American imperialists will consider North Korea’s latest missile testing as a global threat and an end to western civilization. But whom are they lying to? American imperialism has sought to sank and distort civilizations for their own economic interest. Whether it’s North Korea or Iran (whose citizens of both countries not only suffer from state repression, but also the affects US sanctions)—they are irrelevant in comparison to US imperialism and its global aggression. The real global threat is American imperialism and its successful strategies in dominating and third-worldizing states.
Self-professed political pundits ignore the geopolitical infrastructure of Korea and its bloody history. American imperialism in Korea starts from the 1800s, where the expansionist ideology, Manifest Density, had made them colonize Kanghwa beach, which led to 600 Korean casualties.
During the end of World War II, Korean leftist exiles joined together to create Korean People’s Republic (KPR), but were quickly dismantled due to reactionary and foreign colonialism.
“Korea was divided on the 38th parallel. The US made sure to keep the capital, Seoul, and key ports. Essentially, the US took as much of Korea as it thought the Russians would allow. This division planted the seeds of the Korean War, causing a five-year revolution and counter-revolution that escalated into the Korean War.”
American imperialism is also responsible for its counter-revolutionary acts, which suppressed strikes and opposition against American expansionism:
“Shut out of politics, Koreans who sought an independent democratic state took to other methods and a mass uprising occurred. A strike against the railroads in September 1946 by 8,000 railway workers in Pusan quickly grew into a general strike of workers and students in all of the South’s major cities. The US military arrested strike leaders en masse. In Taegu, on Oct. 1, huge riots occurred after police smashed picket lines and fired into a crowd of student demonstrators, killing three and wounding scores. In Yongchon, on Oct. 3, 10,000 people attacked the police station and killed more than 40 police, including the county chief. Some 20 landlords and pro-Japanese officials were also killed. A few days later, the US military declared martial law to crush the uprising. They fired into large crowds of demonstrators in numerous cities and towns, killing and wounding an unknown number of people.”
In addition,
“In September, Rhee’s new government launched a massive counterinsurgency operation under US command. S. Brian Willson reports it resulted in the killing of “60,000 Islanders, with another 40,000 desperately fleeing in boats to Japan. Thus, one-third of its residents were either murdered or fled during the ‘extermination’ campaign. Nearly 40,000 homes were destroyed and 270 of 400 villages were leveled.” It was an ugly attack, Iggy Kim notes: “Torture, mutilation, gang rape and arbitrary execution were rife… a quarter of the Jeju population had been massacred. The US embassy happily reported: ‘The all-out guerilla extermination campaign came to a virtual end in April with order restored and most rebels and sympathizers killed, captured, or converted.’” This was the single greatest massacre in modern Korean history and a warning of what was to come in the Korean War.”
American imperialism directly affects the Korean masses, where they suffer from military aggression. The American working class are taught to hate North Koreans due to the ‘semi-fascist’ regime—the hatred only helps in establishing chauvinism within the working masses and also isolates workers from a possible revolution. As Trotsky said, “The American worker is indescribably reactionary. It is shown today that he is not even yet won for the idea of social insurance. Because of this the American Communists are obligated to advance reform demands.” The American workers can easily become chauvinists.
Is America better than North Korea? Such propositions should be immediately condemned due to the fact that it essentially leads to a chauvinist response. American Imperialism is incomparable. Sure, if you want to compare US Imperialism to other countries—I can wholeheartedly say that America is quite successful in completing their job by sacking workers’ lives into the gutter.
Self-professed leftists have supported US aggression against the North Korean people due to the irresponsibly of the state bureaucracy that has formed in DPRK. American imperialism has sought to destroy and sack the DPRK into bits and left murdering thousands of civilians during the Korean War. Due to economic sanctions and isolationism, North Korea will be unable to defend itself if a possible war breaks out with America.
The North Korean threat is not a threat. The American working class has more important things to worry about. Certainly, the most important thing to be worried about is US military aggression.
Sources
North Korea and the United States: Will the Real Aggressor Please Stand Down?
Michael Parenti, North Korea: “Sanity” at the Brink
Leon Trotsky, On Black Nationalism Documents on the Negro Struggle (1940)
North Korea Lacks Technology to Carry Out War Plans: