Gordon Taylor wrote:
>
> Do those who of you who think the South is a military threat to the North also
> think that the South started the war back in 1951? (perhaps anyone who would
> beleive that also doesn't beleive the Holocaust happened.)
>
Response: Perhaps take a look at I.F. Stone's " Hidden History of the
Korean War" Also, why did the U.S. Government attempt to buy up and
destroy the first-run and other run copies of this book?
> Is it reactionary for the people of South Korea to be willing to fight the
> North to preserve the limited freedoms that they have now from being destroyed?
>
Response: How exactly are the wishes or intentions of "the people" of
South Korea expressed and understood exactly. Every election or
summary placement of puppets (Syngman Rhee, Pak Cung Hee, Chun Doo
Wan, Rho Tae Woo, Kim Young Sam) has been rigged. South Korea is
dominated by a domestic Chaebol, a puppet State, U.S. occupation
forces and the power centers of the U.S. and Japan; further, even
among the so-called "conservatives" there are increasing calls for
"Tong Il" or unification as "Minjookjui" or sense of Korean ethnicity
and history is very strong.
> How many people are aware that Karl Marx did not take a stand of militant
> pacifism regarding the Franco-Prussian war? He made no bones about the fact
> that he thought a Prussian victory would be a setback for the
rights of workers and peasants of Europe.
Response: So What? What does this have to do with modern-day Korea?
Quote mongering/appeal to authority proves what exactly?
A war in Korea would mean suffering for the world, whether or not the United
> States is involved. It would mean a million or so slaughtered in a fairly short
> time. It would mean disruption of the world economy, and you know who pays when
> that happens. It is always those with the least to lose. Forget about any
> nihilistic fantasies that hard times are somehow going to lead to world
> revolution. When ever I hear that one, I think of Lenin's happy anticipation
> regarding the soon to come World War. He was quite positve that if and when it
> came, the result would be world revolution. The only place to have an actual
> "socialist" revolution just happened to be the country where Lenin happened to
> be from. What a coincidence.
Of course, anyone who would rejoice with war is very sick. Nuclear
War or even the concept of limited/winnable nuclear war is even more
sick and twisted. As who exactly is armed with tactical nuclear
weapons in Korea? Who exactly has announced a willingness to use
tactical nukes with no specification even of the conditions/thresholds
under which they would be employed.
> World War I set Europe backward, and destroyed the possibility of peaceful
> reform. It set the stage for the rise of Fascism, and then for the
sequel to
> World War I. Anyone who liked the WWI no doubt loved WWII.
>
> It has been said that empires are the most dangerous when they are coming to
> power, and when they are falling from power. As NK is disintergrating, there is
> no telling what there God-Emporer might do, especially considering that he is
> surrounded by a bunch of political eunichs whose lives depend on telling Baby
> Kim what he wants to hear. If US troops can serve as a deterrent to war, then
> so be it. If that makes me a social-imperialist or a social-patriot, so be it.
Response: Perhaps apply this concept to the U.S. as a disintegrating
empire in terms of ability/willingness to project global power and
forge global alliances, in terms of having fiscal maneuvering room
for power projection, in terms of global perceptions of the U.S.
system and increasing resentment at the U.S. Government once again
presuming to talk to anyone about human rights and "civilization";
> Also, if the North has peaceful intentions, how does one those infiltration
> tunnels leading into the south?
Response:
The so-called infiltration tunnels were a favorite of Pak Chung Hee
(focus on an "external" enemy to attempt to build internal unity)
right before declarations of martial law. Korean People are one
people and will remain so no matter if imperialists attempt to draw
some artificial line and declare "North" and "South" or "East and
West"-- wherever; this "Cold War" type propaganda is even too crude
for the present puppets and their masters who run South Korea today.
What is really distressing and really ignorant in this polemic is
this notion of "North" and "South" Korea which shows complete
ignorance of the history of the division and the basis upon which the
line at the 38th parallel was drawn.
Why have Korean students been continually rioting?
Jim Craven
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