Earthquake epicenters of the Korean Peninsula is to illustrate the further compromise of the mining industry on the peninsula causing even more preceived human rights abuses.
Saturday, May 06, 2006
There was never an impetus to war in North Korea that economic health would not have stopped.
Earthquake epicenters of the Korean Peninsula is to illustrate the further compromise of the mining industry on the peninsula causing even more preceived human rights abuses.
World War II was fought against fascism, not communism.
Pre - Korean War and with the division of authority on the Korean Peninsula came a gross difference in power as each country eventually would achieve it's autonomy.
Democracy is a foreign concept to Asia. Never, before WWII had a democratic authority manifested in any country on that great continent. A continent where concentrated meditation was part of the religion and a part of the soul of most peoples of Asia. Meditation is time consuming and not profitable.
But.
Then.
Praying five times a day is as well.
Survival of the human spirit as well as the human body took the appearance in Asia of barbaric by most Western countries.
During the European Renaissance an arrogance within Western Culture would find it's way to evolve and be justified as a prolonged bigotry. In the modern Neocon culture, 'big brains' is considered an asset to any person. That directly stems from the time when measuring craniums discovered through archeological digs in Africa defined intelligence. It's hideously defined and today in Anthropology and Archeology such measurements are used to define ONLY the difference between genus of species of 'homo' including the developement of Homo sapien.
As a political side note, the new Bush Press Secretary has a big head, both by physical attributes and ego. I find it amusing. It's a statement to the impoverished electorate of the Neocon Republican Party.
Back to business.
Democracy would become a 'choice' government by the prejudiced West, regardless the opportunity for it to be an effective government. Much of the prejudice, over time, would be based in fear. Fear that people looking differently both in features and skin color were as threatening as perhaps Hitler. After all, the oriental culture of Japan had manifested the Kamikaze, self-immolation. It was a cultural icon of the Japanese culture.
Self-immolation has always been considered an atrocity to the West and called by another name. Suicide. The entire concept of self-immolation is considered barbaric. In reality, it can be tragic. The manifested examples in even Western culture has resulted in mass suicides, including children as in the Jim Jones cult. Self-immolation is wrong as any society should be benevolent and not so violent that self sacrifice can become a dominant force within that culture ultimately destroying it. Where the 'West' sees barbarism other cultures see obligation.
This huge cultural divide would become a political tool for politicians easily converted to prejudice against countries established with communist governments. Eventually, Communism would be superimposed over the facsism of WW II and a driving force in Western foreign policy. The international policy would become a means of oppression to countries like North Korea.
Communism is not fascism. Not by a long shot. The one modern day montra against communism is as an 'evil' entity manifesting human rights abuses and bolstering the belief democracy works best for all peoples. The odd equation of that is incorrect.
Human rights abuses are caused by several reasons globally and usually resides in bigotry. The bigotry manifests frequently because of economic oppression. The economic oppression in the case of North Korea has been consistent and measurable since the USA influence in the south. It is used to punish the north for being communist. Being communist provides a government structure and a national defense regardless the wealth of the nation. By imposing impoverishment, the USA is not facilitating peace so much as enforcing conflict. To use impoverishment as a weapon is to cause a peoples to recognize a greater threat. If a country as powerful as the USA uses such tools it would then seek to destroy the very people that practice the communism.
Therefore.
North Korea has been cast into a corner with only a military solution as it's answer.
Democracy is a foreign concept to Asia. Never, before WWII had a democratic authority manifested in any country on that great continent. A continent where concentrated meditation was part of the religion and a part of the soul of most peoples of Asia. Meditation is time consuming and not profitable.
But.
Then.
Praying five times a day is as well.
Survival of the human spirit as well as the human body took the appearance in Asia of barbaric by most Western countries.
During the European Renaissance an arrogance within Western Culture would find it's way to evolve and be justified as a prolonged bigotry. In the modern Neocon culture, 'big brains' is considered an asset to any person. That directly stems from the time when measuring craniums discovered through archeological digs in Africa defined intelligence. It's hideously defined and today in Anthropology and Archeology such measurements are used to define ONLY the difference between genus of species of 'homo' including the developement of Homo sapien.
As a political side note, the new Bush Press Secretary has a big head, both by physical attributes and ego. I find it amusing. It's a statement to the impoverished electorate of the Neocon Republican Party.
Back to business.
Democracy would become a 'choice' government by the prejudiced West, regardless the opportunity for it to be an effective government. Much of the prejudice, over time, would be based in fear. Fear that people looking differently both in features and skin color were as threatening as perhaps Hitler. After all, the oriental culture of Japan had manifested the Kamikaze, self-immolation. It was a cultural icon of the Japanese culture.
Self-immolation has always been considered an atrocity to the West and called by another name. Suicide. The entire concept of self-immolation is considered barbaric. In reality, it can be tragic. The manifested examples in even Western culture has resulted in mass suicides, including children as in the Jim Jones cult. Self-immolation is wrong as any society should be benevolent and not so violent that self sacrifice can become a dominant force within that culture ultimately destroying it. Where the 'West' sees barbarism other cultures see obligation.
This huge cultural divide would become a political tool for politicians easily converted to prejudice against countries established with communist governments. Eventually, Communism would be superimposed over the facsism of WW II and a driving force in Western foreign policy. The international policy would become a means of oppression to countries like North Korea.
Communism is not fascism. Not by a long shot. The one modern day montra against communism is as an 'evil' entity manifesting human rights abuses and bolstering the belief democracy works best for all peoples. The odd equation of that is incorrect.
Human rights abuses are caused by several reasons globally and usually resides in bigotry. The bigotry manifests frequently because of economic oppression. The economic oppression in the case of North Korea has been consistent and measurable since the USA influence in the south. It is used to punish the north for being communist. Being communist provides a government structure and a national defense regardless the wealth of the nation. By imposing impoverishment, the USA is not facilitating peace so much as enforcing conflict. To use impoverishment as a weapon is to cause a peoples to recognize a greater threat. If a country as powerful as the USA uses such tools it would then seek to destroy the very people that practice the communism.
Therefore.
North Korea has been cast into a corner with only a military solution as it's answer.
The eonomic reality as to North Korea's potential is even more tragic. Geographically, North Korea has a shorter growing season and far greater climate of hardship with little farming potential. As a consequence North Korea and China for that matter have exploited their natural resources facilitated by mining. The mining industry regardless the country is littered with human rights abuses. In a country with little technology, such as North Korea, there is far more human tragedy in that industry than exists in Western nations.
Realizing that only enforces the realization that impoverishment of North Korea is a survival mechanism and not a choice by the government. If a country has little ability to move outside it's status economically EXCEPT to relinquish control of it's government there is no chance for change but only surrender. I do believe the people of the north on the Korean Peninsula have grown very tired of surrender and loss of their culture.
The Korean Peninsula has been trashed by power. In it's survival Pre-Industrial Revolution Korea had a cultural identity that was not dissimilar to much of Asia. It had it's own borders. It had it's own sophisticated rewards including trade routes that ultimately would result in invasion by Japan. The Ancient Japanese culture was so violent it literally destroyed every other culture in it's path. It's not the fault of the Korean Peninsula today that it's inherent culture was destroyed Pre - WW II by another culture that would come to be the enemy of the West and in particular the USA. It is however, the fault, of the USA to use the Korean Peninsula to extend it's western borders across the Pacific and enforcing an artificial boundary at the 38th parallel.
Now that South Korea enjoys a society based in Capitalism and Democracy, the West seems to think 'the fall' of North Korea is a right of the south. Where does that come from?
North Korea needs to be brought out of it's impoverishment with a right to it's sovereignty. It needs to be opened no differently than China. Where it falls short of doing that itself due to it's imposed impoverishment, there is opportunity with the south for economic exchange and the opportunity of a new economy for North Korea to be technologically savvy and in competition globally with items such as computer components. The West has provided a huge market in China. It has enabled such advances as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. North Korea has none of that. The same principles at work in China could easily apply to North Korea. If The West continues to cause North Korea hardship then it is imposing human rights abuses and not the Korean government.
The words of hatred of Bush's Neocons has to stop. Democracy cannot be imposed, but, it can be nurtured. The division of the Korean Peninsula was wrong in the first place and done out of fear and not understanding. The Korean Peninsula has been raped due to historical circumstances. It is time the north and the south resolve their elements of fear of each other and unit in cultural commonality. The sovereignty of each country is not in question but only the 'livability' of life on the Korean Peninsula. It's time to unite Korea in spirit and economy if not by boundary.
Break time. Next. Economics and impoverishment. Why it persists.
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... and why the entire damn mess has existed for over five decades without change until the return of a nuclear threat.
... the division of the Korean Peninsula occurred post WW II when the war to end all wars was the war chant.
The Japanese dominated southern peninsula was captured by the USA while the northern peninsula above the 38th parallel was taken by Russia. Russia, I remind, was an ally in that war. Russia had a right to it's sovereignty and it's portion of peacekeeping.
The southern peninsula was seen by the USA as a threat no different than Japan and after the two nuclear weapons dropped on Japan it came to be understood the USA would possess most of the strongholds of Japan.
Hence.
The great Korean divide.
Guess what?
Communism came to be the government of choice in the North while the South found it's incorporation of 'Democracy American Style' dominating it's society. Well. I'll be darn.
No magic here boys and girls. No evil. No 'Axis of Evil.' Simply history as it played out post WW II.
The 'story' is summerized like this:
South Korea was invaded by North Korea on June 25th, 1950. The United Nations sent military assistance. The Korean War lasted three years and inflicted terrible damage to Korea before a cease-fire ended the war in 1953. The 4 kilometer-wide area along the Military Demarcation Line which divides North and South Korea has become known as the DMZ, or Demilitarized Zone. Over the 52 years since the Korean War there have been continual conflicts along the DMZ.
South Korea continues in its efforts to unify North and South Korea.
The southern peninsula was seen by the USA as a threat no different than Japan and after the two nuclear weapons dropped on Japan it came to be understood the USA would possess most of the strongholds of Japan.
Hence.
The great Korean divide.
Guess what?
Communism came to be the government of choice in the North while the South found it's incorporation of 'Democracy American Style' dominating it's society. Well. I'll be darn.
No magic here boys and girls. No evil. No 'Axis of Evil.' Simply history as it played out post WW II.
The 'story' is summerized like this:
South Korea was invaded by North Korea on June 25th, 1950. The United Nations sent military assistance. The Korean War lasted three years and inflicted terrible damage to Korea before a cease-fire ended the war in 1953. The 4 kilometer-wide area along the Military Demarcation Line which divides North and South Korea has become known as the DMZ, or Demilitarized Zone. Over the 52 years since the Korean War there have been continual conflicts along the DMZ.
South Korea continues in its efforts to unify North and South Korea.
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The location on Mt. Tohamsan of the Seokguram Grotto. Buddhists simply adorn their serenity with nature.
This Grotto is believed to have been created by the society that united the Korean Peninsula long ago.
The Seokguram Buddhist Grotto
Designated as World Cultural Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1995, it is an artificial stone temple made of granites. The construction started with Kim Dae-Seong (700~774) in 751 during the reign of King Gyeong-Deok (742~765) of the Silla Dynasty (57 B.C.~A.D. 935) and it was finished in 774, after 24 years, during the reign of King Hye-Gong (765~780).
The Korean Peninsula has a gorgeous and dramatic history. Very violent. Very sophisticated.
The unique aspect of geography is that it is a 'science' of political dynamics little appreciated. Geography and Earth's formations have been used by humans since the beginning of time to survive. Castles in Europe demonstate the great diligence of lords and kings to place their fortresses in places that were remote and isolated and easily defended by any attack. There was little diplomacy in many of the 'eras' of human society so much as brute geography and domination.
With the advent of the telephone, the imposed Nuclear Era there became a 'need' to have a mechanism to settle international disputes before they started. The survival of humans turned from domination to understanding and cooperation and peace. That priority was paramount until this USA Administration currently holding power over the American people. This Bush Administration and it's cooperative and corrupt Senate and House has reverted the priority of peace into a slang word, replacing it with a Culture of Fear that repels peace in exchange for so called National Security. It's a faux for an administration of crime and exploitation exposing CIA agents and buying and selling government authority as in the Abramoff influence peddling scam.
So, to realize brutality is again a force on Earth is to realize how very small Earth actually is with the capacity of misguided Secretary's of Defense researching 'Bunker Buster Nuclear Weapons' while believeing the lies of his President regarding the world's dangers.
Peninsula - a portion of land nearly surrounded by water and connected with a larger body by an isthmus; also : a piece of land jutting out into the water whether with or without a well-defined isthmus
With the understanding of peninsula comes a deeper understanding of defensible borders open to trade by ships from foreign ports. In the case of the Korean Peninsula and it's history the further south one lived the more secure the society from the warring tribes of Manchuria.
The absolutely gorgeous history of the Korean Peninsula is a rather an incredible trip realizing the beauty and peace Buddism brings to a society allowing social growth toward sophistication.
The interruption of the Korean Peninsula starts with the aggressive years of Japan of the entire Asian continent and the oppression of the cultures there and the rise of Confucian government.
The unification of the current Geo-Political map of the Korean Peninsula should be entrenched in returning it's proud and sophisticated heritage to dominance as an impetus to bringing the both the North and South to common ground. The archeology alone of this entire peninsula is a magnificent venture into human developement toward sophisticated societies yet found anywhere else in the world or the orient for that matter.
With the advent of the telephone, the imposed Nuclear Era there became a 'need' to have a mechanism to settle international disputes before they started. The survival of humans turned from domination to understanding and cooperation and peace. That priority was paramount until this USA Administration currently holding power over the American people. This Bush Administration and it's cooperative and corrupt Senate and House has reverted the priority of peace into a slang word, replacing it with a Culture of Fear that repels peace in exchange for so called National Security. It's a faux for an administration of crime and exploitation exposing CIA agents and buying and selling government authority as in the Abramoff influence peddling scam.
So, to realize brutality is again a force on Earth is to realize how very small Earth actually is with the capacity of misguided Secretary's of Defense researching 'Bunker Buster Nuclear Weapons' while believeing the lies of his President regarding the world's dangers.
Peninsula - a portion of land nearly surrounded by water and connected with a larger body by an isthmus; also : a piece of land jutting out into the water whether with or without a well-defined isthmus
With the understanding of peninsula comes a deeper understanding of defensible borders open to trade by ships from foreign ports. In the case of the Korean Peninsula and it's history the further south one lived the more secure the society from the warring tribes of Manchuria.
The absolutely gorgeous history of the Korean Peninsula is a rather an incredible trip realizing the beauty and peace Buddism brings to a society allowing social growth toward sophistication.
The interruption of the Korean Peninsula starts with the aggressive years of Japan of the entire Asian continent and the oppression of the cultures there and the rise of Confucian government.
The unification of the current Geo-Political map of the Korean Peninsula should be entrenched in returning it's proud and sophisticated heritage to dominance as an impetus to bringing the both the North and South to common ground. The archeology alone of this entire peninsula is a magnificent venture into human developement toward sophisticated societies yet found anywhere else in the world or the orient for that matter.
For Right or Wrong the second World War changed the Geopolitical Landscape.
The above map is a complex arrangement of ethno-geographic divides of Europe alone. It is difficult to find an 'on line version' of the entire world as it existed Pre - World War II.
The discussion tonight is about the Korean Peninsula.
Japan's domination of Asia.
How the Korean War could have been averted.
Why it never was.
The 'impetus' to war that was 'created' rather than peacefully reunited.
Basically, some of the hatred of Russia by the current Neocon White House lies in it's role on the Korean Peninsula.
The discussion tonight is about the Korean Peninsula.
Japan's domination of Asia.
How the Korean War could have been averted.
Why it never was.
The 'impetus' to war that was 'created' rather than peacefully reunited.
Basically, some of the hatred of Russia by the current Neocon White House lies in it's role on the Korean Peninsula.
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