Beware the US version of the truth :- North Korea, Iran, ...

Many may not know why Japan suddenly attacked the US at Pearl Harbour and got involved in World War II?

The reason was simply because of US initiated actions - sanctions ...and seeking to cut Japan's fuel supply...

USA leading an international movement to isolate Japan economically and thus force them to withdraw from China. Primarily the USA plan was to cut off credit to the Japanese which would prevent them from being able to purchase petroleum. Japan received petroleum (an absolutely vital economic and military commodity, then as it is now) from three sources: The USA, Dutch east indies (Indonesia) and Burma (British controlled in the 1940's). The USA inspired movement included all three sources.

Japan could/would not accept a withdrawal from the Chinese war and instead began planning a first strike against the USA navy. Eliminating or reducing the USA naval forces in the Pacific would make the Japanese navy paramount, and thus Japan would be able to defeat the economic consequences of the USA ultimatum. After eliminating the USA navy Japan planned to occupy the Dutch East Indies and Burma, thus gaining control of enough oil to run their military and economy.

The strike on Pearl Harbor did exactly as hoped by the Japanese. The USA fleet was crippled. The Dutch lacked forces to repel the Japanese. The British navy (as ordered by Churchill) sent forces to defend their areas but these were totally inadequate for the job and were decimated quickly. Japan occupied all the oil producing areas and settled down to a war of attrition against the USA, which they hoped would wear down the USA politically and enable them to keep their conquests.

Now, I wonder about the actions of North Korea....and again, this may really be an act of a desparate party...

Does the US want the Korean 'problem' to be resolved? I think not - for whenever things are OK, the US does something to escalate the problem...

Why? Maybe, it is good to de-stabilize that region - hence North Korea's neighbours - who are economic and possibly political threats to the USA. We are, of course talking about China, Japan and South Korea...

Similarly, that whole war against Iraq, Afghanistan, etc - was a means of destabilizing the EU. Just before that 'Iraq War', there was talk among many nations about changing their international trading currency from the US Dollar to the Euro...Of course, UK jumped in with the US, because the once 'leader' of the European Community of Nations was no more.

The risk of war on the Korean peninsula remains high, and the U.S. government is raising it higher by opening an economic front. In September 2005, one day after regional negotiations produced an agreement with the potential to defuse North Korean-U.S. tensions, the U.S. government charged North Korea with counterfeiting $100 bills. Calling this alleged North Korean effort a direct attack on U.S. sovereignty and technically an act of war, Washington imposed an ever-tightening and ever-widening web of financial restrictions on the country. This economic campaign, which broadened and intensified after Pyongyang's missile launches in July and nuclear test in October 2006, is the latest attempt to isolate and weaken the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). The charges fit a pattern of actions that have repeatedly disrupted promising movements toward peace on the Korean peninsula. In the latest round of Six- Party Talks, held in December, the restrictions proved to be the biggest obstacle in the path of reaching an agreement. Tensions generated by the restrictions are exacerbating tensions in East Asia and placing heavy additional pressures on Koreans, especially in the North. Washington's economic gambit, launched in 2005 and strengthened by UN sanctions in 2006, raises questions of timing, threat escalation, morality, and efficacy. With no further multilateral talks currently planned, the hard-line economic approach toward North Korea has been a counterproductive detour from the pressing issues of denuclearization and diplomatic normalization. The restrictions and sanctions, far from bringing North Korea back to the negotiating table, have become instead the main stumbling block in the negotiations. Presented as an alternative to military approaches to regime change, the economic campaign proved counterproductive when the DPRK responded with its missile and nuclear tests. Finally, this economic approach undermines North Korean efforts at reforms and opening, the very process that many argue needs to be supported on moral, as well as strategic, grounds. - Sanctions and the Road to War in Korea,By Martin Hart-Landsberg and John Feffer, 18/1/2007

Similarly, the sudden new 'demonizing' now of Iran by the US (and also Israel)...{After all, Iraq and Afghanistan have been colonized...Palestine is in control...}

US has always wanted every nation to be their cronnies, and always wanted pro-US persons to be in government. We have seen US interference in Latin America...and the rest of the world. If a country is independent and not pro-US, then they will be isolated and persecuted, and one such country has been Cuba...and now maybe Venezuela. (In Latin America, the US cronies are losing out to new leaders who are stronger and more independent.)

Realize that media and sources of information are controlled by the US - and hence the truth that we get many a time is the truth according to the US (and its cronies), and hence Malaysians, including the media here, must be more hard-working to get to the truth. Report the viewpoints of both sides...

US is smart - they pressure...and pressure....and pressure until you 'explode' and then blame you.

North Korea - is yet another Asian country that 'defeated' US, just like Vietnam....and so, it may also 'ego' that may be operating here...

Just a few years ago, there was much hope for unification of both Koreas - and serious analysis may show that it was US that broke down this attempt.