The Bizarre Trump-Kim Summit By Jacob G. Hornberger!!
(2018-06-11 at 16:35:11 )

The Bizarre Trump-Kim Summit by Jacob G. Hornberger

Overlooked in all of the hullabaloo over the summit in Singapore between United States President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un are two bizarre things: One, the United States government is the root cause of the crisis that President Trump is trying to resolve and, two, the fact that South Korean president Moon Jae-in is not an equal player in the summit.

It is important to remind ourselves of fundamentals. The Korean War was always been between North Korea and South Korea. It was never a war between North Korea and the United States. That is, North Korea never attacked the United States and it never invaded the United States. In 1950, North Korea attacked and invaded South Korea in an attempt to unify the country under communist rule. Thus, the war has always been a civil war between two halves of what used to be one country (just like the Vietnam War was).

So, how did the United States government become a combatant in Koreas civil war? By butting into the conflict and sending United States soldiers, many through conscription, and United States bomber aircraft to fight on the side of South Korea.

What business did the United States government have in butting into another nations civil war?? No business at all.

But this was 1950, when the United States governments foreign policy of interventionism was in full swing, especially now that the newly established United States national-security state was scaring the American people into believing that, without foreign intervention, the communists would come and get them.

It is worth mentioning that the United States intervention was done without the constitutionally required congressional declaration of war, making the intervention illegal under our form of government.

United States bombers wreaked massive death and destruction in both South and North Korea, far more death and destruction than would have been the case had the United States government stayed out of the conflict. The North Korean people have never forgotten the death and destruction wreaked upon them by a foreign buttinski regime.

Once the fighting was suspended three years later, the United States government decided to keep its troops in South Korea, thereby assuring a continuous flashpoint with which to scare the American people with the prospect that the Reds were coming to get them. Despite the passage of almost 70 years and the end of the Cold War more than 25 years ago, United States troops are still in Korea.

For those seven decades, United States officials have always made it clear that their hope and aim is regime change in North Korea, one by which North Koreas communist regime is ousted from power and replaced by a pro-United States regime. (They have the same goal with communist Cuba. Apparently, not so much anymore with communist Vietnam.) That is what the ever-increasing economic sanctions against North Korea are all about - to inflict massive economic suffering, including death by starvation and illness, on the North Korean populace in the hope that they will violently revolt against their regime and replace it with a pro-United States regime.

To regularly remind North Korean officials of the constant danger they face of regime change, United States officials have regularly maintained military "drills" in South Korea, which include the not-so-gentle reminder of B-52 bombers ready to wreak death and destruction, once again, with carpet-bombing campaigns on villages and towns across North Korea.

That is why North Korea acquired nuclear weapons in the first place - to deter a United States regime-change operation. And that is the thing to keep in mind: If the United States government had never intervened in Korea in the first place or if it had come home once hostilities were suspended, North Korea would never had any reason to acquire nuclear weapons.

It is United States interventionism that has caused North Korea to acquire nuclear weapons as a way to deter a United States regime-change operation.

Therefore, it is quite bizarre that the entire conflict has been turned into a United States demand for "denuclearization" rather than an effort by North Korea and South Korea to resolve their differences by arriving at their own peace treaty.

Let us assume that President Trump succeeds in getting North Korea to "denuclearize." The mainstream press and the Trump acolytes will go ballistic in celebration over this grand "achievement." But what really is the achievement they will be celebrating? It is the United States resolution of a problem that it itself has caused!!

By the way, it was the same with ISIS. Trump acolytes and the United States national-security establishment are exulting over their defeat of ISIS, which, they said, posed a grave threat to United States "national security."

The underlying message was: "Do you see how important our national-security state is now? We needed it to defeat ISIS. The Pentagon, Central Intelligence Agency, and National Security Agency clearly deserve more money."

But lost in all the celebration over the United States governments victory over ISIS is a discomforting reality: The United States government, especially the United States national-security branch of the government, was responsible for the rise of ISIS in the first place.

That is because its illegal, brutal, deadly, and destructive invasion and occupation of Iraq gave rise to ISIS. If the United States regime-change invasion and war of aggression against Iraq had never occurred, there would have been no ISIS to defeat and, thus, no opportunity to celebrate the defeat of ISIS.

It is the same thing in Korea. If there had never been a United States intervention into Koreas civil war, or if United States forces had been brought home almost 70 years ago, there never would have been a nuclear crisis for President Trump and the United States national-security establishment to resolve.

That brings us to a second bizarre aspect of the Trump-Kim summit: the fact that South Korea is not part of the summit. Why not? It is their war!!

Why is the United States government taking command over peace negotiations with North Korea when the real war is between North Korea and South Korea?

Why are North Korea and South Korea not doing the negotiating??

In fact, I grimaced when I read that South Korea president Moon Jae-in was hoping to be invited to the summit.

That is amazing. Moon has effectively converted South Korea into a United States colony and is behaving as though President Trump is his master. Oh, if only Mr. Trump will invite me to attend and watch the summit or maybe just let me be a "mediator."

Mediator? Cheesh! That is embarrassing. Moon is so accustomed to playing the role of a deferential servant that it obviously has not dawned on him that South Korea is one of the two principal combatants in the Korean War. Again, the war has always been between North South and South Korea. The United States government simply butted into a conflict that was none of its business.

It is North and South Korea who should be having a summit. It is their war and it is their peace. They should be sitting down and arriving at a peace treaty, without United States President Donald Trump.

So what if they reach a deal that President Trump does not like. Moon can send Trump and his military forces packing, which is what South Korea should have done a long time ago.

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