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The military madness of North Korea

there it is: a nation that starves its people to feed its military spouting a philosophy of friendship and cooperation.

The despairing result of all this is that it is the people who suffer, not the leaders. It’s not enough that famines devastate the population, as North Korea endured in the nineties and from which it has not recovered, but that military madness should overwhelm all other considerations.

Paranoid state fuels military madness SMH, April 27, 2012 ‘The Government of the Republic promotes friendship and cooperation with the various countries of the world. It makes every effort in unity with all the peace-loving peoples of the world to … reduce armaments, nuclear armaments in particular, thereby meeting the desire of human beings to live in a world, free from nuclear weapons.’ –  The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea website
‘Once the above-said special actions kick off, they will reduce all the rat-like groups and the bases for provocations to ashes in three or four minutes, in much shorter time, by unprecedented peculiar means and methods of our own style’.  –  The Korean People’s Army Command
It would be lunacy, rib-chuckling idiocy, if it were not so serious.
Both statements are the creation of North Korea. Without knowing the
author of the first, you could take it as the statement of a nation
part naif, part hopeless idealist, maybe a recluse from the world, a
Bhutan with a national happiness index switched on to a view of the
unknown outside world…. it’s breathtakingly hypocritical. And yet,
there it is: a nation that starves its people to feed its military spouting a philosophy of friendship and cooperation.
The second statement is, in its ridiculous way, at least honest. It
was made this week by the “special operation action group” of the
Korean People’s Army’s Supreme Command……
One of the key planks of North Korea’s massive military complex (which
according to the US State Department has one of the largest armies in
the world with about 1.2 million personnel actively deployed) is its
unbending paranoia. What it doesn’t see is that if it did not strike a
belligerent posture and act as a threat then it wouldn’t be treated as
one…..
The despairing result of all this is that it is the people who suffer, not the leaders. It’s not enough that famines devastate the population, as North Korea endured in the nineties and from which it has not recovered, but that military madness should overwhelm all other considerations.
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/blogs/wokkapedia/paranoid-state-fuels-military-madness-20120426-1xmt1.html#ixzz1tNTNsYm3

April 28, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | North Korea, weapons and war