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AFP – A US senator urged Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday to do more to help reunite Korean-American families separated from their North Korea kin after the 1950-1953 Korean War.
Article by Laura Bramble
We are finally seeing the fruits of our recent interventionist style foreign policy. North Korea, perhaps inspired by the plot of a 1959 movie, is doing what any cash strapped nation should seriously consider doing- it is threatening the US into conflict so that we will have to invade and rebuild it with our own money or give them aid and capitulate in order to get them to stand down.North Korea has cost the US considerable money and resources for the last 50+ years. The DMZ is a huge military operation with significant full time military presence and equipment. Unbeknownst to most Americans, the soldiers stationed in South Korea at the DMZ are in constant threat and in a continual state of alert. There have been regular attempts by North Korea to breach the DMZ and start conflict; a conflict that it has no hope of winning, but that it can use to cause a significant headache for the US. Knowing that China will jump into the fray if necessary, it is a conflict that North Korea also knows that the US cannot win and cannot pursue full out without running the risk of starting a major world war with China. This dangerous game has been going on under the noses of the American public ever since the end of the Korean War. In the meantime, North Korea, one of the poorest nations in the world, has watched us invade and spend significant money rebuilding the infrastructure of nations we have been in conflict with. The US has spent billions, if not trillions, in Iraq and Afghanistan to construct hospitals, schools, roads, and civilian peace keeping forces and propping up governments- all without conditions or sanctions. All the Iraqi and Afghani people have to do is stay quiet, subdued, and prosper. Kim Jong Il would love nothing more than to prop up the nation he and his father squandered with monies that he will claim they “won” from the US and that “cost” him nothing. This is yet another side effect from the “spreading democratic capitalism at any cost” style foreign policy that the US has been engaging for far too long, and the conservative’s and our media’s preoccupation with raising the boogeyman of socialism/capitalism to scare the public into line is not helping. Reagan may have been able to end the Cold War with consistent pressure on the USSR in the 1980′s, but North Korea is not the USSR and Reagan could not have foreseen the military costs that the USSR paid during their own failed attempt at subduing Afghanistan. There is no major economic or military benefit from engaging the North Koreans- it’s like using a howitzer to kill a bee. We also do not have the ability, with our current military stretched to capacity as is and Pakistan on the brink of collapse, to act decisively if the situation demanded it. Yet there is a significant advantage for North Korea in getting us to do it.President Obama and Secretary Clinton have in their hands the first serious foreign policy challenge of their administration. North Korea, as well as other small and impoverished nations with nuclear capability such as Iran, are watching to see what happens. This is another move in a chess game the US has been playing for a long time, but this time the stakes have never been higher.
Laura Bramble
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North and South Korea exchanged artillery fire Tuesday after the North shelled an island near their disputed sea border, killing at least two South Korean marines, setting dozens of buildings ablaze and sending civilians fleeing for shelter. The skirmish began when Pyongyang warned the South to halt military drills in the area, according to South Korean officials. When Seoul refused, the North bombarded the small South Korean-held island of Yeonpyeong, which houses military installations and a small civilian population. South Korea returned fire and dispatched fighter jets in response, and said there could be considerable North Korean casualties as troops unleashed intense retaliatory fire. The supreme military command in Pyongyang threatened more strikes if the South crossed their maritime border by “even 0.001 millimeter,” according to the North’s official Korean Central News Agency. Government officials in Seoul called the bombardments “inhumane atrocities” that violated the 1953 armistice halting the Korean War. The two sides technically remain at war because a peace treaty was never signed. The exchange was a sharp escalation of the skirmishes that flare up along the disputed border from time to time, and come amid high tensions over North Korea’s claim that it has a new uranium enrichment facility and just six weeks after North Korean leader Kim Jong Il unveiled youngest son Kim Jong Un as his heir apparent. Columns of thick black smoke could be seen rising from …
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Drove to Quebec City, about ten miles. Today is the Feast of St John the Baptist, a major holiday in Provence Quebec. Over 250,000 people gathered the previous evening on the Plains of Abraham for a concert and fireworks display. The streets in the Old City were still filled with revelers and sanitation workers were cleaning up the debris left from the huge party.
With the temperature in the nineties we took our water bottles and started off on the walking tour of the old city. The old city, vieux Quebec, is surrounded by a wall with only a few gates to permit entry. Our first stop was the Jesuit Chapel built in 1817. This is a very simple chapel whose architect was a member of the Baillairge dynasty. They seem to have designed most of the churches in Provence Quebec.
Down the street, next to the fortifications, is Artillery Park, a National Historical Site of Canada. The park has buildings you can visit. The most interesting of them is the Dauphine Redoubt. The lowest two floors were built by the French in 1712. The British added a third floor, and the Canadians added a fourth floor when the complex was used as a munitions factory from 1902 until 1964. The park includes an officer’s quarters and a barracks, which is the longest building built by the French in North America. Until then the soldiers were quartered in the homes of civilians.
From Artillery Park we walked the historic streets to the Cathedral of Notre Dame, the oldest parish North of Mexico. Bishop Laval, the diocese first bishop traveled most of the diocese, which extended from Newfoundland to New Orleans, LA. Remember that all of the land along the Mississippi once was claimed by France. Across the plaza is the City Hall and next door is the Seminary, which eventually became Laval University.A short three block walk is the luxury hotel, Chateau Frontenac, which dominates the Quebec Skyline. The tower was not part of the original hotel. When a fire destroyed the old hotel the tower was built and the hotel surrounded it. This seems to be one of the focal points of the city. Many people congregate around the hotel, perhaps because of the numerous parks which surround it.
A walk down Rue St. Louis bring you to a tree with a canon ball in its roots, a souvenir from the fall of Quebec in 1759 under a hail of over 20,000 cannon balls.Walking the streets is a real treat. Even though the sidewalks are narrow and the streets climb up and down the hills, the experience is one of being in an eighteenth century French town.
The changing of the guard at the Citadel is a must see event. The Citadel, erected on the original French site in 1820 to ward off attack from the USA, is the home of the 23rd Regiment of the Canadian Army. Formed during World War I, as the only French speaking Canadian regiment, they have also seen combat action during World War II and the Korean Conflict. At 10:00 A.M. daily they hold the traditional changing of the guard, complete with marching band and their goat mascot. Sixteen men, plus their officers are on guard duty for twenty-four hour periods. The ceremony takes thirty-five minutes and is then followed by an hour tour of the facilities.
The fortress is the largest fortification garrisoned by regular troops in North America. Star shaped in design, the main defense faced the river, the cannons having a two and a half mile range. While on the tour, the commandant’s wife waved from a second floor window to the group and showed off her two year old puppy, Chelsea. The Citadel overlooks the Plains of Abraham, where Montcalm lost the battle to Wolfe. During the battle, both lost their lives. There is free two hour parking inside the walls of the fortress. The entry is serpentine and the main gate is very narrow, the original structure from the fortifications.
We drove around the Plains of Abraham. Here too is free parking, the visitor’s center, the fine arts museum and beautiful views of the river. Here the cliffs protecting Old Quebec fall way to sloping access to the river, perfect entry for the army to attack.Drove past the summit of Montmorency Falls. The falls have been dammed to harness electricity. A suspension bridge let people look down from the summit and a cable car takes passengers from the bottom to the top and vice versa. Since the falls are higher than Niagara Falls, use of the cable car is better than climbing the steps.
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John Pelley is a Geriatric Gypsy. He is retired from the rat race of working. He is a full-time RVer, who ran away from home. He began our travels on the East Coast and, like the migrating birds, seek the warmth of the seasons He has discovered volunteering with the National Park System. He has a CD he has recorded of Native American flute music., A Day with Kokopelli. For pictures, links, and more information visit http://kim-jong-il.com/8nS.
