Korea Remains None Of The United States Governments Business By Jacob G. Hornberger!!!
(2018-05-01 at 15:25:09 )

Korea Remains None of the United States Governments Business by Jacob G. Hornberger

While pundits can engage in endless debate over whether President Trumps sanctions forced North Korean dictator Kim Jung-un to the negotiating table or whether Kims threat of firing nuclear weapons at the United States forced Trump to the negotiating table, one thing that the mainstream commentators are ignoring is the discomforting fact that Korea remains none of the United States governments business.

Let us keep in mind that this is a civil war we are dealing with, no different in principle from Americas civil war. The Korean civil war is no more the business of the United States government than the United States civil war was the business of the Korean government.

There is another discomforting fact that the pundits seem to ignore: The original United States intervention into the Korean civil war was illegal under our form of government.

That is because under the United States form of constitutional government, the president and the Pentagon are prohibited by law from waging war against another nation-state without first securing a congressional declaration of war against that nation-state.

It is undisputed that the United States government went to war against North Korea in 1950 without the congressional declaration of war required by the United States Constitution. That made the United States intervention into the conflict illegal under our form of government.

The presence of United States troops in South Korea today stems from that original illegal intervention. Their continued presence in Korea is the rotten fruit of the original illegal tree of United States intervention into a countrys civil war that was never any of the United States governments business.

Back in 1950, President Truman and his newly established national-security establishment attempted to justify their intervention into Koreas civil war by saying that North Koreas attempt to militarily unify the country was part of a worldwide communist conspiracy to take over the United States and the rest of the world.

If North Korea were permitted to unify the country under communist rule, United States officials said, it would be the first step in an ultimate Red takeover of the United States.

But it was all balderdash. Even if North Korea had prevailed in the conflict, that would not have meant that the communists would soon be running the Internal Revenue Service. The Korean War was just a civil war, no different in principle from Americas civil war, where President Lincolns forces invaded the South to militarily re-unify the country.

By the way, President Johnson, the Pentagon, and the Central Intelligence Agency would use the same argument they used in the Korean War to justify their intervention into Vietnams civil war almost 15 years later.

Once again waging war illegally without the constitutionally required congressional declaration of war, United States officials maintained that if the United States government failed to prevent North Vietnam from unifying the country under communist rule, other "dominoes" would begin falling to the worldwide communist conspiracy and America would end up turning Red.

Once again, it was all balderdash. Neither the civil war in Vietnam nor the civil war in Korea was ever a threat to the United States. American soldiers who died or were maimed in those interventions were not protecting the United States because the United States was never under any danger of falling to the Reds as a result of those two civil wars.

To this day, United States national-security state officials maintain that the Korean War protected the "freedom" of South Korea. They conveniently ignore that South Korea was ruled for decades by a brutal right-wing, anti-communist dictatorship, one that justified its dictatorial powers by the threat of "communism."

Ironically, United States officials used that same threat to justify their conversion of the United States government from a constitutionally limited-government republic into a national-security state type of governmental system after World War II.

Trump and the United States national-security establishment have stated that North Korea must dismantle its nuclear weapons as a condition for a negotiated peace. Their demand is unconditional. Time will tell whether North Korea will accede to it.

But one thing is clear: North Koreas acquisition of nuclear weapons is the direct consequence of the decades-long United States intervention in Korea and, specifically, the long-time threat by United States officials to effect a regime-change operation against North Korea, similar to the ones they have employed against countries like Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iran, Guatemala, Chile, Cuba, Panama, Grenada, Congo, Brazil, and many others.

If United States troops had never been sent to Korea or if United States troops had been withdrawn decades ago, there would have been no reason for North Korea to acquire nuclear weapons because there would have less concern with deterring or defending against a United States regime-change operation. After all, why would North Korea want to use nuclear weapons against South Korea even if the civil war were to resume? At the risk of belaboring the obvious, it is difficult to unify a land that is radiated for the next 100 years.

Korea belongs to the Koreans. It is their country, north and south. It does not belong to the United States. The civil war between north and south Korea is none of the United States governments business. If the civil war were to resume, that would be a matter for the Koreans, just as the American civil war was a matter for Americans. It would not be the business of the United States government, any more than it was 68 years ago.

Thus, the real solution to the crisis in Korea lies not with some deal being reached between President Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

The real solution is simply for Trump and his national-security establishment to butt out of a conflict that is none of their business by simply bringing all United States troops home and leaving Korea to the Koreans.

Printed here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Great Website!!