the US-ROK Axis of State Terrorism
By Carla SteaGlobal Research, September 16, 2017
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There
is now a discernible pattern to US manipulation of the UN Security
Council when it wants UN endorsement for US-NATO acts of aggression. It
is a formula which led to the destruction of Iraq and Libya, and in
1950-1953 led to the destruction of North Korea and most of South Korea.
This deadly trajectory is once again becoming visible, and the code is
revealed in the three words: “all necessary measures,” which are
deciphered to mean US-NATO aggressive war.
This
formula begins with sanctions under Chapter VII of the UN Charter:
approximately eleven sanctions have been inflicted upon North Korea, and
four presidential statements. The sanctions are, in themselves
aggressive action, intended to weaken and demoralize the intended
nation-targeted victim, and ultimately destroy the will, the spirit and
unity of the nation. The now twelve sanctions on the DPRK are
reminiscent of the words Richard Nixon used for the CIA engineered destruction of the democratically elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile:
“Make the economy scream!!”
The
goal of these resolutions is the total destruction of the targeted
victim-nation, in the present case, the independent socialist government
of North Korea. Because the bar is continually raised, and it is
impossible to comply with these imperialistic sanctions without
betraying and destroying the core values of the nation being targeted,
eventually the US compels the Security Council to announce that more
“robust” (violent) measures are required, the end resulting in military
attack upon the targeted nation.
Each
sanction is a humiliation, an act of psychological violence and an
assault on the dignity of the people of the targeted country. The
sanctions are intended to cause such misery among the people of the
nation targeted that havoc will result, culminating in regime change. If
the victim has the strength to resist, more overt aggression will be
used.
On
September 8, 2017 the U.S. draft resolution revealed their ultimate
intent: demanding the power to board North Korean ships, and use “all
necessary measures” (military force) to coerce compliance to inspect
their cargo. Although this demand was deleted from the sanctions
resolution 2375 adopted on September 11, such coercion, if it had
remained in the resolution finally agreed upon, would have the violation
of the sovereignty of the DPRK, and would have constituted a form of
rape of North Korea. Resistance by Russia and China resulted in the
abandonment of that particular form of violation of the DPRK, but the
cumulative force of the resolutions, now numbering 12, are strangling
the economy and people of North Korea, and the US-NATO trajectory seems
intent upon some form of military aggression, with or without UN
Security Council approval.
In the September 18 issue of “The New Yorker,” author Evan Osnos quotes his North Korean guide, Pak, saying:
“If the US puts sanctions and sanctions and sanctions and sanctions, they drive us to the edge of the cliff, we will attack. That’s how the world wars have started. Don’t push us too hard because you’re going to start a war. And we should say, we’re not going to die alone.”
Image on the right is NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg
On September 9, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said:
“North Korea is a global threat and requires a global response; and that, of course, also includes NATO.”
UK’s Defense Minister Michael Fallon supported NATO’s position.
US Ambassador Nikki Haley’s
crude insinuation that “North Korea is begging for war” so grossly
distorts the truth that the DPRK referred to her as a “political
prostitute,” and the US Ambassador’s reference to the Chinese-Russian
proposal of “suspension for suspension” as “insulting,” is a shocking
repudiation of the only viable step toward beginning negotiated
reduction of tension, leading to a peaceful resolution of this crisis.
The US Ambassador’s absurd comment reveals her deliberate falsification
of the realities involved and her reversal of cause and effect is a form
of paranoia. North Korea needs nuclear defenses to protect itself from
violent aggression by the South-Korean-US axis.
Article
2 of the China/DPRK Mutual Assistance Treaty obligates China to defend
North Korea if the US attacks. If the DPRK attacks first, China will not
assist. While the DPRK will not initiate attack, ever, it is being
subjected to intolerable provocations, set-ups and false-flag operations
which may make it impossible to avoid counter-actions in defense.
The
US Ambassador, many of the Security Council members, willingly or
unwillingly and many others elsewhere are, it seems, deliberately
refusing to respect, nor take responsibility for the horrifying massacre
of 3-4 million North Koreans between 1950-1953, and ignore fact that
the ongoing menace of South Korean and US military threats are
inflicting an unendurable state of terror upon North Koreans, to which
they must respond in the only way that will either ensure their survival
or raise the cost of an attack against them to a point that the
US-NATO-Japan- ROK axis are reluctant or unwilling to pay.
It
is therefore alarming evidence of a stealthy plan to attack and
overwhelm the DPRK in every conceivable way, that yesterday’s New York
Times announced South Korea’s plan to “Decapitate” the North Korean
leadership. …”The measures have raised questions about whether South
Korea and the United States, its most important ally, are laying the
groundwork to kill or incapacitate Mr. Kim and his top aides before they
can even order an attack.” This again recalls the Nixon-Kissinger-CIA
Chilean coup scenario, when “make the economy scream” was not sufficient
to incite a popular uprising to overthrow the government of Socialist
President Allende, and the honorable Chilean top military leadership
refused to enact a coup d’etat, which would have violated the
constitution. Thereupon, the Nixon-Kissinger-CIA axis arranged the
assassination of Chile’s loyal top military leaders, beginning with General Rene Schneider, who was kidnapped and murdered for refusing to stage a coup, and his loyal second in command, General Carlos Prats was cruelly degraded and forced out of Chile. Eventually the CIA found a compliant officer, and a pawn, Pinochet.
The
leadership of the DPRK has sought meetings with the US leadership for
decades. The North Koreans never refused negotiations. The US refused
all such meetings, perhaps assuming they could impose US will by force,
in any case. South Korean “Decapitation Units” directly contradict US Secretary of State Tillerson’s
assurance that the US “does not seek regime change, nor regime
collapse.” The new South Korean “Decapitation Unit,” the “Spartan 3000,
will be mandated to conduct ‘cross-border raids with retooled
helicopters and transport planes that penetrate North Korea at night.”
This is a situation absolutely identical to the South Korean
provocations that led to the 1950-1953 Korean war.
During the September 11 Security Council meeting at which the new sanctions resolution was adopted, Chinese Ambassador Liu stated:
“We hope the US will incorporate the following four ‘don’ts into its relevant policies regarding the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: don’t seek regime change, don’t incite a collapse of the regime, don’t seek an accelerated reunification effort of the peninsula, and don’t send its military north of the thirty-eighth parallel.”
Russian Ambassador Nebenzia stated:
“The measures involving financial and economic pressure on the
leadership of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea had basically
been exhausted and any further restrictions would be tantamount to
attempts to suffocate its economy, including the placing of a total
embargo on the country and provoking a deep humanitarian crisis. In
other words, what we are talking about here is not just cutting off the
channels that allow for banned nuclear and missile activities, but,
rather, inflicting unacceptable damage on innocent
civilians……Furthermore, the authors’ unwillingness to include in the
resolution the idea of using the good offices and mediation potential of
the Secretary-General, as well as the refusal to reaffirm the statement
made by the United States Secretary of State, Mr. Tillerson, on the
‘Four Nos’—that there are no plans to start a war, effect regime change,
force the reunification of the two Koreas or violate the 38th
parallel—all give rise to very serious questions in our minds to which
we have not yet received answers.
The
UN Secretary General is adamantly opposed to a military solution, and
equally adamant that only a negotiated solution is permissible. However,
the US opposes his utilizing his “good offices” to peacefully resolve
the crisis.
While
it is impossible to predict the outcome, when taken together, the US
actions seem to indicate their intent to attack the DPRK, overtly or
covertly, or through proxies, though the risks are catastrophic. Only
the dangerous possibility of China’s involvement could deter this
intent. North Korea is now being crushed economically and subjected to
intolerable provocations. Although the “status quo” may appear to be in
the interest of all parties, recalcitrant and irrational aggressive
forces are being unleashed within US-NATO, with or without UN
authorization. If US-NATO military power is permitted to obliterate
North Korea, their resultant intoxication with military force, combined
with their economic weakness makes it inevitable that China and Russia
are their next quarry. It is imperative that Russia and China take this
seriously, as they surely do. The time is long overdue for Russia and
China to use their veto power. Their appeasement of US/NATO interests is
short-sighted and enabling a war of possibly incalculable proportions.
It is preferable to live with a nuclear armed North Korea than to die in
a nuclear holocaust. Indeed, even the venerable Susan Rice factored in
this option.
Image on the left is Former President Jimmy Carter (Source: The Carter Center / Facebook)
And it is time for US-NATO to heed the words of former President Jimmy Carter:
“The North Koreans emphasized that they wanted peaceful relations with the United States and their neighbors, but were convinced that we planned a preemptive military strike against their country. They want a peace treaty, especially with America to replace the ceasefire agreement that had existed since the end of the Korean war in 1953, and to end the economic sanctions that had been very damaging to them during that long interim period. A commitment to peace by the United States and North Korea is crucial.”
Yesterday
the North Korean Foreign Ministry stated that the UN Security Council
resolutions are an “infringement on its legitimate right to
self-defense, and aim at completely suffocating its state and people
through full-scale economic blockade.” These United Nations Resolutions
are deliberate provocations, actually inflaming and exacerbating this
crisis. And it is possible that the authors of the September 11
Resolution anticipated and actually intended this outcome. War is
profitable. It should be no surprise that today North Korea launched
another missile, demonstrating its capacity. And today the UN Security
Council is holding another “emergency” meeting. One can only hope that
Russia and China will take a stand against any continuation of this
vicious spiral.
Carla Stea is Global Research’s correspondent at United Nations Headquarters, New York, N.Y.
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statement in this article.Copyright © Carla Stea, Global Research, 2017
