The Genesis Of The Naughty Korea

The story of the division of Korea into the North and the South is an example of how predaciously dishonest the leaders of world powers have always been. By History (the scant facts available of the period between 3000BC an now), nearly every "drastic" venture of liberation has been a gateway into greater bondage; bondage to a person, a tiny group of persons or some popular stupidities. There were only a few exceptions.
Outside their home territory, the leadership of the USA have been especially hypocritical to the American ideals of human freedom.These ideals are excellent. And they are enhanced above their counterparts by being encoded in the most flexible, catholic, language of our time. As sure as concrete facts are stronger than fantasies, the present military hyper-power of the world is, and has been, unfaithful to her professed and constitutionalized tenet: that all human souls are equal in personhood and (excepting unpunished criminals) have inalienable rights to freedom and happiness, sovereignly worthy of respect.
To me, some of the greatest heroes and guardians of human liberty were the judges who recognised and affirmed, in that circumstance, the legitimateness of Mr. Martin King's cause against the brand of injustice (American apartheid).

The people of the Korean peninsula, like many other peaceable peoples, have suffered greatly at the hands of their aggressive neighbours. Chief among the aggressors is Japan. Japan molested and oppressed Korea for many years. Then, in 1910, Japan's imperial armies achieved a definite annexation of Korea. They immediately began a massive settlement programme by which Japanese families were put on the peninsula. They had envisaged an eternal lordship of Hapon over Korea.
The Koreans resisted. The resistance struggle was still on when the European second World War broke out. Alignment and assignment of forces (armies) changed

Japan fought on the side of Germany and Italy. When Mr. Hitler finally over-reached himself, the victors, leaders of the Allied Nations, went to Yalta to divide their spoils. They went with political geographers and experts in cartography. Yalta was a town in Crimea, presently in Ukraine.
Korea was given to Stalin and Roosevelt. Churchil had other plans.
USSR was to enter from the north; USA, from the south. The demarcation line was latitude 38 degrees. That was how Korea got partitioned in February 1945.
Following this, a Socialist government arose in the North, headed by an officer in the Armée Rouge (Red Army), the armed forces that had fought against Japanese occupation earlier. His name was Kim Il Sung (Kim Sung-Il). He and his comrades had opposed the partitioning but could not have their way.
A capitalist government arose in the South, headed by a man, Syngman Rhee.

At the time, the two Koreas were quite un-unifiable in any foreseeable future.The relationship between them was war-like. Yet the leaders of the Allied Nations declared that a unified, independent and democratic Korean government was soon going to be established.
It was only a matter of a short time before a ful-scale war broke out between the North and the South, in June 1950. In approximately two weeks, North Korean forces over-ran the South and put the entire peninsula under their control.
Quickly, the armies of the USA, in the cloak of United Nations, “intervened”. They went to fight for their puppet, the South Korean government.
A very, very bitter war ensued.
Three years, and more than 300,000 military personnel, were wasted. Very many lay people, probably numbering in millions, were also unaccountably dissipated. Then the USA accepted and signed an armistice in 1953.

Since then, from Kim Sung-Il to Kim Jong-Il, North Korea, like Cuba, had been on vigil.

Dealers with monsters often develop(ed) monster-like characteristics.
USA is an imperialist lion, roaring and seeking for someone(s) to devour.
Betrayed and over-alerted by the South's apparent friendship with a clear plunderer of Korea, the North roars back in defiance, seldom in cooperation, whenever USA roars.

By certain reckoning, the present hysteria and rattle-tattle over North Korea is not quite about "unconventional weapons" or democracy. It is about China; China and other increasing military and economic powers in the region. Washington detests any threat, even democratic and peaceful one, to the present unicentred, global, hegemony in which she is the centre and the arrowhead. Pyongyang is a strategic weight, if added to Japan et al on the side of the United States of America.