Whenever discussion over North Korea arises in Western circles, it always seems to be accompanied by a strange mixture of sensationalism and indifference. The mainstream media consistently presents the communist nation as an immediate threat to U.S. national security, conjuring an endless number of hypothetical scenarios as to how they could join forces with Al-Qaeda and attack with a terroristic strategy. At the same time, the chest puffing of the late Kim Jong-iL and the standard fare of hyper-militant rhetoric on the part of the North Korean government in general seem to have lulled the American public into a trance of non-concern.
In the midst of the latest tensions with the North Koreans, I have found that most people are barely tracking developments and that, when confronted by the idea of war, they shrug it off as if it is a laughable concept. “Surely” they claim, “The North is just posturing as they always have.”
The high-focus propaganda attacking North Korea on our side and the puffer fish methodology on their side have created a social and political atmosphere surrounding our relations with the Asian nation that I believe places both sides of the Pacific in great danger. North Korea has the potential to become a trigger point for multiple economic catastrophes, and there are people in this world who would be happy to use such crises to serve their own interests.
The mainstream view being espoused by globalist-minded politicians and corporate oligarchs with an agenda is that North Korea is a nuclear armed monstrosity ready to use any subversive means necessary to strike the United States. The idea that the North is working closely with Al-Qaeda has been suggested in everything from White House briefings to cable news to movies and television. The concept of pan-global terrorist collusion and the cartoon-land “axis of evil” has been prominent in our culture since the Administration of George W. Bush. It has even been making a resurgence lately in the MSM, which presented countries like Iran, Syria And North Korea as the primary culprits interfering with the success of the U.N. Small Arms Treaty.
Of course, what remains less talked about in the mainstream is the fact that these nations refuse to adhere to the treaty because carefully placed loopholes still allow major powers like the United States to feed arms into engineered insurgencies. Why would Syria or any other targeted nation sign a treaty that restricts its own sovereign ability to trade while giving teeth to internal enemies trained and funded by foreign intelligence agencies?
The establishment brushes aside such facts and consistently admonishes these countries as the last holdouts standing in the way of a new world order, a worldwide socioeconomic cooperative and pseudo-Utopia. The path to this wonderful global village is always presented as a battle against stubborn isolationists, non-progressives who lack vision and cling desperately to the archaic past. The values of personal and national sovereignty are painted as outdated, decrepit and even threatening to the newly born world structure. The image of North Korea is used by globalists as a kind of straw man argument against sovereignty. North Koreans’ vices and imbalances as a culture are many; but this is due in far larger part to their communist insanity, rather than any values of national independence. It is their domestic hive-mind collectivism we should disdain, not their wish to maintain a comfortable distance as a society from the global game.
As far as being an imminent physical threat to the United States, it really depends on the scenario. The North Koreans have almost no logistical capability to support an invasion of any kind. The nation has been suffering from epidemic famine for well more than a decade.
To initiate a war outright has never been in the best interests of the North Koreans, simply because their domestic infrastructure would not be able to handle the strain. However, there is indeed a scenario in which North Korea could be influenced to use military force despite apprehension.
With the ever looming threat of famine comes the ever looming threat of citizen revolution. When any government is faced with the possibility of being supplanted, it will almost always lash out viciously in order to maintain power and control, no matter the cost. Sanctions like those being implemented by the West against North Korea today, at the very edge of national famine, could destabilize the country entirely. I believe the North would do anything to avoid an internal insurgency scenario, including attacking South Korea to acquire food stores and energy reserves, as well as other tangible modes of wealth.
North Korea’s standing army, obtained through mandatory two year conscription, is estimated at about 1.1 million active personnel; very close to the numbers active in the U.S. armed forces. But North Korean reserves are estimated at more than 8 million, compared to only 800,000 in the United States. If made desperate by economic sanctions, the North Koreans could field a massive army that would wreak havoc in the South and be very difficult to root out on their home turf. Asian cultures have centuries of experience using asymmetric warfare (the kryptonite of the U.S. military), and I do not believe it is wise to take such a possible conflict lightly, as many Americans seem to do. It is easy to forget that the last Korean War did not work out so well for us. At best, we would be mired in on-ground operations for years (just like Iraq and Afghanistan) or perhaps even decades. Like North Korea, we also do not have the logistical economic means to enter into another such war.
The skeptics argue that we will never get to this point, though, because North Korea has brandished and blustered many times before, all resulting in nothing. I see recent events being far different and more urgent than in the past, and here’s why:
1) The West needs to realize that North Korea is under new leadership. The blowhard days of Kim Jung Il are over, and little is known about his son, Kim Jong Un. So far, the young dictator has followed through on everything he said he would do, including the multiple nuclear tests that the West is using as an excuse to exert sanctions. To assume that the son will be exactly like the father is folly.
2) Many people claimed that North Korean threats to abandon the Armistice in place since 1953 were empty, yet they dropped it exactly as they said they would at the beginning of March.
3) The North has begun cutting off direct communication channels to the South, including a cross-border hotline meant to help alleviate tensions through diplomatic means.
4) The North has officially declared a state of war against the South. This has been called mere “tough talk” by the U.S. government, but the speed at which these multiple developments have occurred should be taken into consideration.
5) North Korea has just announced the reopening of a shuttered nuclear reactor used to render weapons grade materials.
6) The DPRK has suddenly locked down the Kaesong Industrial Zone; a region which holds manufacturing centers for both North and South Korea. Southern manufacturers operating there employ nearly 50,000 Northern workers. Nearly 1000 Southerners also work there. The arrangement generates approximately $2 billion a year for the North. The joint industrial zone has existed since 2000, and the North has never locked down access until this past week. The fact that the DPRK is willing to restrict this area and possibly lose a sizable income signals that the situation is not as “mild” as some would like to believe.
7) At the beginning of this year, silver purchases by the North from China surged. For the entire year of 2012, the government purchased $77,000 worth of precious metals. In the first few months of 2013, North Korea has already purchased $600,000 in silver. The exact size of the North’s precious metals stockpile is unknown. Though seemingly small in comparison to many purported metal holdings by major powers, this sudden investment expansion would indicate a government move to protect internal finances from an exceedingly frail economic environment. Metals are also historically accumulated at a high rate by nations preparing for war or invasion in the near term.
Again, all that is needed to instigate an event on the Korean Peninsula are tightened sanctions. The establishment knows this, though another Gulf of Tonkin incident (an openly admitted false flag event) may be on the menu as well.
Given that the chances of a shooting war are high if sanctions continue, it might be wise to consider the consequences of conflagration in Korea.
Dealing with a large army steeped in asymmetric and mountain warfare will be difficult enough. In fact, an invasion of North Korea would be far more deadly than Afghanistan, if only because of the sheer number of maneuver elements (guerilla-style units) on the ground. But let’s set aside North Korea for a moment and consider the greatest threat of all: dollar collapse.
As I have discussed in numerous articles, China, the largest foreign holder of U.S. debt, has positioned itself to decouple from the American consumer and the dollar. This is no longer a theoretical process as it was in 2008, but a very real and nearly completed one. Mainstream analysts often claim China would never break from the dollar because it would damage their export markets and their investment holdings. The problem is, China is already dumping the dollar using bilateral trade agreements with numerous developing nations, Australia being the latest to abandon the greenback.
China isn’t just talking about it; China is doing it.
The development of a decoupled China is part of a larger push by international banks to remove the dollar as the world reserve currency and replace it with a new global currency. This currency already exists. The International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Rights (SDR) is a mechanism backed by a basket of currencies as well as gold. The introduction of the SDR on a wide scale is dependent on only two things:
First, China has been designated the replacement consumer engine in the wake of a U.S. collapse. They have already surpassed the United States as the No. 1 trading power in the world. However, they must spread their own currency, the Yuan, throughout global markets in order to aid the IMF in removing the dollar. China has recently announced a program to sell more than $6 trillion in Yuan denominated bonds to foreign investors, easily fulfilling this need.
Second, China and the IMF need a scapegoat event, a rationale for dumping the dollar that the masses would accept as logical. A U.S. invasion of North Korea could easily offer that rationale.
While China has been playing the good Samaritan in relations with the United States in dealing with North Korea and has supported (at least on paper) certain measures including sanctions, China will never be in support of Western combat actions in the Pacific so close to their territory. The kind of U.S. or NATO presence a war with North Korea would generate would be entirely unacceptable to the Chinese, who do not need to respond using arms. Rather, all they have to do to get rid of us would be to fully dump the dollar and threaten to cut off trade relations with any other country that won’t do the same. The domino effect would be devastating, causing U.S. costs to skyrocket and forcing us to pull troops out of the region. At the same time, the dollar would be labeled a “casualty of war” rather than a casualty of conspiratorial global banking designs, and the financial elites would be removed from blame.
Ultimately, we should take the North Korean situation seriously not because of the wild-eyed propaganda of the mainstream media and not because they are “doing business with terrorists” or because they are a “violent and barbaric relic of nationalism,” but because a war in North Korea serves the more malicious interests of globalization. No matter what happens in the near future, it is important for Americans to always question the true motives behind any event and ask ourselves who, in the end, truly benefited.
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written by Henry Bowman , April 03, 2013
and I would have gotten away with it to if it wasn't for those meddling kids and there dog.....Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, something wicked this way comes
written by joe schmo , April 03, 2013
Fantastic article. I would only add that a conflagration of Biblical proportions is now almost a certainty. The bigger picture here is the cascade effect of a military conflict being reignited on the Korean peninsula. I believe these recent actions by the North Koreans signal that we are now officially in the preliminary stages of a gestating third world war. All that's left is for the first missiles and/or artillery barrage to be launched. What happens to the status of our currency is irrelevant in the face of a potential global conflict involving nearly every nation on earth.
written by Sergio , April 03, 2013
What remains to be seen is if this latest escalation with the North is the hammer cocking, or the hammer falling.
North Korea has been specially positioned in our culture to be a fall-guy to globalist concerns at some point in the future. The humanitarian suffering in that country aside, North Korea has been demonized, humiliated, and scapegoated to no end by the American MSM.
It's a truism in global affairs that the elites are efficient in their messaging. Where one things appears over and over to drive home a point, that thing will ultimately fulfill its promise in the eyes of the socially conditioned. Americans have been readied for a war on the Korean Peninsula in the modern era for years and years.
Recent events in Europe and America suggest the pace of evil's advance is quickening, even to the point that many pundits in alternative media are battening down their hatches and claiming the die has been cast.
It is unfortunate that the Korean promise (read: war) is coinciding so fluidly with the economic exasperation being felt all around the developed world.
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On a side note, I am surprised by the speed at which the United States has achieved its "Asian Pivot." My read on the culture, like others perhaps, was that the U.S. military was looking to engage in Asia sometime closer to 2020. We were brought up in the 90's to believe that war with China was inevitable, but that it was a prospect for 2025, about the same time we sent a man to Mars.
written by garden gritty , April 03, 2013
Everything the "globalists" have done/are doing/will continue to do (for a time!) is escalating very rapidly?
Every venue of human societies including medical healthcare with it's toxic drugs with molds and other destructive pathogens that cause more death and health destruction, failing currencies, destructive EMI/RFI energy (old technology being foisted as "new"), increasingly intense weather events, nations rising against nations and kingdoms rising against kingdoms - human destruction lies in their wake.
Our leaders have given over their control to the satanic beast.
According to biblical information - they will succeed - BUT only for a while. Satan will have his way and it will be very evil - for a time.
We only have hope in the living God Who has already warned us of these things ahead of time in His majestic Holy Scriptures.
This evil and wicked population will be ashes and stubble but not before they do great damage. It is astounding how evil and soulless and persevering they are for their self-absorbed, yet limited agenda. Satan does not let go easily and this is his big moment!
written by Ordinary Joe , April 03, 2013
Another outstanding article.
I digested most of what you said and can agree with most of it. However, I do not think it will be a conventional war, asymmetric or otherwise. The only hope of containing the US is by reducing its ability to use force projection with C3 from stateside commands. An EMP attack from an orbiting platform or sea launched from container ships will cripple the communications infrastructure in the states and place a significant burden on the government to handle the emergency at home.
Add China and Russia to the mix and NK would have an enormous advantage.
written by Allan3 , April 03, 2013
I believe that people also need to come to grips with the fact that NK is not alone. They have at least 2 really powerful backers.
written by Brandon Smith , April 03, 2013
@Joe
I think in either case, conventional war or tech reliant war, any military action by the U.S. is going to require boots on the ground to secure NK nuclear materials. That kind of presence WILL induce Chinese economic retaliation.
written by Samuel Adams , April 03, 2013
Wonder what would happen if they attack SK and we do nothing? That would put a kink in the globalist plans.
Of course, I know that isn't a possibility since we have a president foaming at the mouth to destroy this Country.
written by dosequis , April 03, 2013
The globalists are doing everything they can to shut down America. They want us disarmed and under full control. As long as Americans have an uninhibited ability to travel any where and access to guns we are their biggest threat. In their minds this is their planet, and we are to be herded like cattle, and largely exterminated, due to their belief of human over population. They preach about a Gene Roddenberry future world with a resource based economy, but the real objective is to enslave us all. WW3 is apart of achieving their objectives with out drawing attention directly to them.
written by Charles Savoie , April 03, 2013
Can you think of any better example than Henry Kissinger? There's news that anyone in the PM community could have carried, but very few did. Let them explain why this info is not relevant, or that it's just made up. I haven't heard from the censors denying their readers info on either of these accounts---
http://silvermarketnewsonline....2813.pdf
