GARLAND NIXON—The SK people had deposed US-puppet dictator Syngman Rhee in a massive popular uprising in April of 1960. Not long after the popular uprising, Park Chung Hee launched a military coup of the elected civilian government, taking power with 20 armed divisions and forcing the resignation of the civilian government. The leader of the army met with JFK on May 24th, and by June, the US had fully approved the coup. NK was worried Park would attack NK (he had spent the whole half of his early career trying to hunt down guerrilla leader Kim Il Sung in Manchuria for the Japanese imperial army. NK was worried about this, anticipated a new war by SK, and signed treaties of mutual aid with both the USSR and China by July of 1961.
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KARL SANCHEZ-[Quoting V. Putin]±Despite external pressure, our countries are successfully developing on a sovereign and independent basis, and have provided and will continue to provide full support to each other as true friends and good neighbors.
We will also continue to counteract the very practice of sanctions strangulation as a tool that the West is used to using in order to preserve its hegemony in politics, economy and other spheres. In this context, I would like to note that the indefinite restrictive regime of the UN Security Council against the DPRK, inspired by the United States and its allies, should be reviewed.
The propaganda cliches repeated by Westerners are no longer able to disguise their aggressive geopolitical intentions, including in the North-East Asian region. Our assessments of the root causes of the escalation of military-political tensions coincide. This is the confrontational policy of the United States to expand its military infrastructure in the sub-region, which is accompanied by a significant increase in the scale and intensity of various military exercises involving the Republic of Korea and Japan.
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EDITOR—Following the bilateral negotiations, Putin and Kim signed a Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, designed to “lay the groundwork” for future bilateral relations in all spheres, including cultural and tourist ties, trade, economic relations and security.
The agreement also includes a pledge by Russia and the DPRK to assist each other in case of foreign aggression, as both leaders decried attempts by the US and its satellites to destabilize the situation in Southeast Asia.
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DRAGO BOSNIC—America’s futile attempts to field a working hypersonic weapon demonstrate just how far behind in missile tech the rogue superpower has fallen. While it was busy with futile attempts to tarnish the reputation of Russian hypersonic missiles, the rest of the world kept doing its homework and the effort is finally paying off. Namely, on April 2, North Korea conducted the first test launch of an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) with a hypersonic warhead. While it’s not entirely clear what sort of weapon is on top of the missile, it looks to be a glide vehicle (HGV). Dubbed the “Hwasong-16B” in most military sources, the missile is expected to complement the rapidly growing arsenal of other North Korean strategic weapons such as the “Hwasong-10” and “Hwasong-12” that entered service in previous years.
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JEFF J. BROWN—”The ROK Right-wing, as I said, is descended from people who collaborated with the Japanese in the colonial occupation and benefitted from Japan’s annexation of Korea.
The ROK’s wealthy elite have simply switched one master for another. They worship big powers and hate their own countrymen. They hate Korea and love Japan and America. They want ROK to be subordinated to Japan and USA forever because they benefit from such a state…”
