Demonizing North Korea: Caleb Maupin Interview

The #ColdWar between capitalism and communism got very hot when the #KoreanWar erupted in 1950. Few living Americans know much about that war, which aborted Korea’s revolution, gave the U.S. a military and economic foothold in the Far East, and was used to justify the anti-communist crusade. Three million North Koreans and one million South Koreans are estimated to have died in the conflict, along with nearly a million Chinese and 54,000 U.S. soldiers. It is an unfinished war, with a heavily militarized truce hanging by the thread of a cease-fire between North and South. Anxious questions have been sparked by recent war games involving #NorthKorea and #SouthKorea, the latter backed by U.S. warships, air power, and the nearly 30,000 troops still based in the South. U.S. corporate media, following the State Department and Pentagon line, blame the hair-raising brinkmanship on maniacal, paranoia-fueled aggression by the North. In reality, the North has every reason to be paranoid, with the lo