The USA has been outside this dialogue. It is exclusive to countries that believe the USA is a threat to their people, nations and power. Chavez gave President Obama about the problems the USA has caused. This is still a viable dialogue. It appears to me Un intends to carry out the dialogue into a reality.
FRANK LÓPEZ BALLESTEROS | EL UNIVERSAL
Tuesday December 20, 2011 11:30 AM
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez sent condolences to North Korean authorities expressing the "most sincere sorrow" for the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il, on behalf of "all Venezuelans," after learning about the death of his "comrade."
President Chávez said that he has full confidence that North Koreans will move "toward a prosperous and peaceful future," according to a Venezuelan foreign ministry statement.
In the text, the government expressed its willingness to "keep walking along with sovereign nations for the auto-determination of countries and world peace."
Trade between Caracas and Pyongyang significantly increased when President Chávez took office in 1999, but it has dwindled since 2007, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
The unsuccessful preservation of Chavez body was a threat to the survival of his ideology. The current aggressive nature of North Korea is a matter of obtaining the stature in the world previous leaders spoke of, but, never sought to achieve. Albeit, the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Un is leading more than his people. He is leading the Third World including Iran. I believe he is very serious for more reasons than everyone wants to recognize. The USA and Europe think the world changed with the deaths of it's leaders. I don't think so.
To Kim Jong Il, Chavez and Latin Americans leaders it was more or less politics. It was breathing fire at the USA dragon. I believe the generation that followed them seek to achieve the dream setting aside rhetoric from outcomes.
President Chávez said that he has full confidence that North Koreans will move "toward a prosperous and peaceful future," according to a Venezuelan foreign ministry statement.
In the text, the government expressed its willingness to "keep walking along with sovereign nations for the auto-determination of countries and world peace."
Trade between Caracas and Pyongyang significantly increased when President Chávez took office in 1999, but it has dwindled since 2007, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE).
The unsuccessful preservation of Chavez body was a threat to the survival of his ideology. The current aggressive nature of North Korea is a matter of obtaining the stature in the world previous leaders spoke of, but, never sought to achieve. Albeit, the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Un is leading more than his people. He is leading the Third World including Iran. I believe he is very serious for more reasons than everyone wants to recognize. The USA and Europe think the world changed with the deaths of it's leaders. I don't think so.
To Kim Jong Il, Chavez and Latin Americans leaders it was more or less politics. It was breathing fire at the USA dragon. I believe the generation that followed them seek to achieve the dream setting aside rhetoric from outcomes.
by Jack Apollo George,
...In consequence, (click here) North Korea severed all ties with South Korea, including scrapping all prior peace talks. Kim Jong-Un thus seems to be even more volatile than his predecessors. While on the face of it, this situation is extremely worrying, it demonstrates an increased insecurity and will only augment North Korea’s political isolation.
There are very few states that stand up to Western powers, but those that do have always tended to do so along one of two paths. One way is to combat imperialism ideologically and politically through more integrating economic policies that focus on welfare and the public good rather than simple and senile quests for profits and nothing else.
These socialist principles are noble but are suffocated by the global market and can rarely lift off effectively. Venezuela, along with its close partner in Cuba, were some of the few states who could function with a true socialist model without sacrificing too much. It has to be noted that much of Venezuela’s ability to instigate such policies was due to the country’s notable oil wealth.
An alternative route to fighting the West is through an extremist ideology coupled with quasi-totalitarian state control and the dissuasive weight of military aggression. North Korea and Iran are probably the best contemporary examples of this path. That said, Iran has done nothing terrible of late; in fact, it has seemingly followed some UN regulations, converting all recorded uranium production into innocent domestic energy. Meanwhile, North Korea’s recent outburst of ridicule-worthy rhetoric follows no logic. The UN sanctions mean that North Korea is effectively driving itself to economic suicide, and any real physical attack would have consequences just as self-destructive.
With Latin America’s great post-Bolivarian leader dead and North Korea’s violent rhetoric verging on the suicidal, it seems that there is a void in coherent anti-U.S. political discourse. While it is undoubtedly a good thing that violent states have become isolated, it is a danger to have the whole world on the same route of absolute capitalist truth....
