North Korea and the vanishing American Empire

Does Kim Jung Il read the newspapers?
By Mike Whitney

Does Kim Jung Il read the newspapers? If Kim thumbed through today’s news he would have seen the limp and bloodied body of a dead Palestinian boy being rushed away from the site of Israel’s latest attack in Gaza. He would have read about the mysterious explosions that rocked Kabul overnight and the 30 or so "alleged" Taliban that were blown up in America’s scattershot carpet-bombing of southern Afghanistan. He would have seen that 24 new bodies of bound and brutalized Iraqis had been dumped at the Baghdad morgue after being abducted and tortured by the roaming death squads which control the capital. He might have spotted a story about America’s continued involvement in Central Asia where the thirst for oil and natural gas has Bush’s NGOs toppling governments behind the pretext of "spreading democracy". Or, he may have noticed an article which recounted Bush’s latest saber-rattling at Iran for their "alleged" nuclear weapons program. Wherever he looked, he would have found examples of the United States and Israel rampaging through Muslim countries; ignoring international law and flaunting the human rights of the native people. Doesn’t this explain why Kim believes that he needs the protection of a nuclear arsenal to ward off an American attack?. How can we expect North Korea to stop building nukes when 2 of the world’s most powerful nations have just doused the planet with gasoline and are reaching for the matches? Like every other world leader, Kim simply wants to avoid ending up like Saddam Hussein...

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