Media is drudging up apprehensions of a nuclear arms race in Asia as an outcome of N. Korea’s nuclear drills. Are we back to 1982 once more?
Since the dissolution of the USSR, spin doctors have had a real challenge on their hands – how to maintain a propaganda war of polarization to justify US aggression-mode. For years, its propaganda machine deceived us into believing the USSR was a superpower posing danger to the world. When the Iron Curtain was unveiled, we discovered the magnitude of its poverty and the daunting task of reconstruction and rehabilitation those countries needed.
For the US as a lone superpower there ever was/is, it’s an imperative to manufacture enemies like playthings. It has to invent an adversary equally fearful and strong. Otherwise, it shall be completely exposed as a bully.
It’s peanuts to demonize NK. There’s no love lost here. NK is a police-state with a deplorable human rights record. Images of soldiers marching crisply reminiscent of Stalin’s Russia magnify the country’s diabolical representation to the world at large.
NK is at the cusp of economic death, very similar to Japan’s situation before it went to war in the 1940s. Japan was choked off from its access to oil, among other things, pushing it to a “tipping point,” to borrow the buzzword of Philippine civil society denizens.
The economic blockade and international isolation imposed on NK has reached a “tipping point” – it is in dire straits and only its fascistic practices are able to contain a civil unrest. Its nuclear drills are acts of desperation to seize the world’s attention. It’s not a display of might for what real might does it have?
In analogy, NK is a madman taking his own son hostage because he lost his job and could no longer feed his children. Will the SWAT shoot him or work for an amicable negotiation?
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