U.S. Feeds North
Korea, So It Can Fight ... the U.S.
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April 26, 2002 SEOUL, South Korea Thanks to U.S.
aid, starving North Korea is spending even more money on its 1.1-million-strong
army to fight the United States.
In a show of civilian support for the military, tens of thousands of
students, workers and farmers joined a massive military parade Thursday in
central Pyongyang to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the armed
forces.
Pyongyang's state-run newspaper said all citizens in the communist regime
would join hands with army troops to make the so-called People's Army even
bigger to ward off what it described as threats from the "U.S. warmongers" who,
it claims, have tried to provoke a nuclear war with North Korea.
Rodong Sinmun, the mouthpiece of the dictatorship's ruling Workers' Party,
cited the Pentagon's recent nuclear posture review that described contingency
plans for using nuclear arms against North Korea as a sign that the United
States was ready to conduct nuclear attack.
"Our country is turning into the main target of U.S. imperialists' military
plot and the fiercest battlefield for our military confrontations with the U.S.
imperialists," it said.
The newspaper called for all-out national efforts to expand North Korea's
military power even more.
"The people should support and assist the army, and the army and the people
should defend the sovereignty of the nation," Rodong Sinmun said.
Feeding the Mouth That Bites Us
And how is the poverty-stricken failure of communism able to afford to rattle
its sabers at America? Because America keeps abetting it!
President Bush, continuing the astonishing policies of the Clinton
administration, has actually boasted that this enemy nation is on the U.S. dole.
And this is the same nation he described as part of the "axis of evil."
"I
can't tell you how sorry I feel for the North Korean people," Bush said in
February on a visit to South Korea. "My heart breaks for people who live in a
society that is not free, and where there is tremendous starvation."
Bush said that if the regime were not pouring the country's resources into
weapons, it could feed its people. But of course, why should North Korea fulfill
its responsibilities if the U.S. will?
North Korea, with a population of 22 million, has an armed force of 1.1
million, the world's fifth largest.
The regime has asked for all North Koreans to uphold "military-first
politics" created by Kim Jong Il, who rules in the capacity of the top military
official.
"Our citizens have to be unconditional adherent and stanch supporters of the
army-first thought, a treasured sword for complete triumph in the struggles to
accomplish the cause of self-reliance," Rodong Sinmun said.
'Rare Strategy' Indeed
Kim has led "a war minus gun reports against the imperialists to a victory
with steel-strong will, matchless courage and rare strategy to save the fates of
the country and the nation," it said.
Kim reviewed the military parade held at the Kimilsung Square crowded with
government officials and citizens, the North's television footage showed. Taking
part were members of "the worker-peasant red guard and the young red guard," as
well as students of "revolutionary schools and military academies," the official
Korean Central TV said.
In a statement at the ceremony, People's Armed Forces Minister Kim Il Chol
pledged "unconditional" loyalty to Kim Jong Il and vowed to defend the country
from what he claimed was a U.S. scheme to stifle it with force.
"It is our army's tradition to respond to any strong action with stronger
action, and control fire with fire," Kim was quoted as saying.
Analysts in Seoul said the North's campaign was a move to intensify control
over the population that is suffering from food shortages.
"North Korea's mobilization of many civilians for the military function is
largely aimed at stressing the military-first policy as well as demonstrating
its military capabilities," said Paek Seung-ju, a defense analyst.
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