{"id":129156,"date":"2014-07-09T17:03:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T17:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=129156"},"modified":"2014-07-09T17:17:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T17:17:45","slug":"washingtons-corporate-media-imperial-war-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/media-news\/washingtons-corporate-media-imperial-war-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington\u2019s Corporate Media and the Imperial War on Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Danny Haiphong<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #535353;\">\u201c<em><strong>US imperial\u00a0slander\u00a0occurs\u00a0so often that the\u00a0fallacies\u00a0only become more ridiculous.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #535353;\">The corporate media is the mouthpiece of US imperialism. More specifically, the\u00a0Hollywood arm of the corporate media is tasked with promoting the\u00a0US-Western imperialist way of life as profitable &#8220;entertainment.\u201d Seth Rogan&#8217;s new film fits snugly into this mold. In\u00a0<em>The Interview,\u00a0<\/em>Rogan and James Franco play CIA recruits assigned with the job\u00a0of\u00a0assassinating\u00a0the current leader of the Democratic\u00a0People&#8217;s\u00a0Republic of Korea (DPRK), Kim Jong-un. This overtly cruel and monstrous plot line should come as no surprise to anyone following US imperialism\u2019s decades long war against Korea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #535353;\">\u00a0The Korean War is\u00a0labeled a\u00a0&#8220;forgotten war&#8221; by\u00a0the US corporate media and political class. In reality, the US imperialist ruling class has done everything it can to erase the stain of the Korean War\u00a0from popular memory. The US imperialist war on Korea formally began in\u00a01950 after\u00a0the US violated a\u00a0temporary (three year) political agreement with the Soviet Union to peacefully divide\u00a0Korea along the 38th parallel. Instead of abiding by the agreement, the US installed dictator Syngman Rhee in the South and armed it to the teeth at the tune of a half billion US dollars. Rhee used the funds to slaughter hundreds of thousands of guerrilla forces in the North. Despite this, Korean independence and socialist forces counter-attacked and liberated Seoul, the capital of South Korea. Washington, in a scramble to protect its interests in South East Asia from socialist construction and Chinese alliance, agreed to reserve 12 billion dollars for a land invasion in Korea.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #535353;\">\u201c<em><strong>The US imperialist ruling class has done everything it can to erase the stain of the Korean War\u00a0from popular memory.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #535353;\">During the invasion, the US dropped 420,000 bombs on the capital of the DPRK, Pyongyang. The bombing campaigns left large percentages of Northern Korea without homes or basic infrastructure. More than a million Koreans died. Despite heavy losses, the resistance of the\u00a0Korean Peoples Army and the socialist Korean Workers Party forced the US into an armistice agreement in 1953.\u00a0\u00a0To this day, the US\u00a0refuses to sign a peace treaty\u00a0and\u00a0maintains a militarized presence in the South, where\u00a029,000 US\u00a0ground troops are currently stationed. The US government also enforces economic sanctions on the DPRK. \u00a0US\u00a0sanctions exacerbated the\u00a0DPRK&#8217;s\u00a0food insecurity crisis in the early 90&#8217;s after\u00a0the destabilization of the Soviet Union and socialist bloc cut off much of the nation&#8217;s access to international trade and finance.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #535353;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackagendareport.com\/content\/washington%E2%80%99s-corporate-media-and-imperial-war-korea\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danny Haiphong \u201cUS imperial\u00a0slander\u00a0occurs\u00a0so often that the\u00a0fallacies\u00a0only become more ridiculous.\u201d The corporate media is the mouthpiece of US imperialism. More specifically, the\u00a0Hollywood arm of the corporate media is tasked with promoting the\u00a0US-Western imperialist way of life as profitable &#8220;entertainment.\u201d Seth Rogan&#8217;s new film fits snugly into this mold. In\u00a0The Interview,\u00a0Rogan and James Franco play CIA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,7,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-129156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news","7":"category-media-news","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}