Scoundrel Media North Korea Bashing

by Stephen Lendman (stephenlendman.org - Home - Stephen Lendman)

Washington is the bad guy in dealing with North Korea, not the other way around.

The DPRK is genuinely concerned about possible US aggression, its main strategy of choice against one country after another, raping and destroying them. 

Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile programs are solely for deterrence, not preemptive war against any nation.

Washington wants these programs frozen and abandoned to render the country defenseless, vulnerable to destruction the way it was devastated by Truman's war.

Pyongyang needs a formidable defense, its best chance to prevent another hugely destructive war on the Korean peninsula, affecting the entire region if launched.

US media scoundrels are virtual Pentagon press agents, notably The New York Times and neocon/CIA-connected Washington Post.

Both broadsheets urge toughened US policy on Pyongyang, instead of pointing fingers where blame belongs.

They ignored decades of US hostility toward the DPRK because of its sovereign independence, no other reason, forcing its government to pursue weapons strong enough to deter possible US aggression - for the second time in its history if launched.

The Times calls North Korea's nuclear program "a problem in urgent need of a solution," stressing Trump "can't rely on China" to do it.

Fact: Pyongyang wouldn't need nukes and ballistic missiles if Washington and its rogue allies recognized its sovereign independence, if their rhetoric was respectful, not bellicose, if US-launched war on the Korean peninsula wasn't an ominous possibility.

A separate Times commentary urged tougher sanctions, taking steps to get Pyongyang to freeze its nuclear and ballistic missile programs, along with intrusive inspections monitoring compliance no country would accept.

WaPo lied saying the DPRK may threaten the US mainland with nuclear-armed ICBMs in perhaps a couple of years.

It threatens no other countries, certainly not America able to turn its nation into a smoldering wasteland, killing millions of its people.

WaPo praised Trump's renunciation of "strategic patience" instead of denouncing it. 

Its editors urged economic strangulation, rejecting Sino/Russian calls for suspending the DPRK's nuclear and ballistic missile programs, along with halting provocative US/South Korean military exercises Pyongyang views as preparation for attacking its country.

The only way to resolve differences between its government and US-led Western ones is by diplomatic outreach and talks.

Trump's bellicose approach won't work. Risking possible nuclear war on the Korean peninsula is an unthinkable option - yet it looms ominously possible.

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