And the Winner of the New Korean “Crisis!” Is…. Lockheed Martin

by Scott Creighton

In May of this year, Adam Johnson of FAIR wrote about how Lockheed Martin was pushing all sorts of propaganda in order to get South Korea’s new government to buy more of their Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile systems. It’s a billion dollar product of theirs they wanted to see installed in the country that was trying to mend ties with their neighbors to the north.

Last month on Aug. the 10th, I wrote:

The Latest North Korean “Crisis” – Brought to you by your friends at Lockheed Martin “We’re CRUSHING Peace for Profit”

In that article I speculated that the motive behind the lies and fear-mongering and propaganda about the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) was all about forcing the new president of South Korea to back away from his plans to improve relationships with the north and to get him to agree to purchase more THAAD systems from our military industrial complex (MIC).

Of course, all the crazy talk coming from the White House about dropping fire at little Asian people in North Korea, though it might be a little insensitive coming around the anniversary of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 6 and Aug 9 respectively), it has been HIGHLY PROFITABLE for… wait for it… Lockheed Martin.

• Major defense stocks surge to all-time highs after Trump’s tough …
• Lockheed Martin shares hit a fresh all-time high on Wednesday …
• N. Korea crisis spurs surge in global missile defense requests to …

Yep. Look at that. Turning a potential loss in profits into a win-win-win for the boys of war. Can’t beat that with a dead mother’s burnt arm, can you?

You see, the new president of South Korea rejected a deal the corrupt exiting president made with our MIC as she was slinking out the door, forced out for being on the take by the way. The new president halted the purchase order and suddenly… PRESTO… life or death threats from ebil “North Korea” were coming fast and furious… for no apparent reason.

The lying generals over there in South Korea were steadily trying their best to help our propaganda machine gin up some terror for the South Korean people and our complicit media (as well as a couple fake “alternative” websites) jumped on board the Lockheed sales campaign as well.

And wouldn’t you know it:

Seoul announced the deployment of four additional US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile systems in North Gyeongsang Province following the recent nuclear test by Pyongyang, local media reported Wednesday.

The THAAD systems will be deployed on Thursday at a new base in Seongju, 300 kilometers (186 miles) from Seoul, the Yonhap agency reported, citing the Ministry of National Defense. Sputnik International

Just yesterday Julian Assange chimed in like Captain Hindsight.

“South Korea is China’s Cuba. By provoking conflict with the North, US is creating cover to place THAAD etc. on China’s border…”

Of course, on Aug the 10th, I was already all over it back when it mattered.

On Aug. 6 of this year, right before this latest round of destabilization rhetoric began, a Rand Corp warmonger had an Op-Ed published on one of South Korea’s complicit media sites telling the new president he better get with the program and let Lockheed Martin stick another billion dollar THAAD system on that golf course.

Just yesterday the CIA’s Washington Post published some more bullshit about Un’s “miniaturized nuclear warheads” brought to you by secret “intelligence” assets via their “secret assessment study” based on “secret evidence”

We now know Lockheed-Martin got what they wanted. They got to sell 4 of their systems as opposed to just the one the previous corrupt president bought as she was being ushered out the door.

Unlike Captain Hindsight, I predicted as much when this whole thing kicked off:

Lockheed Martin is going to get their money for their glorious rocket system regardless. And they’re going to trample on the hopes of a new lasting peace in Korea in the process. Cus we all know there really is no peace dividend for the for-profit war industry.

You might ask “why Scott? Why would the new president cave in and buy 4 of these damn useless things now, after everything that happened?” and that would be a good question.

Perhaps you might think of it like this:

The new president understood that these ghouls were NOT GOING TO STOP THE ESCALATION until they GOT WHAT THEY WANTED and he figured he better grit his teeth and buy the damn things BEFORE THEY LAUNCHED THE FALSE FLAG PART OF THEIR OPERATION.

You might think of it that way. Corporate terrorism waged by a complicit government (U.S.) and their assets in the military (ours and South Korea’s)

You might think of it that way. Or maybe you’re a coincidence theorist and you figure Kim Jung-un just HAPPENED to do all this right at a time when Lockheed-Martin was going to be on the hook for a couple THAAD systems no one else wanted.

Now that the MIC got their pound of flesh, I anticipate a calming of relations on the Korean peninsula. Russia and China are pissed off, but, Big Business doesn’t care so why should anyone else?

But that’s how it goes in ‘Merika! What Big Business wants, Big Business gets. Even if they have to take two nations to the brink of war to get it.

Gee, I hope we can keep running our government like a business even more cus we all know, business is good. Gubmint bad. Right?