Is Americanization Key to Normalization of Relations?

  Perception-framing and its Repercussions: The Soon-to-be-extinct Art of Americanization and Demonization in the Information Era   This week the United States made unprecedented steps towards rapprochement with Iran. The US also maintained its friendship with…

Let Us End the War and Bring Peace in Korea

President Truman said at the Peace Conference with Japan in San Francisco in Sept. 1951 that “It is a treaty that will work. It does not contain the seeds of another war. It is a…

Threat of Nuclear War: DPRK or the US?

Who is the Threat? North Korea or the United States? While the Western media portrays North Korea’s nuclear weapons program as a threat to Global Security, it fails to acknowledge that the US has being threatening North Korea with a nuclear attack for more than half a century. On July 27, 2013, Armistice Day, Koreans in the North and the South will be commemorating the end of the Korean war (1950-53). Unknown to the broader public, the US had envisaged the use of nuclear weapons against North Korea at the very outset of the Korean War in 1950. In the immediate wake of the war, the US deployed nuclear weapons in South Korea for use on a pre-emptive basis against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in violation of the July 1953 Armistice Agreement.