Who Rejected Negotiations and Tore Up Treaties?
The U.S. tried to make the North Korean government collapse under the weight of permanent war tension along with economic pressures. Apart from the 50-year-old military stand-off at the 38th parallel, North Korea has threatened no one. But the intense U.S. policy of threat and economic isolation was intended to weaken North Korea. North Korea–a country of 22 million people–developed armed forces estimated to be about 1 million strong in order to face threats from the largest superpower in history. The DPRK developed into an impoverished revisionist country. (Revisionist means “phony communist”–where the government claims to be socialist but is in fact oppressive and state capitalist.) The U.S. still refuses to negotiate a treaty ending the Korean war (after 50 years of hostility!). It is widely reported in the world press that a key goal of North Korea remains to simply have the U.S. sign a peace treaty. Meanwhile, it is the U.S. that has been tearing up treaties–including the spec
