Chossudovsky argues lots of things that I find to be utterly ridiculous at times, but he also provides plenty of sources to go with things that are more...moderate I suppose. He's generally very bang on when it comes to the Balkans, but there are some articles others have written on globall research that just boggle my mind. Funny though he states that it's the only country to lose 25% of its population in recent history, as I can think of a couple others, Serbia included that have lost even more than 25% of its population. While I do agree that yes, North Korea started the war, that doesn't justify the rampant carpet bombing of civilian targets and industry not even related to the war effort that caused severe destruction to North Korea, as a way of punishment, which smacks of what the US would go on to do in Vietnam and the former Yugoslavia.

Chossudovsky is a far left ideologue who twists facts to promote his extreme view of the world. The main evidence he gives for N. Korea's victimhood is that it lost so many people in the war it started. Militaristic North Korea, sponsored by the Soviet Union, invaded an ill prepared South Korea without warning. North Korea is the last Stalinist state on earth, and like Stalin has killed millions of it's own people with purges and starvation. Over the past two decades it has swung between confrontation and inch-by-inch conciliation with its neighbors and the United States, in an oscillation that seems to be driven both by its hard-to-fathom internal political strains and by an apparent belief in brinksmanship as the most effective form of diplomacy. Now it has successfully tested a nuclear weapon threatening to use it at any time.

I agree with the headline of this, the fact is North Korea is still having their own banks, S. Korea is in the middle of political change this torpedo issue smells Gulf of Tonkin Incident part II. The "Free" World or New World Order can't afford mavericks on the loose in their grand plan to control everything and everyone. N. Korea if they go out in an all out war with the S. Korea do not expect it to be over in a matter of weeks, the North lost 20% of its population during the last clash with the United States. There are deeply rooted cultural differences. For those that think this will be an easy reunification like East and West Germany are wrong, this is not one people one thought, this is on one side a dictatorial regime with a cult of personality behind it, the other side a western la, la land completely without any cultural bands of their own more than the propaganda machine that has brainwashed the south for the last fifty years. I say stop the genocide on its people and maybe it won’t trigger another war in this particular region. There is not enough high tech to win it.

The North Korea issue is now linked very closely to the current squabbles between China and the USA. North Korea is being squashed between these nations and existing problems and tensions are being exasperated. Both the US and China have tremendous sway over what happens in this region and by working together they could, if they chose to, in the large part at least, settle the Korean issues. I just hope that we don't see an emerging cold war between China and the USA turn hot on the Korean penninusla as the potential is very much there.

Could not agree more with the headline of this news topic North Korea is now going through the same sort of victimisation as Russia has been going through for the past twenty odd years by the United States, and it appears to me that the United States are beginning to run out of countries to blame for the most smallest of wrongs for which can be righted easily. I can only offer my support to North Korea because of being constantly being blamed for almost anything within the Korean space. I just wish that the United States stop victimising other countries to cast a bright glare of Cry-Baby United States. But thank goodness that Russia has always kept a level head and calmed so many part's of the Post-Soviet space, So maybe Russia will probably with the help of China help to calm the seas of the probable conflict of the South going against the North of Korea. However if this fails at least know this if Russia with the help of China did try to calm the situation between both of the Korea's rather than causing the blame game from the United States, the United States has to stop blaming, and start blaming themselves for causing this probable war that might happen between both Korea's and the United States will know that have caused this probable war and will have blood on their hands and will internationally lose international credit.

There are two possible agreements with North Korea: a) South Korea recognizes Independence of North Korea and says they are two different nations with a different way of life and different beliefs as in South Korea the most important religion is Christianity, becoming even different ethnicities. In fact, in South Korea not only there is a business spirit and a Christian majority but thousands of foreigners (Filipinos, Chinese, Americans and even Russians) are becoming part of a new melting pot so a new kind of people is being born. b) South Korea accepts Reunification by the end of the year once North Korea agrees to respect the Southern way of life. That would be great as North Koreans could know much better about market principles and about the way of life in the South. South Korea would become a Super-Hong Kong for North Korea. U.S.. troops would have to leave South Korea and the nuclear weapons costs would be shared by the whole nations. Kim-Sung would become the first President of Korea.