[Marxism] Post on N. Korea: it's the US's fault

[Andrew Pollack <acpollack2@xxxxxxxxx>]

They don't say it that explicitly, but what other conclusion can you
draw from the opening paragraphs?
(Snipping the article was made easier by the fact that everything 
after what's below is just details of N. Korea's alleged nukes.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/14/AR2006101401068.html
washingtonpost.com
N. Korean Nuclear Conflict Has Deep Roots
50 Years of Threats and Broken Pacts Culminate in Apparent Atomic Test

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, October 15, 2006; A16

Democrats and Republicans have been quick to use North Korea's apparent
nuclear test to benefit their own party in these final weeks of the
congressional campaign, but a review of history shows that both sides
have contributed to the current situation.

There is more than 50 years of history to Pyongyang's attempt to gain a
nuclear weapon, triggered in part by threats from Presidents Harry S.
Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower to end the Korean War.

In 1950, when a reporter asked Truman whether he would use atomic bombs
at a time when the war was going badly, the president said, "That
includes every weapon we have."

Three years later, Eisenhower made a veiled threat, saying he would
"remove all restraints in our use of weapons" if the North Korean
government did not negotiate in good faith an ending to that bloody war.

In 1957, the United States placed nuclear-tipped Matador missiles in
South Korea, to be followed in later years, under both Republican and
Democratic administrations, by nuclear artillery, most of which was
placed within miles of the demilitarized zone.

It was not until President Jimmy Carter's administration, in the late
1970s, that the first steps were taken to remove some of the hundreds
of nuclear weapons that the United States maintained in South Korea, a
process that was not completed until 1991, under the first Bush
administration.

It is against that background that the North Korean nuclear program
developed.



                
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