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Western Media Set Up North Korea For War
By Finian Cunningham
March 12, 2013 "Information Clearing House" - Western so-called news
media coverage of the escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula is
like watching a cross between a bad James Bond movie and a cheap horror
flick about flesh-eating zombies.
It would be funny if the danger of war was not so serious and imminent.
The disturbing direction of the Western media coverage is to set up
North Korea - a poor impoverished country - for an all-out military
attack by the world's nuclear superpower psychopath - the
United States.
Paradoxically, this danger is being incited by "news" corporations that
pompously claim to be free-thinking bastions of independent journalism,
when in reality they are nothing more than progenitors of the worst kind
of pulp fiction.
Kim Jong-un, the young leader of North Korea who took over from his late
father in 2011, is being cast as an insane villain whose Western media
persona resembles that of a putative Doctor Evil. His projected
character is fit for a role in an early 007 movie.
Days ago, Kim was reported as threatening "preemptive nuclear war"
against South Korea and its patron the United States. How evil!
Scarcely mentioned were the facts that Kim was forced into this
position of making a staunch defense of his country, under immense
pressure of relentless imperialist aggression. The Democratic People's
Republic of Korea has been slapped with yet more US-led sanctions aimed
at ostracizing the country from any international contact.
It's the equivalent of solitary confinement of a prisoner, subjected to
sensory deprivation. But this is torture of an entire nation with no
reprieve.
Yes, North Korea conducted an underground nuclear weapons test in
mid-February.
This was after the US tightened the thumb-screws with yet more
sanctions; and after years of Washington refusing to reciprocate with a
negotiated settlement to end more than six decades of crippling trade
embargoes in addition to the ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation
against North Korea following the 1950-53 war with its American-backed
Southern neighbor.
No other country has been threatened with nuclear Armageddon as often as
North Korea - and always by the US - for more than 60 years.
Western media have now highlighted the North Korean leader ordering his
massed troops to prepare for "wiping out" a South Korean island by
turning a craggy maritime outpost into "a sea of flames."
Do you see the innuendo here? Wiping out an island? Well, Kim must be an
insane megalomaniac, right?
The island in question is the disputed territory of Baengnyeong, which
is actually located off the North Korean mainland, but which the US
forced into South Korea's possession following the 1950-53 war. It has
been used since, provocatively, as a staging post for American
surveillance and forward planning for attack against North Korea.
No doubt the island will be used this week during the US perennial
war planning maneuvers that simulate the invasion of North Korea, but
which Washington euphemistically calls "defensive measures."
Befitting the caricature of arch-villain, photographs and footage have
abounded in Western media showing Kim Jong-un clad in black long
overcoat and black gloves, peering through binoculars apparently towards
South Korean and American forces across the Demilitarized Zone of the
38th parallel.
Just in case the Western public fail to pick up on the demonic Dr Evil
caricature, there is another sub-plot being instilled - the North Korean
flesh-eating zombies.
In recent weeks, there has been a rash of stories regurgitated by the
same Western media of outbreaks of cannibalism among the allegedly
starving people of North Korea. These stories of cannibalistic gore and
nihilism have not just been printed by the voyeuristic tabloid gutter
press. They have also been published prominently by supposed quality
outlets, such as Britain's Sunday Times and Independent, as well as one
of America's paper of record, The Washington Post.
Significantly, these macabre stories began circulating in Western media
outlets at the end of January - some two weeks before North Korea
conducted its underground nuclear explosion.
That suggests that the flesh-eating horror claims in North Korea are the
work of a Western intel psychological campaign aimed at adding
pejorative technicolor to the present crisis.
It makes for difficult reading. Not because of the alleged gruesome
details, but because these stories are so obviously concocted and
regurgitated in reflex manner by supposed news organizations. The horror
claims all come from one source: allegedly an undercover team of
journalists from an outfit called the Asia Press, based in Japan, who
were allegedly spirited secretly into North Korea and allegedly
interviewed various anonymous farmers and Communist party officials.
It's so bad you could not make it up.
Yet the Western media presses have gone into overdrive to pump out these
unconfirmed and unverifiable accounts of purported bloodcurdling
cannibalism among the North Korean population.
In one version published by Britain's Daily Mail, the headline runs,
"North Korean parents 'eating their own children' after being driven mad
by hunger in famine-hit pariah state."
Daily Mail readers are told of how starving adults are kidnapping and
murdering children. One man was allegedly executed by firing squad after
his wife found out that he had killed their young daughter and son
"while she was away on business;" when she returned to the starving
family homestead her husband greeted her with the welcome news that
"they had meat" to eat.
In another ghoulish tale, printed as serious news, an elderly man is
reported to have dug up the graves of his grandchildren and eaten their
rotten flesh.
The truly disturbing thing about these reports is that not only are they
sordid sensationalism passed off as credible reports by supposedly
serious news organizations, but worse is that this propaganda is
apparently believed by droves of the Western public who read or watch
such media. Check out some of the readers' comments below the stories
printed in the above mentioned media and you will find all sorts of
denunciations of North Korea and its "sick people."
But it's not the people of North Korea who are depraved: it's the
Western media and their gullible subscribers who indulge in this odious
character assassination of an entire nation.
The Western media coverage of North Korea recalls stories of babies
being ripped from hospital incubators by Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait, which
was a crucial tipping point for Western public opinion to support the
American-led war on Iraq in 1991. More than a decade later, the same
Western media ran scare stories of weapons of mass destruction that
paved the way of the American genocide in Iraq from 2003-2012.
The same Western propaganda press repeats endless claims about "sinister
Iranian nuclear ambitions" that serve to justify a criminal American-led
trade embargo on Iran that may result in a US/Israeli military attack on
the Islamic Republic.
The same Western propaganda press is now doing the same hatchet job on
North Korea. A nation of flesh-eating zombies led by an evil personality
cult who wants to blow up islands? "Yeah, go on Chuck, nuke those mothers!"
The Western public are being played like fools to go along with the most
depraved behaviour of military barbarism - a nuclear superpower itching
to destroy an impoverished nation that threatens no-one.
Truly, Western imperialist reality is more perverse and sick than the
Western fiction.
Finian Cunningham (born 1963) has written extensively on international
affairs, with articles published in several languages. He is a Master's
graduate in Agricultural Chemistry and worked as a scientific editor for
the Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, England, before pursuing a
career in journalism. He is also a musician and songwriter. The author
and media commentator was expelled from Bahrain in June 2011 for his
critical journalism in which he highlighted human rights violations by
the Western-backed regime.
This article was first published by Press TV
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