South Korea Drills to ‘Punish the Enemy’

(South Korea is running drills on “punishing the enemy” for sneak attacks, ie: acts of terrorism (pending false flag attacks to be staged inside South Korea and blamed on the North)) by Jason Ditz, AntiWar Is South Korea deliberately trying to start a war with the North? It seems far-fetched on the surface, but everyone [...]

False Flag Terror Coming to South Korea?

by Scott Creighton After failing to provoke North Korea into retaliating for South Korea’s highly provocative live-fire drills in the disputed waters in the Yellow Sea this past Sunday, South Korean officials have claimed that the North’s remarkable show of restraint was simply “political posturing”, and now they fully expect large-scale “terrorist” attacks on their own civilian population centers to be [...]

US and China in a diplomatic standoff over North Korea

by John Chan, WSWS While repeatedly demanding that China intervene to contain North Korea, Washington and its allies have rebuffed China’s diplomatic efforts to calm the Korean confrontation. Last Sunday, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton phoned Chinese State Councilor Dai to urge Beijing to send what the State Department called “a strong message” that [...]

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From Potential Peace to The Brink of War – President Peace Prize Strikes Again

by Scott Creighton (UPDATE: South Korea “accidentally” fired an artillery round and hit the south side of the DMZ. (report at the end of the article)) (UPDATE 2: Pretty soon anything goes in the propaganda wars as journalists have been “asked’ to leave Yeonpyeong Island. Everything we hear about what happens will be from “unnamed [...]

In the Face of WWIII, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Goes on THE VIEW

by Scott Creighton In case you needed more proof that this entire North Korea “crisis’ was nothing more than a staged production for the Propaganda Ministry, believe it or not, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS), by law the highest ranking military officer in the United States armed forces “and the principal [...]

Those Two Dead “Civilians”? Were Military Contractors Killed on the Marine Base… and “Burned Beyond Recognition”

Two civilians found dead on S. Korean island shelled by N. Korea from Yonhap News Agency Two civilians were found dead Wednesday on a front-line South Korean island devastated by a North Korean artillery attack, the first civilian deaths recorded from the bombing, the coast guard said. Marines and police found the bodies at a [...]

South Korean defense minister resigns

from CBC News South Korea’s defense minister tendered his resignation Thursday, just two days after a North Korea artillery attack killed four people on the small island of Yeonpyeong. Yim Tae-hee, the chief of staff of South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, said the resignation of Kim Tae-young was accepted. A replacement was to be named [...]

Blocking Out the Sun: How the Neoliberals Crushed the Latest Chances for Peace in Korea

We may never know how close we were to peace on the Korean peninsula by Scott Creighton As is usually the case in international affairs involving those nations lovingly deemed “The Axis of Evil”, the people of this country (what used to be lovingly called the United States of America, back when we had an [...]

Korean Conundrum: Is There a Way Out?

Latest incident a provocation – but by whom? by Justin Raimondo, AntiWar Initial reports were unequivocal: those crazy North Koreans had once again broken the longstanding ceasefire and attacked the South, this time at Yeonpyeong Island, shelling civilian quarters, and killing two South Korean marines. A few hours later, however, a more nuanced story came [...]

Video: South Korea Admits it Fired First Artillery Rounds that Provoked North Korean Response

by Scott Creighton Russia Today is reporting that the South Koreans have admitted they fired artillery rounds into North Korean territory which has in fact started this entire conflict. This is backed up by early reports from the Times and Business Insider (reported by this site as well earlier this morning) The official North Korean [...]

Video:”Artillery Fire” (?) in South Korean Town on Yeonpyeong Island

by Scott Creighton The volume on this is turned WAY UP.. so turn your speakers nearly off… I have to wonder about this. This explosion doesn’t look like an artillery round going off. The explosion is almost latitudinal, horizontal, to the ground. Also, later in the video there doesn’t appear to be any damage to [...]

North Korea Offers to Surrender Nuclear Fuel So Hillary Starts a War

(Developing story) by Scott Creighton Just last week, the North Koreans met with a contingent of US experts and offered to transfer ALL of their nuclear fuel rods to a third party country for enrichment… and today, war breaks out between North and South Korea. I guess Hillary couldn’t bare to lose her pretext for [...]