Perhaps if any child grows up in any culture being fed lies and too much food, that child has a chance to grow up tubby, ignorant, and with iffy, unstable mental health, with little compassion or ability to see much reality.
Unfortunately Kim Jong Un, autocrat of North Korea, seems to be that child. Perhaps he is so desperate to be thought an adult that he’s going to shake his missiles at the USA, which does not like being threatened. It would be good to treat him like the barely-more-than-a-baby he is, and not retaliate, but he has the power to hurt people, all the Asians near North Korea–South Korea and Japan being the ones particularly under threat–and Americans at nearby bases, plus anyone else who incurs his juvenile wrath.
Kim and his father and grandfather all attended more to building their war machines than feeding their people. Hence the widespread starvation among North Koreans. Instead of ample good food, North Koreans have been fed a steady died of Hate the USA.
Of course, when the US divided North from South Korea and American and Soviet negotiations failed to put Korea together again, we, the food-rich USA, helped set this up. South Korea, in the division, received far more arable land than North Korea did. But can you imagine how the USA and other countries would be happy to help if North Korea would stop being the Asian bully?
For the story of how this division came about, see The Jade Locket and the Red Star, by Joan Uda, ebook on Amazon.com.
BELOW: Generals Archibald Arnold and John Hodge saluting in front row of dignitaries during US-USSR negotiations, March 1946. Personal collection. Archibald Arnold was my father’s CO. General Hodge was commander of American forces in Korea.
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