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DPRK as Visible Superpower

BRIEFING
By Dari

San Francisco -- As the six-party negotiation proceeds further and further toward the peaceful security settlement in Northeast Asia where the current focus is the Korean Peninsula, Japan seems to feel isolated from neighbours and exposed to uncertainty.

While the Japanese media reflecting the feeling, they also fan a fear even after the multilateral agreemet on February 13. They have reinforced the attempts to invoke the so-called "threat from north Korea".

An example can be found in Yomiuri Shimbun's story titled "North Korea's Nuclear Threat: North Korea 'had plan to attack Japan'" on February 21.

The headline looks like a bone beetling out of a rotten body. The so-called "nuclear threat" would be a statement about the present situation; the so-called "plan to attack" would be a statement about the past affairs. Juxtapositioning the present and the past and mixing imaginative fear and defunct fact, Yomiuri leads readers to the world of horror where the "nuclear attack from north Korea is present".

The UPI recaps this kind of story in a shorter format as follows:

Documents reveal planned invasion of Japan
ImediNews
February 22, 2007, 04:05 AM

London (UPI) -- Documents found in London's National Archives reportedly show China, North Korea and the former Soviet Union may have planned an invasion of Japan.

Kyodo News said it discovered documents showing that U.S. intelligence officials had information that during the Korean War, the three international superpowers planned to attack Japan from the air and the ocean, while also invading Taiwan.

The documents found their way into the National Archives after the U.S. officials shared the information with Britain in 1951.

U.S. officials said the report could have originated from the Japanese Communist Party, in an attempt to boost morale by indicating the Soviet Union's involvement.

History experts dismissed the documents' accuracy, saying Soviet leader Joseph Stalin would never had engaged in such a maneuver.

Stalin was careful not to escalate things into a global war, Manchester University official Peter Lowe told the paper. He felt the Soviet Union would not be ready for a world war until the mid-1950s. In any case, the magnitude of invading Japan and Taiwan would have been beyond the capabilities of the Soviet Union, China and North Korea.

The revealation promises you with something and the last judgement betrays you with nothing. Bear in mind that a monster with dragon's head and snake's tail is a common laughing stuff in the Northeast Asia.

Although the world may be plastical to those with the keyboard that is mightier than the nuke, the DPRK suddenly emerges as one of "the three international superpowers" from the article above. Owing to the designation I had to ask me a question that I had hardly ever asked.

Was the DPRK the superpower six decades ago? After recalling the armistice of July 27, 1953, I may have to say "yes". Is the DPRK the superpower these days too? After reviewing the arrangement of February 13, 2007, I may have to say "yes" again.

Of course, it would not be a moment of laughing when an invisible superpower turns into a visible one. For the moment, let Japan feel isolated and exposed if it wants to feel like that and let's call it "a criminal's fear". Because of its reluctance to repent until this day since the end of World War 2, Japan virtually remains a war-criminal state so as to be put under protection by the US that never wants to see Pearl Harbor to be sunk again. Now that the protector shakes hands with the DPRK to embrace an amity in the near future, the protected trembles.

What a criminal is supposed to do is to repent, not to repudiate. Where there is no repentance, there is no rehabilitation.