North Korea…The Country That Refuses US Edicts!

Aqil Sheikh Hussein

A mad dictator is leading a rogue state and seeking to torpedo with nuclear bombs South Korea, Japan, and even the US--all democratic countries that are passionate about freedom and merely concerned with serving the noble humanitarian causes. In a nutshell, this is the wily story of the ferocious, malicious lamb, avid to prey the humble wolf. This is the story pretexted by the departments of international hostility each time the US and its allies decide to implement one of their hegemony schemes.
The spiraling tensions in the Korean peninsula are the result of a series of conflicts which began with the collapse of the Korean empire, then continued with the defeat of Russia's tsarist rule in 1905 and Japan's grip of Korea, until Japan's trounce before the US troops in 1945.
Ever since, Korea-maybe more than any other Asian country which was previously under Japan's occupation-had to constitute a subject for the US and former URSS greed.

Despite the climate which was then adequate for socialist ideas in Korea, Soviets, who had prioritized their positions in the countries they had liberated from the Nazi occupation in east and central Europe, were content with occupying the northern part of Korea, located at latitude 38˚N, leaving the southern part for the Americans.

But the Americans, who had hit ailing and defeated Japan in 1945 with atomic bombs to compel it to surrender, were determined to dominate the entire Korean peninsula, seeking to take over a strategic point in Asia that would help them later with their confrontations with Soviets, and also with China, which was about to turn into a communist state under the term of Mao Zedong.

Between 1945 and 1950, North Korea was building its communist regime under the leadership of Kim Il-Sung, backed by Soviets and the revolutionary climate in China. In South Korea, the Americans were implementing the policy they had adopted in Europe and containing veteran Nazis. They embraced former agents of the Japanese occupation and assigned them with key posts in the state administrations. They also refused to recognize the political and grassroots organizations formed by Koreans, which sparked many popular and labor uprisings.

Since warship is the US favorite option to change the course of history, Americans had fueled the war which erupted between 1950 and 1953, and spearheaded it under the UN flag, with the participation of western armies, in order to oust the ruling regime in Pyongyang and control the communism extension throughout Asia, especially after communists had won the Chinese civil war on 1949. But the Americans failed, despite the showers of traditional and napalm bombs US bombers were firing on the cities in the North, and despite the US threats of resorting to chemical, viral, and nuclear weapons. As a result, the division of the peninsula was consecrated; and instead of signing a truce, a cease-fire was agreed and war remained between the two states, until today.

Since that time, tens of limited confrontations erupted between the two Koreas. Nonetheless, dialogue kicked off between the two countries' leaders since 1972, and many meetings took place, in order to press for peace and economic prosperity in the peninsula. Cooperation was mainly crystalized with South Korea's establishing a huge industrial complex in North Korea.
Within the frame of the six-party talks in 2003, Pyongyang agreed to dismantle its nuclear facilities and even to destroy some of them. But the US did not renege on its hegemony scheme. It is still seeking to hit North Korea, this sole country which had practically remained steadfast in the face of the collapse of other communist states.

The US did nothing to dissipate Pyongyang fears, but instead, it insisted on making North Korea totally renounce its nuclear program and halt its ballistic missiles experiments.

Will North Korea-the country that has been incurring the brunt of tough economic sanctions, political pressures, and military threats-have to eventually obey US edicts so it is no more a rogue state? Will it have to accept to join the world's yielding queue enjoying US blessings for crimes against people?