MANK: Make America North Korea

Fascism and communism are both left wing concepts.  They are two sides of the same coin. Socialism!

By Rich Kozlovich

The North Korean tyrants have been in power for three generations, and like all tyrants they want their people to be ignorant and subservient.  And like all tyrants, they’ve had a history of misappropriation of funds, food and a total disregard for human life.

Stalin deliberately starved tens of millions of his citizens to death for resisting collectivization of their farms. And after collectivization occurred, he starved even more due to incompetence and the idiotic Marxist ideology.  All because of one man with total and complete power to decide life and death. Stalin!

China deliberately starved to death over 30 million Chinese because Mao needed capital to buy arms, so he sold the food they needed just to survive.  Mao felt that may just be the beginning, and it was. All due to the actions of one man who held absolute power to decide life and death.   Mao!

Castro overthrew a government where in 1957 before the revolution Cuba had an economy and social structure where:

"the Cuban social structure is a large middle class," the Geneva-based International Labor Organization said in a 1957 report. "Cuban workers are more unionized (proportional to the population) than U.S. workers. The average wage for an 8 hour day in Cuba in 1957 is higher than for workers in Belgium, Denmark, France and Germany. Cuban labor receives 66.6%. In the U.S. the figure is 70%, in Switzerland 64%. 44% of Cubans are covered by Social legislation, a higher percentage than in the U.S."......."Remember, this is before the revolution!"

He died a tyrant!  A murderous monster who left a one time economically sound beautiful country in shambles. All because one man had the power to decide life and death.  Fidel Castro!

What happened when communists took over in Cambodia was a human disaster of inhuman proportions. What's going on in Venezuela is absolutely criminal, and almost as inhuman.   

 

North Korean is no different!  More than 40% of North Koreans are undernourished and make no mistake about this. Often times whether or not they get needed food is based on the intensity of their loyalty to their communist tyrants. 

 

During a period of flooding and famine in the 1990’s up to 2 million people died, ten percent of their population. Moscow and Beijing stopped funding them and they found themselves in very real economic straits, even playing around with the value of their currency, which always has been a disaster for the common people. 

The long term impact for children with improper nutrition is really serious. If during these important development years children are malnourished it will impact them physically and mentally for the rest of their lives.  That will impact their societal structure negatively for decades.  The averge size of North Koreans is noticably smaller than their Southern cousins.  "It seems that this height statistic reveals a tragic fact - that as South Koreans have got richer and taller, North Korean children are being stunted by malnourishment".

Less than 1% have Internet access:

“merely owning a computer requires permission from local government authorities, and all personal computers are registered with the police as if they were shotguns.” 

......“Private ownership of fax machines is banned outright, and sending a single fax requires high-level authorization. Meanwhile, pirated DVDs of South Korean TV dramas are so illegal that North Koreans caught with them in regular police sweeps can be sentenced to years in labor camps.”

And yet:

“the UN Security Council found that North Korean hackers had stolen more than $670 million worth of foreign currency and cryptocurrency, according to Nikkei Asian Review. The hackers' big hauls included $81 million from Bangladesh Bank, $13.5 million from Cosmos Bank in India, and $10 million from the Bank of Chile's ATM network”.

Of course the normal question that needs answering is this: If the North Korean government controls the Internet so strictly, how could that have happened without the government’s approval?

North Korea at night. 

There are 25 million people living in North Korea. Their economy is for the most part non-existent with most making less than $2000 a year. North Korea is an extremely mineral rich nation, but as in all communist systems, because corruption and incompetence, they fail to take advantage of those resources.

Remember how the Obama administration not only failed to exploit American’s oil resources, they actually tried to impede oil exploitation. The Obama people disingenuously point out that oil production rose during his administration, and that’s true. But that was a lie of omission. The reason oil production rose was due to exploitation by capitalists on private property, not government owned or controlled property and areas such as off shore drilling.

The nation of North Korea is a virtual slave camp of abuse and corruption. According to Time,

“Rape, summary executions, slavery and mass imprisonment are among the horrors the North Korean regime routinely inflicts upon its own population to maintain its Stalinist political system, claims a searing new report by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council…………. According to an advanced outline leaked to the Associated Press, the U.N.’s Commission of Inquiry (COI) says Kim Jong Un’s government is involved in “extermination, crimes against humanity against starving populations and a widespread campaign of abductions of individuals in South Korea and Japan.”

And where’s the World Court? Nowhere as far as I can tell, since they’re wasting their time attempting to find Israel guilty of crimes against humanity for having the temerity to defend themselves against terrorist attacks.

But, in spite of all this suffering, Kim Jong Un is obscenely living it up on expensive imported luxury goods, just like his father and grandfather. So, where does all this money come from for such a life style?

Ben Franklins!

According to the Christian Science Monitor:

"The Federal Reserve on Tuesday began circulating a redesign of a US currency note that may be the most counterfeited monetary unit in the world: the $100 bill. Graced with Mr. Franklin’s bemused gaze on one side and Philadelphia’s Independence Hall on the other, the bill is the first new version of the C-note to be distributed by US monetary administrators in a decade" ………."The new design incorporates security features that make it easier to authenticate, but harder to replicate………”

And why? The article goes on saying:

"North Korean forging prowess is so advanced that US law enforcement officials have dubbed the fake, “nearly perfect” $100 bills “supernotes.” According to a 2009 Congressional Research Service report, at least $45 million in supernotes of North Korean origin have been detected in circulation, and Pyongyang may earn between $15 million and $25 million a year from counterfeiting. North Korean diplomats often play roles in getting fake bills into circulation, lugging suitcases packed with bad money to their home embassies, then spending the bills in small, innocuous amounts in stores, casinos, restaurants, or elsewhere……….According to the Korean newspaper The Chosun Ilbo, one North Korean embassy in Eastern Europe generated US$30 million by exchanging counterfeit notes a year."

Apparently money isn't all they counterfeit:

“North Korea is unique in that it is the only country in the world to manufacture cigarettes, drugs like Viagra, hard currency; this is an essential instrument of regime preservation……..The regime relies on criminal activities, because it has no other means for generating revenue”.

Socialist all claim they care about people offering all sorts of remedies to fix things that aren’t broken.  They promise utopia and consistently fail.  What they're successful at delivering is corruption, incompetence, tyranny, misery, suffering and early death. It's dystopia, the opposite of utopia.  They're not offering equal opportunities, they're offering equal outcomes. Everyone except the elite suffer equally. 

All this because of one man who has the power to decide life and death.  Kim Jong Un! 

The left hates MAGA, Make America Great Again, hats symbolizing conservative thinking and goals.  But what kind of hat could the left adopt that would symbolized who and what they are?  How's this:

• MANK - Make America North Korea
• MAV, Make America Venezuela
• MAC, Make America Cuba. 

Take your pick, just like these leftist candidates, they're pretty much interchangeable, because that's what all these socialists running for President of the United States desire.  Absolute power to decide life and death.  As David Horowitz says, "

"Inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out.  The Progressive believes in precisely two things: his own magnificence and the constructive power of brute force. In combination, they lead him naturally from the role of pestiferous busybody to brutal dictator." 

Perhaps you don't think Bernie Sanders believes that?  Well, you should, since one his own staff has stated that's what they wish to impose on any who oppose them.  In effect letting Americans know either do what we want, or we'll beat you, kill you, burn your property and run riot over society.  Does that sound like normal American politics, or leftist fascism? 

Bernie, has yet to act on it or fire the staff member who spouted his criminal intent for violence against Americans!  Why?  It appears his staff is filled with people completely in harmony with the violence and brutality described in the video.  This is the typical kind of projection constantly practiced by the left; fascists calling normal people fascists, and accusing them of what they are doing themselves. 

Nor, as far as I can tell, has any of his fellow Democrat candidates disavowed these comments or condemned the staffer who uttered them.  Are their staffs infested with the same kind of lunatics also? 

Finally, we need to get this right once and for all.  Fascism is a form of socialism.  Fascism is the right wing of socialism as communism is the left wing of socialism, two sides of the same coin.  But they're both left wing creations.  They are not conservatives.  They are not the right wing of Democracy in America.  That belongs to conservatives who believe in the rule of law, truth, justice and the American way.  Please view, The Fascist Roots Behind Today's Justification of Political Violence by Doug Petrikat, which appeared yesterday at American Thinker.

Democrats running for President of the United States, along with their allies in the media and universities that promote leftism, are the true fascists of American politics.  And in spite of all the atrocities, disasters, and abject failures of socialism, 40 % of American embrace some form of socialism. 

There are even people in Russia who declare that Stalin really didn't kill all those people. I guess Hitler didn't kill all those Jews either.  In so many socialist tyrannies that seems to be a recurring theme. So many bodies turning up in mass graves no one killed.

H.L. Mencken was right when he said: “No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”

Feel the Bern: Another North Korean Nightmare.

By Rich Kozlovich

On July 18, 2019 Josh Smith posted an article with Reuters entitled, Malnutrition, disease rising in North Korea: aid organization, saying:

"Rates of malnutrition and disease are increasing in North Korea as it faces a harvest that is half of what was expected, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said on Thursday."

As a result of “erratic weather with drought and floods, and a lack of access to resources could lead to a food crisis in a country”.

Let's take a moment and think about this.  If weather is the reason for their crop failures, why isn't South Korea facing the same problem?

Why is there a lack of access to resources? Well, I guess that makes it our fault....right?  Because N. Korea is “under strict international sanctions over leader Kim Jong Un’s pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.”

It isn’t because of corruption of the N. Korean government. It isn’t because of the incompetence, greed and stupidity of those in power. It isn’t due to an economic system that has never failed to deliver anything except suffering, misery, disease, starvation and early death.  It isn't because they keep threatening the world with missiles and nuclear weapons.  By implication - it’s our fault because the sanctions caused “widening trade deficits, foreign currency shortages and a deepening cash crunch”.

Well, isn’t that what sanctions are supposed to do?

Unfortunately, “rates of malnutrition and water borne diseases like diarrhea and colitis are on the rise”. Furthermore, “North Korea is expected to exhaust its crop reserves earlier than usual this year”.

This isn't anything new for North Koreans. "In the 1990s, a nationwide famine killed as many as one million people.” In 2014 this was a nation of 25 million people, and in 1990 the population may have initially been larger since in the mid nineties North Korean birth rate dropped about 50%.  Based on the 25 million number, the million people who starved to death amounts to about 4% of N. Korea's population.  To get the full impact of that we have to realize if that happened in America that would amount to 12,400,000 people starving to death.  A national human disaster by any calculation. 

To expand on this please note that almost 5% of the North Korean population is serving in the military.  That's close to 1.3 million people in a nation of 25 million people!  How can any nation justify that kind of military spending when the people of the nation are starving? 

The United States has a population of over 325 million people and only has "1.3 million men and women on active duty," and "another 1.1 million serve in the National Guard and Reserve forces." That comes to just a little over 2.4 million people.  Approximately .75%.  If you add in civilian employees, which I doubt North Korean figures do, that's another 669,281 coming to just under 1%.  And America has been actively involved in military action for decades. 

What war is Kim fighting?  Well, actually the Korean War.  It never ended with a treaty, just an armistice.  So Kim keeps telling his people they have to suffer in order to keep the United States and South Korea from conquering them.  Wouldn't that be terrible with starvation and oppression ending.  Of course the people are left in the dark about that by a lunatic who not only kills his own people, he kills his own family. 

The world is now producing food in such quantities there's absolutely no reason why any nation should have starvation.  How could any national leader allow that to happen when the world's food supply is so amazingly abundant unless he's insane. 

What has Kim Jong Un and his cutthroats done to keep this from happening again?   He and his gang continue “to import millions of dollars worth of luxury goods, including at least two armored limousines valued at $500,000 each”.  All for their own benefit without one iota of concern about the poor suffering North Korean people.

It’s reported:

“South Korea will donate $4.5 million to the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP), and announced it was also providing 50,000 tonnes of rice for delivery to its northern neighbor. South Korea also recently donated $3.5 million to the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF) for humanitarian projects in North Korea.”

First of all, I have to wonder how much of that will really get to the people.  N. Korea has in the past imposed a "military first" policy for food and allowed the civilian population to starve.  A population divided into three castes based on loyalty to the regime.  About 25% are in the third caste, which are considered a threat to the regime, and make no mistake about it, they starve.  Secondly, what did South Korea get in return for their generosity and humanity? Kim just recently announced his bankrupt starving country might start testing missiles again.

He can’t find the money to feed his people but he can find the money for luxuries and missile testing?

So he threatens to double down on the activity that caused sanctions and the resulting suffering in the first place.  Why?  I have to believe this is an attempt to intimidate the west into giving him money and food for his starving people. Which will free up money - money he doesn't really have - to promote insanity.  Why insanity?  Because if he ever used any of those missiles with a nuclear device, he and his nation would cease to exist in 24 hours. 

But what about the starving people of his nation? 

He clearly doesn't care about them.  If you're a moral person you have to feel for the pain, suffering and the terrible impact this will have on the people of this nation.  Especially the children. Even if they survive, malnutrition during those development years impacts them negatively for the rest of their lives.

What should be done? 

One thing has been made clear to me over the years is governments like N. Korea, with the Kims, Venezuela with Muduro, Zimbabwe with Mugabe for decades, and others, devastate their citizens to the point it seems impossible for them to rid themselves of these monsters.  And in the cases where outside forces cleared them out and attempted to bring Democratic principles into play, they vote in the same kind of people that devasted them, which we've seen in Muslim controlled nations. 

If we provide medical care and food for these people it merely helps keep the monsters running these countries in power, prolonging the misery and agony they impose.   If we refuse to aid them innocent people suffer and die now.  Either way, these nations represent no threat to the rest of the world because of the greed, corruption and mismanagement of their governments.  North Korea is the exception.  They represent a danger to their neighbors and even the United States because of their missile and nuclear programs, which would have never come into being except for Jimmy Carter and the Clintons.

That, in my opinion, leaves only the military, and not the senior military personnel.  The younger members at the next level down is where any overthrow would have to come from. Is that possible?  No one has any idea, and no one has connections in North Korea to tell anyone, at least as far as has been published, but who knows, except there's a possibility either China or Russia could have access to personnel in N. Korea who they would support in secret.  But they won't!

What would I do? 

Let it all play out no matter how miserable it would make me feel. Stand firm and expand the sanctions.  Prevent their ability to import "luxuries", including food.  Let the leadership survive on what the nation produces and hope someone has what it takes to overthrown the Kim dynasty.  But will they be any better? 

Sometimes you don't have the privilege of being able to pick between a good choice and a bad choice.  Sometimes you're only left with the best bad choice. 

If doubt what I've said please feel free to peruse my N. Korea files, and you may find my article, N. Korean Crisis: Will This Lead to WWIII? profound and provocative. 

Can There Be Agreement With North Korea?

By Rich Kozlovich

Xander Snyder posted this article, North Korea Negotiations Aren’t Dead Yet on Aug 30, 2017 in Geopolitics | Geopolitical Futures, discussing the over flight of a N. Korean short range ballistic missile.

There were some interesting points made here including why Japan didn’t bother to shoot it down, as in they can’t or they’re not confident in their systems and didn’t want to appear vulnerable if they attempted to do so and failed. All good points.

They also sent one out far enough to demonstrate they could hit Alaska if they wanted to do so, and the author says this “was clearly an escalation, but it, too, must be considered in the context of ongoing negotiations”, as in “a regime expressing displeasure with a hang-up either in negotiations or in the direction they’re taking.” That’s really the point, isn’t it? Where is this going to go? What will everyone settle for? And what will the long-term consequences be?

The author explains this was done over Japan for a number of reasons. Japan once invaded and controlled Korea and they just imposed sanctions on N. Korea. N. Korea took a page right out of Chinese diplomacy. This was an “object lesson” aggression for future consideration.

Is there real room of legitimate compromise with N. Korea? I don’t think so, and as the author notes: whatever compromise they discuss would be extremely difficult to implement.

He goes on to note that the U.S. needs to “ensure that North Korea has not only abandoned its nuclear weapons program, but also that its ability to resume the program is removed. This would mean intrusive inspections that the North is unlikely to accept.”

N. Korea will want assurances they won’t be attacked by S. Korean or American forces, which is a red herring or the belief of a completely irrational paranoid regime, which is what they are, and the U.S. isn’t going to diminish it’s “presence in the Pacific”, which is what China would like in order for them to impose an economic hegemony over their neighbors through intimidation, which puts it at odds with the Phillipines and India, which want to become the dominent naval power in the region.

I agree with the author that this is the calm before the storm, because N. Korea is going to push this to the point it can’t be ignored militarily.  I can't see how there can be any agreement or compromise that will be acceptable to Kim, so that leaves two options.  His military has a coup and executes him or a military intervention, wherein N. Korea will cease to exist and the peninsula will be united under S. Korean control giving the people of N. Korea a chance for descent lives instead of the brutality they’ve experienced since 1948.

I also think Russia and China will benefit because this will open a much larger consumer market for them, if they will only grasp that obvious reality. 

N. Korean Crisis: Will This Lead to WWIII?

By Rich Kozlovich

On August 8, 2017 Gage Cohen published an article entitled, President Trump: North Korea ‘Will Be Met with Fire and Fury’ saying:

On Tuesday afternoon, after it was reported that North Korea has successfully created nuclear warheads small enough to fit inside its ballistic missiles, President Donald Trump warned that if Kim Jong Un’s government makes more threats towards the United States, they “will be met with fire and fury.”  

“North Korea best not make anymore threats to the United States, they will be met with fire and fury, like the world has never seen".

Okay, that's impressive, but what's it mean? 

As I've watched this develop I keep coming back to the one singular force responsible for this problem - the Clintons - and the second dumbest President of the United States - Jimmy Carter.  It was the Clintons who gave Korea the technology to get to where they are now, and for an agreement they violated on day one.  A deal similar to what the dumbest President of the United States gave Iran.

So what now? Here's the way I see it.

I. Will Kim actually use a nuclear device on anyone?

• The problem is N. Korea is so isolated it's hard to fathom the quality of his character. We know he's a murderous little monster, even killing his own family members, so we know he's a murderous psychopath, but does that make him a stupid murderous psychopath?  (more on that later) Some are claiming he's not that stupid, but no one knows for sure.  But frankly, I think he is.

II. If he's not willing to use a nuclear devise on someone why did he spend so much to create a nuclear arsenal and what are his goals.

• No one really knows, but I think his ego is so out of control he may think he can intimidate his neighbors and the U.S. to stay out of Korean peninsula politics.  I think he may believe he can then force S. Korea into unifying under his rule.

III. If he does use a nuclear device what will the U.S. do?

• It's my belief the U.S. will eliminate N. Korea because they would represent a real threat to the western U.S. The nation is a massive military complex with underground facilities, but if they use those facilities they become exposed. With satellite confirmation every piece of artillery, every bunker and every nuclear facility can be wiped out in days. If they use a nuclear device I think the U.S. will also.  It wouldn't take much destruction to completely bring the country down, along with any idea that N. Korea is a modern nation. It isn't! The picture below shows even Eastern Russia is more advanced that N. Korea. There's only one major light source shown here - and that's the capital. This would be an unmistakable message to Iran, the terrorists, China, Russia and the so-called free world, one they may need since Iran will soon be where N. Korea is now.   But Kim has to use a nuclear device first for this to happen.

IV.  Are there any internal N. Korean politics that can stop this?

• As I said he murdered his own family members and I think the reason isn't because he feared being generally overthrown.  He feared being overthrown for doing what he's doing now.  His actions were done with a long term vision.  A vision he may have shared with his father because he clearly had this agenda in mind from the beginning.  He had to eliminate anyone with any potential to override his megalomania  thus eliminating any voices of reason or dissent.  That in my opinion leaves only the military, and not the senior military personnel.  The younger members at the next level down is where any overthrow would have to come from. Is that possible?  No one has any idea, and no one has connections in N. Korea to tell them as far as has been published, but who knows, except there's a possibility either China or Russia could have access to personnel in N. Korea who they would support in secret.  More on that later. 

V.  What will the world's response if the U.S. uses a nuclear device on N. Korea?

• The world's left will rant, scream, claim racism and demand Trump be prosecuted for crimes against humanity, but here's the real truth.  The world's nations need the U.S. After the heat of passion blows over the cool breeze of economics will take effect.  We don't need them - they need us.  They'll accept it, and I think privately - they'll be glad. Even China and Russia recognize they don't want or need a nut case loose cannon like Kim upsetting the world's economy.  Especially since he's at their back door.  As for what the they think in Europe, Africa and South America?  Who cares?  They need us - we don't need them.   And what about the U.N.?  A really big "who cares" for them. 

VI.  What military options are available to N. Korea?

• They have no blue water navy, and according and to the Department of Defense, in 2014 their navy has "60,000 personnel, 70 submarines, 420 gun boats, 260 amphibious landing craft, 30 mine warfare vessels, and 30 support ships."  Their Navy is positioned independently on both sides of N. Korea without any ability to support each other.
• Their air force is large but a "nearly completely obsolete air force" consisting of "110,000 members", with "940 aircraft of different types; mostly of old Soviet and Chinese origin."  "The only aircraft Pyongyang possesses that might marginally threaten American air power are its small fleet of Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrums. “They supposedly have up to 40 MiG-29s, but I’m not sure how many of them are still airworthy but some surely are.”   “Pilot training is limited and never exceeds 20 flight hours per."  It's clear they have no real long range capability and make no mistake about this - in any engagement with the U.S. they will have to face the finest aviators in the world - U.S. Navy aviators.  The Top Gun flyers!  And just as Saddam Hussein's pilots eventually gave up and flew to Iran to escape -  they'll go down in flames or fly into China. 
• They have a very large ground to air defense system throughout the country but mostly old Soviet systems, with some systems that are supposedly very capable.  However, doesn't this remind you of the kind of defense system used by Saddam Hussein?  One the Americans cut through like a hot knife through butter.  Building or buying advanced systems is enormously expensive, but maintaining them is also shockingly expensive, and that's not a one time expense.  That expense keeps on climbing year after year.  They're not a capital generating nation and I don't think they're capable of properly maintaining a fraction of what they have, and anything they're producing themselves is done with technology that's 20 to 40 years old. 
• Their army is massive with over a million men serving, and in a country that small - that's a commitment that can't be maintained under stress for very long, and they've not fought a real war for over 60 years.  Their command and control system clearly only goes one way - from the top down - with Kim as the Supreme Commander, a man with no viable training for the job.  Since it's clear their system of government has never allowed too much independent thinking or action in the lower ranks, this is a sure system for failure.  They're allegedly the fourth largest army in the world, but that was the spot Saddam Hussein's army once held. 

Well, that's how I see it, but there's no way of knowing what will happen or when.  However, history has shown upstarts like this guy are tolerated just so long as their not stepping on someone else's parade.  When their ego gets so out of control they think they can intimidate the big boys on the block - someone will eventually be forced to smack them - hard. 

Will that start a WWIII? No. He's a fly that needs swatted and neither Russia or China want to see any action expanded, as long as their territory isn't impacted - and I believe either or both of them can be bought off with some kind of "favored nation" economic agreement.  Both Putin and  Xi Jinping are far more worried about keeping their economy functioning as best as can be done with their incompetent control in order to stay in power than any concerns they may harbor about keeping Kim safe or in power. 

Furthermore, if North Korea ceased to exist and they became a unified  nation under control of South Korea a couple of things would happen.  It wouldn't be long before the people of North Korea fell in love with the new government because they wouldn't have to keep starving to death, and Korea, China and Russia would benefit economically from this new capital generating nation.  This would open markets for all three because they would not only  trade across the waters, they could trade and transport products directly overland to a new consumer market that didn't exist under Kim.

As I think of this - Russia and China may privately want Kim gone.