Obama Provoking N. Korea Just As FDR Provoked Japan

• U.S. stirs up hornet’s nest to ensure military presence in region

By The Staff at AFP

When North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-il died from a heart attack in December 2011 and was replaced by his 28-year-old youngest son Kim Jong-un, tensions rose in South Korea and the United States, and troops were put on high alert. The mainstream media is now portraying Kim Jong-un as a spoiled kid, playing with matches. He has nukes and seeks to be taken seriously by threatening to attack the U.S. and S. Korea, apparently for no reason.

The Pentagon, we are told, has even canceled military exercises in S. Korea in order not to provoke this enfant terrible. But is there a behind-the-scenes game being played?

Since the end of the Korean War 60 years ago, which divided North and South Korea and left millions of Koreans dead, N. Korea’s position has been consistent. Officials there want a treaty to officially end the Korean War. They want the reunification of Korea, the end of U.S. occupation of S. Korea and a discontinuation of annual month-long U.S.-S. Korean war games. They want direct talks with Washington to resolve these issues, but Washington has refused all of the above.

Instead, the U.S. has taken a hard line against N. Korea over the years. Crippling sanctions have been imposed on the nation, especially since 2006, when it detonated its first nuclear bomb.

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