Our government and media have ignored the threat posed to our national security by North Korea. Whether North Korea is working in conjunction with China is only speculation at this point but their “breakthroughs” in metallurgy, nuclear proliferation and cyber attacks in the United States and South Korea from a country on the edge of starvation make no sense. Especially in light of closing all universities while students were sent to farms, factories and construction sites. Although Europe appeased Hitler’s attacks to maintain “peace”, the world is definitely following in Chamberlain’s footsteps in appeasing this regime. The following excerpt is from the Foreign Policy Association concerning a UN report that 23 million North Koreans are starving:
“Let them eat grass”
Two weeks ago the European Union announced that it intends to provide $14.5 million in emergency food aid to North Korea. According to the statement released by the EU, after visiting North Korea in June, monitors judged the situation to be: “Increasingly desperate and extreme measures are being taken by the hard-hit North Koreans, including the widespread consumption of grass.”
While there is no question that the conditions of North Korean people are dire, it is questionable whether EU aid will benefit the citizens of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the long term. North Koreans need a state that prioritizes the basic needs of its people over its military ambitions. By continuing to provide aid, the EU is just encouraging and enabling poor governance—the cause of food insecurity in the first place.
The behavior of both North Korea and the EU is all too familiar. Up to fifty percent of the aid provided to North Korea in the past is believed to have gone towards feeding the DPRK’s military and fattening the pockets of government elites. Western powers are equally responsible for the cycle of starvation in North Korea. The US provided food and fuel to North Korea in exchange for denuclearization, when the DPRK had already agreed to cease and dismantle any nuclear projects. There is no evidence that the EU’s aid package is anything but “buy[ing] the same horse twice” in the words of former Secretary Gates. The World Food Program will disperse the EU’s aid, which was responsible for negotiating and monitoring the distribution of the majority of aid in the past. North Korean supply chains will still be used to deliver the aid and the WFP will merely monitor, observe, and audit.
The relationship between North Korea and Iran is detailed below. The implications for Israel and our Middle East military bases are clear. Reports are now starting to circulate that preemptive strikes in Iran will be carried out in the upcoming months by Israel. Any disruption from the flow of oil through the Straits of Hormuz will cause a spike in the price of oil on the world market. This could be the final trigger in collapsing our economy.
David DeGerolamo
North Korea and Iran ‘jointly working on building nuclear missile’, report claims
North Korea and Iran are jointly working on weapons programmes designed to build a long-range missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, a leading British security think tank has said. According to a study by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), North Korea’s weapons programmes are now benefiting from technology from Iran.
In return, Pyongyang is supplying technology to Iran’s uranium enrichment programme that would allow it to increase its output. The disclosure marks a disturbing escalation in the race for nuclear weapons technology by the two states which are seen to present the biggest threat to global security.
Mark Fitzpatrick, the IISS expert on weapons proliferation, said North Korea possessed a technological edge over Iran in making nuclear equipment. It was capable of manufacturing high strength steel that Iran has been unable to manufacture. Iran has instead relied on carbon fibre materials that are less reliable.
“What previously had been a one way flow of North Korean nuclear sales to Iran is now going two ways,” he said. “North Korea may be self-sufficient in its uranium programme and there are some areas where Iran can’t produce equipment that North Korea has the capacity to produce.”
