The Very Normal Face of North Korea—the “Inscrutable Kingdom”

North Korea –
FACES AND LANDSCAPES
Photo reportage by André Vltchek

Public housing in Pyongyang. How many American poor would be happy to live like that?

Prefatory note by the editor:

We are happy to be able to present the work of our new special correspondent Andre Vltchek, a man who has traveled the world seeking the stories, the facts, and the images that people everywhere need to form reliable opinions about reality. Especially in matters concerning war and peace, the former the greatest crime that leaders and politicians can commit, the latter the greatest good that humanity can aspire to. But it must be a peace grounded in justice. For only justice guarantees a lasting peace. 

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The image of North Korea (formally the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) has been maliciously distorted by the West for generations, a deformation that began even before WW II had ended, founded in the relentless and all-consuming anticommunism that fuels policy and mass communications in all capitalist nations, and particularly in the United States.  The  of this propaganda war is that North Korea stands today as one of the worst understood and most demonized nations on earth, and like any other nation not submitting to the American empire’s commands, a pariah subject to devastating attacks at the whim and convenience of the cabals in Washington.

North Korea’s plight largely a product of foreign meddling

Yet understanding North Korea is not that difficult. All that is needed is a modicum of empathetic imagination, decencyl, and compassion leavened with a bit of solid historical knowledge, qualities unfortunately sorely lacking in US culture.

North Korea lost close to thirty percent of its population as a result of US-led bombings in the 1950s. US military sources confirm that 20 percent of North Korea’s  (1950s) population was killed off over a three-year period of intensive bombings.

“After destroying North Korea’s 78 cities and thousands of her villages, and killing countless numbers of her civilians, [General] LeMay remarked, “[In just] over a period of three years or so we killed off – what – twenty percent of the population.”  [See also “An Inconvenient Truth: The Genocidal Toll Inflicted on Koreans by The United States.“]

—P. Greanville

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