Germ Warfare in Korea

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/04/09/new-revelations-on-germ-warfare-its-time-for-a-reckoning-with-our-history-from-the-korean-war/

In 1998 the Wilson Center concluded that the many longstanding claims regarding American use of germ agents during the Korean War were not only not credible, they were based on a hoax. In response to this I would argue that anyone who has spent any time looking into the Wilson Center would have known the germ warfare denial was all but an endorsement of its reality. In other words if the Wilson Center is denying it – it probably happened.

The Wilson Center is one of the Empire's premier think-tanks and centers for propaganda and revision. It's a nexus for Wall Street and CIA-connected academics and strategists, a laboratory in which cover-ups are orchestrated, history is rewritten, and doctrines for future wars are sketched out.

Few understand what happened in Korea, and the way the United States conducted itself. The country was wasted beyond reckoning. The Mongols and even the Nazis appear as amateurs in the arts of destruction and mass murder when compared to the fury of the American Empire unleashed in the early days of the Cold War – an empire that had nearly been defeated by the end of August 1950 and driven into the sea. The retaliatory strike that began at Inchon is legendary and yet seldom understood. American fury was further heightened by the terrible setbacks that occurred shortly after their victories in September 1950. In October, the Chinese intervened and humiliated the United States once more leading to a massive retreat in December of 1950. In April of 1951 Douglas MacArthur was relieved of command, and American domestic politics began to play a large role in the public's perception of Korea.

Truman who had already shown himself willing to commit mass murder in Japan was determined to score a massive and decisive victory in Korea. While he (to MacArthur's dismay) rejected the use of nuclear weapons in that theatre and a larger conflict with China and possibly the USSR, the US was nevertheless determined to win – even if it meant levelling the country, which is exactly what was done. And yet despite the fact that the entirety of North Korea was wasted beyond reckoning, the stalemate persisted and resulted in a virtual status quo ante bellum. It was a testimony to Chinese and Korean tenacity which exists at a level beyond American reckoning or comprehension.

It is in this context, in the context of McCarthyism and the fury over the CCP's victory in 1949 – not to mention the defeats and humiliations in Korea, that one must understand the mentality of the US leadership and its willingness to 'take the gloves off' as it were. In more recent times we saw this sort of thing in the aftermath of 9/11 and it certainly got ugly as subsequent years and the numerous scandals would reveal.

The fall of 1950 and the months and years after were a similar time in terms of US foreign policy and military thinking. And with monsters like Curtis LeMay in charge of the bombing campaign – only mass death could be the result.

It therefore should be no surprise that the US unleashed biological weapons. Truman, little man that he was, certainly possessed the temperament for it. And of course later the US public would learn of all sorts of programmes the US was running in terms of chemical weapons, nuclear experimentation, assassination, mind control and the like. To this day, very few understand the scope of American projects and research and just how far the American Deep State was willing to go.  And this ignorance dwells alongside a larger lack of understanding regarding just what the US did not only in Korea, but in Vietnam – in terms of bombing, sheer brutality, and the use of chemicals like Agent Orange. And when one considers today's wars and the use of Depleted Uranium, we find the tragic murderous legacy continues. It's the same old stories and the same cover-ups. There's always a think-tank ready to produce the needed work that all the court historians and compromised journalists can pick up and refer to.

In fact when it comes to Weapons of Mass Destruction the US stands alone. No other nation has used such weapons as the US has and no other nation would have the audacity to do so and then attempt to preach to the world its virtues and so-called values. The demonic evil unleashed by Washington on the Korean peninsula played a significant role in North Korea and enabled the Kim dynasty to hoard and consolidate its power. A traumatised and broken people that had suffered on a scale only rivaled by the Chinese and Russians in World War II looked for a savior and found one in Kim Il-sung.

As the article states there never really can be any hope of peace and reconciliation with North Korea if the past is not reckoned with. The problem is the US can never be honest about its own history. If it did, its phony narrative about itself (that much of the world already acknowledges) would collapse. In the meantime, the rhetoric is employed. It works on the US public and also continues to deceive the young and naive in many parts of the world. For others, they know the US is a great power and great powers commit great evil. That said, the bright lights and the glitter of gold is enough for them to shrug their shoulders and embrace an ethic common the world over – if you can't beat them then join them.

And yet North Korea is an ongoing tragedy. It's a place of great evil and continued suffering. There's plenty of blame to pass around but a good deal of it belongs to the United States of America. It helped to create the conditions and laid the foundation for what exists there today.

If the US ever hopes to 'flip' North Korea and turn them against China (as Trump attempted), the past will have to be reckoned with but again, it's a proverbial Catch-22. The United States will not and indeed cannot do so. And as such the Kim regime cannot ally with Washington as long as American crimes go unanswered. They have heavily invested their authority in that narrative and they are likewise trapped by it. It's an impasse that can only be broken by the toppling or collapse of the Kim regime.