Korea: US Threatens War, People’s Movements Demand Change w/ Ju-Hyun Park

[@Walter-vi3vh]

Hats off to Brian & his very knowledgeable guest for a valuable political/historical education. Down with imperialism & their running dogs.

[@nicholascharles9625]

Stay strong DPRK!

[@jaspercollins7005]

US cannot find enough entities to make a war with. It hurts.

[@SteveSmith-mw5zk]

American hubris is on a maniacal scale born of desperation. A giant vampire squid is no exaggeration

[@KboneZ240]

want world peace ? the first thing to do is to neutralized USA ,then fix dan reform that damn UN

[@j-dub.d-trey]

Important conversation. Thank you BT

[@drakekoefoed1642]

usa looking for more trouble when it is falling apart. insane.

[@yurik1068]

Very nice and informative, thank you guys.

[@laurieVote3rdParty]

This was great. Thank you 🙏

[@billyclifton5710]

It's hard to keep up with all the dangerous aggressive policies of our govt which span the globe, and threaten all of humanity

[@LiterarischeAktion]

organize against it in US

[@spirochristlovers]

A very important podcast is available on Spotify on the 'Blowback' series on the Korean War. A must listen if you want to understand the decades of conflict on the Korea peninsula and the anti-imperialist struggle.

[@dajiaohanren]

I second this, the Deprogram is such a pleasure to listen to. 👏

[@victoriajade521]

Can you give more info on how to find it. Very interested. Thank you.

[@WastedContender]

excellent interview!

[@kingdang855]

Great content

[@NotAPacifist825]

The DPRK military budget is HALF the nyc police budget.

[@TheReaper-ep2cq]

Well the DPRK does force their population to serve in the military for 5-8 years.

[@petergilkes7082]

​@@TheReaper-ep2cqAnd?

[@TheReaper-ep2cq]

@@petergilkes7082 you don't see the US doing that

[@petergilkes7082]

@@TheReaper-ep2cq You don't see North Koreans shooting people at random because they got sacked from work, or for plain racism. And?

[@2Khalm]

Well, here's another country coming to BRICS 😅💯👍✋

[@theedoctar]

Another great discussion. I learnt a lot.

[@fkat28]

That goes to say military industry is running the US government. The pentagon is just a branch of them. No tension, no war, no business for them. 😞

[@TheCasheba]

Thank you, Brian, this is very informative. Please in the future suggest reading materials, books, and DVDs which we can share with people.

[@damian_taylor]

Patriots, traitors and empires is a great book

[@fredtan1506]

Us military bases have been booted out of the Philippines in the 70s. It would be a disaster for Filipinos to ask for bases to return. But who knows what US$$ can do?

[@robertrichard6107]

There are four bases now back in Philippines. Fourth one being completed.

[@fredtan1506]

@@robertrichard6107 You see, Americans are stealthy, and Philippines officials are corrupt

[@TheFriend2u]

Marcos Jr held at ransom by US on his family stolen cache hidden in Swiss bank & in US, that's why. So, to him is all for the money and not for his people or country.

[@Aermydach]

For an excellent deep dive into modern Korean history, I highly recommend the podcast: Blowback - Season 3.

[@robertseaborne5758]

Thanks Brian and Ju-Hyun, for this excellent well researched conversation cum political lesson. Unfortunately, many of the conservative neo-liberals now influencing US foreign policy and Presidents of either persuasion are guided by a weird born to rule ideology, hence they are most unlikely to consider participating in let alone cooperating with Xi Jinping's idea of 'a more fair and rational implementation of global governance'. Be this as it probably is, China and Russia will not only need to continue preparing to defend their borders and people, they will probably need to do so at a pace that alarms even the weirdest of ideologies.

[@sombut415]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@joecool3332]

The Korean War is like the movie Cool Hand Luke. Luke, (Paul Newman) isn't going to let the sadistic prison warden beat him down and break his spirit. The tag line of the movie spoken by the warden is, "What we have here is a failure to communicate!"

[@fredtan1506]

It’s impossible to communicate with untrustworthy Americans. They never honor their commitment. “White men speak with forked tongue”, And recently, “not an inch to the east”. Putin has to fight it out with them. China has other tactics learned from the ancients on how to counter strike Americans, more subtle but just as effective. American days of hegemony won’t last forever.

[@josephgen467]

There has never been any efforts for reunification, but political gestures incurring so much damages against North Korea.

[@danishaffer934]

I have so many questions about the DPRK that this discussion didn't even broach. I'm honestly more interested in the domestic situation, how do the schools run, what is housing like, how many hours on average do DPRK people work? I understand why this focused on US, DPRK relations though I wish this episode had delved more into the policy of the DPRK. I think really that would be a better rhetorical strategy than going negative, you want to change minds about the DPRK highlighting US aggression is not the best way. People who are anti-DPRK will only respond by suggesting that the DPRK starves its people or something, I think it is more important to counter that narrative. Or perhaps, I'm saying that the US people, not all of us but enough, have bought into the notion that the US military is a force for good. Not a surprise when one looks at the mountain ranges of propaganda that has been created to give Statesians this notion. So I think it would be more effective to demonstrate that the DPRK is a normal place, to deconstruct the narrative that the DPRK is like a country sized prison. There by undermining the rational given for the conflict in the minds of average Statesians. I get that the point here was to talk about US imperialism and provocations against the DPRK which are real. But with the discussion of ROK politics it felt like a discussion of DPRK politics were omitted, and I for one am always interested in how DPRK runs and its isn't easy to find good sources.

[@NotAPacifist825]

@plurabelle5 as much as I wish we u.s. citizens had access to uncensored information about living conditions in the DPRK and elsewhere, it doesn't ultimately affect outcomes because we citizens have no ability to influence federal government policies. This is a demonstrable fact in both domestic and foreign affairs. Absent actual revolution, this will not change, which leaves sovereign nations with coordinated resistance and military defensive capability as their only rational strategy.

[@danishaffer934]

@plurabelle5 Okay you do realize that Breakthrough news is a US based media platform which is why it's US-centric. It's clearly made as a propaganda tool for a US audience. It's great that other people from other countries watch. But that doesn't invalidate my point about there being an omission of DPRK domestic politics though they include ROK domestic politics. It doesn't change that they squandered a whole show talking about US aggression opposed to socialist success in the DPRK.

[@LiterarischeAktion]

Just read their laws.

[@NotAPacifist825]

@@LiterarischeAktion do you have a reliable English language source?

[@TheReaper-ep2cq]

As a Korean, I can tell you that life in the DPRK is much worse than life in the South. They can speak badly about their government, they have barely enough food to feed themselves, their mandatory military service is 5-8 years, basics like electricity, running water, and phones are a luxury, etc.

[@SameAsAnyOtherStranger]

Exiled by the U.S. = globally economically insignificant. Put yourself in their shoes. You would be asking to sign up for the BRIICS economy.

[@lealyan]

👍

[@TheReaper-ep2cq]

You know I see a lot of people saying that the US should pull out of Korea and that the US is the reason why there is no reunification. I a way there are correct. In 1950 North Korea was about take control of all of Korea. The US stepped in and made sure that did not happen. Now I am seeing a lot of people mostly Americans saying that the US should pull out and that they are doing more harm then good. As a Korean I can say that the majority of South Korean's want an American military presence in South Korea. The US military presence is the only things deterring North Korea from invading. If the US pulls out or even lessens their military presence then North Korea might jump on the opportunity to invade.

[@justgivemethetruth]

How many times do we know of where the US threatened nuclear attack somewhere?

[@medicuswashington9870]

Empower the United Nations and the International Criminal Court.

[@tompham637]

These two organizations are the puppets of the US.

[@robertrichard6107]

Even MacArthur told JFK to never have a land war in Asia. They thought they stopped the invasion of Taiwan in the 1950's with the USN in the Straights of Taiwan. But Mao Zedong sent the PLA north to Korea which ruined MaCarthur's career. He got shit canned by Truman, for crossing 38th parallel. The CIA was used to provoke the war and Truman wanted to set it up as a UN Police Action. The CIA knew MacArthur would go into North Korea after Inchon success and they would have either a MacArthur or Eisenhower presidency by '53. That's what the CIA wanted. Eisenhower could have chosen either party to become president he was so well thought of, but when Truman canned MacArthur, Ike joined the Grand Oily Party. Ike threatened to use Atom bombs on presidential campaign trip to Korea!

[@stephencunningham6557]

The US Vampire Squid will just ignore it

[@dnickaroo3574]

The UN is mostly controlled by the US. The ICC is a NATO Court - Slobodan Milosevic died in prison in 2004. In 2015 the ICC stated that it had NO EVIDENCE against him. The ICC did what they were told - They are part of the West’s propaganda machine.

[@mohannair5671]

There should be an effort to drmilutattusatiin, not just drnu vlearisation!!!!!

[@AnneliedeWet]

Will Kim Jong Un deliver us?

[@DataJYdocs]

.🔍👌

[@justgivemethetruth]

Terrible audio, lots of noise, difficult to make out.

[@michael511128]

He had too many programs running on the computer.

[@justgivemethetruth]

I want to say that I am strongly interested in Socialism and most Left-oriented issues. I have been all my life to my detriment and stigmatization in most cases if I open my mouth and talk about it. One thing bothers me and keeps me at bay and relatively half-hearted with Socialist/Leftist organizations is that the Socialist agenda, and discussion often gets mixed in or overshadowed by other political issues that, at least in my mind, have nothing to do with Socialism or Leftist issues, like this thing about North Korea, but mostly about the Arab-Israeli issue. I don't mean this so much as a criticism about an informative program about North Korea in this case, though I really do not care much for North Korea, either pro or con. I don't think it is an important issue to me, and the Americans and even Westerners. I think issues like this, where Socialists are associated or made to appear to be on the side of North Korea or the Palestinians keep the Left down and stigmatize the whole movement. Israel is one of the most advanced countries in the world. They are democratic and socialistic in many ways. Palestinians are the opposite of that. They are a militant society ruled by force and money channeled to them by Iran and midguided Westerners and they are stuck in the past, in a cycle of tyranny and violence - not just from Israel. They refuse to move on and indeed they are still committing violence against Israel that is rarely if ever reported on. Recently for the first time I subscribed, no money involved, to an Israeli paper, and realized that every week and almost every day it seemed there was Palestinian violence directed at Israeli citizens, and yet it is only Palestinian injuried or deaths that are ever reported on. Maybe I'm wrong, and I don't know because we never get a glance inside Palestine at its government or life day to day, or who they are, not to mention the violence rule of Lebanon by Hezbollah and their continually growing threat of weapons and violence towards Israel. My gut says there is some irrationality here, that makes me think that many Socialist and Leftist groups are fake or misguided from the inside to associate to issues and groups that are negative to many if not most Westerners/Americans and it is yet another way the Right-wing maintains power and disempowers and badjackets the Left. I really resent Socialist and Leftist groups defocusing on the issues at home to complain about the likes of North Korea or Palestine when there are plenty of important issues to report on and discuss that might have the effect of raising support for Socialism and the Left. I joined this channel because Brian Becker was a voice I came to respect on Socialist issues, but having been a member for a month now I am cancelling my membership because there is not very much content, virtually no interaction or discussion, and in my one month sample this video really distorts the clear issues I want to see discussed. When I think about how much money is sucked up and goes to our "Right-wing Corporate Hierarchy" it occurs to me that they can determine what the Left says and how it is viewed, like they also seem to control the Democratic Party. Maybe I am too much of a purist, but these basic issues need to be address locally before I care a wit about North Korea of Palestine, or some of the other issues. I would even be interested in Cuba, Venezuela, and South America as they seem to be stuggling without recognition by you guys to be more Socialist. It would be much better for you to report on the challenges, the successes and the failures of Socialists in our hemisphere.

[@mildreduposton]

The Palestinians had their land stolen by the British and the imperialist colonialist farce known as the UN. The US is the only reason that the Zionist occupiers remain to this day. You are clearly duped by msm and your own choices to not connect the dots to the US death machine and anti socialist forces. MSM over-reports violence against Zionists and it is imperative that sources like BreakThrough focus on the stories that are ignored, including those about armed resistance to a fascist system(s). If you actually believe that the Zionist occupier government in Palestine is somehow 'socialist' consider that they steal more lands and goods from the Palestinians, and exploit their labor in an apartheid system. This is not socialism, it is violent and deadly theft, which is how Colonialist governments become 'advanced' as you say. Telling the Palestinians to 'move on' is so utterly insulting to the people brutally assassinated by the Zionists and Imperialist forces everywhere. Please educate yourself, and understand that the struggles of resistance to global oligarchic capitalism are all our struggles if we are truly socialists. 'Workers of the World Unite,' has real meaning and truth, and if you truly believe that then you will open your eyes and mind. Yes local struggles are important too, but they can't be our only struggles and they are not disconnected from the global system of repression coordinated by the ruling class.

[@justgivemethetruth]

@@mildreduposton I am not saying the Palestinians are not aggrieved, like almost everyone else and their ancestors in the history of the planet. You don't have to make that case to me. And you don't have to call me names or attack me personally for my opinion. An opinion you did not bother to read and comprehend, by the way. I feel like engaging with you on a discussion of this is going to go all over the place and just make you more irate than you already sound. Another fallacy you engage in is thinking you are righteous just by virtue of being you, and telling me to go educate myself when you have no idea of how educated I am - just because I made you mad by disagreeing with your point of view. I'll agree to go educate myself further if you agree to try to understand the reality of what I said, and maybe just every once in a while question your beliefs and try a reality check. My main point is exactly what your comment demonstrates, that as socialists, or proclaimed socialists, we should be agreeing with each other and moving to on the massive project management issue of trying to change the world for the better. Not disagreeing over either side of an issue that has nothing to do with socialism, and is a very minor issue. I hope at some point you might see what I mean. But just for the heck of it, I will say this about the Palestinian issue. If the Palestinians believe they are being exploited, then should go on strike. They should stop and re-target their complaints at something they can actually do something about if they got aligned and focused ... and that is their own oligarchs and the source of the income that sustains them. That is just my opinion and I think it should have nothing at all to do with my socialist struggle in my own country. I don't think the Palestinians are part of that or help with that.

[@mildreduposton]

​@@justgivemethetruth Stop projecting onto me. You are self righteous in your attitudes that you believe you know better than Palestinians as to the content against their struggle against US and proxy Imperialism, which IS a part of true Socialist struggle. Your bullshit gaslighting trying to claim I'm 'irate' or whatever is going to go nowhere with me. Your words to me make me feel like you're not truly interested in uniting with Socialists. Why don't you try a 'reality check' and pull your head out of your ass once in awhile. Why would I ever agree with someone who naively claims that the Palestinians should 'go on strike' as if they haven't been resisting oppression for decades. If I were into conspiracies I would say you're a shitlib/Zionist 'both sides' plant, but that would probably be giving you too much credit. Finally, your gaslighting is evidence that you have no salient solutions just claims that 'we' socialists should unite despite your glaring disregard for the struggles of the oppressed. You claim that I was insulting while at the same time insulting people who dare to disagree with you the DPRK is fascist or whatever calling them 'dolts.' How do you expect to unite with people when you have a lack of understanding and accept the lines that US imperialist media feeds you?

[@justgivemethetruth]

@@mildreduposton 9 times out of 10 when someone talks about projection they don't know what it is and are just trying to use to defend themselves when they have no clear point. Same with the self-righeousness accusation. You didn't read and understand my point did you. You are so wedded to making the Palestinian issue part of the American, Socialist movement you don't really care if it takes down the whole thing. I don't care if you agree with me or not once you've actually read and understood what I wrote, but you just hear a negative word about the Palestinians and go on the offensive accusing me of all kinds of things - but totally avoiding the issue. The thing is I don't care if you love the Palestinians or are a Palestinian other than I feel sorry for you - but you and the Palestinian cause have nothing to do with the American Progressive or Socialist movement ... and to try to wedge in there by force is true gaslighting.

[@justgivemethetruth]

As a socialist myself ... this makes me so sad. Such a bad idea as the Socialist Channel to make cozy with North Korea ... what a dolt! I understand the issue with North Korea after WWII, but today with the lunatics in charge, and then to say that the Korean people do not want to be occupied? South Korea is doing great, and they are hardly occupied. The only reason NK is fighting is because their dictator scares the hello our of them.

[@supernsansa]

Have you ever considered that the picture the mainstream media has painted of the DPRK may not be accurate? Hardly any of their claims are sourced and the so-called "journalists" who write this garbage are only interested in making the west's rivals look as bad as possible.

[@justgivemethetruth]

@@supernsansa Yeah, I have considered that. You're right that there is pitifully little we in the West, or in my own case America, know about what goes on in North Korea. Same situation with the Palestinians, or Venenzuelans, or many other countries or issues that Americans don't know much about. That's my point that you are missing. There is only so much room in people's brains and lives for political worries and understanding. To spend it reporting on North Korea is a total waste. A socialist channel or podcast should stay in its lane - assuming it actually wants to be helpful to inform and promote socialism and not just attract people who want to rave about unrelated issues and drive other people away.

[@LiterarischeAktion]

Bruh

[@justgivemethetruth]

@@LiterarischeAktion Yeah, what?

[@legendaryblood1937]

You consider yourself a Socialist but you instead support South Korea because it is portrayed as a "wealthy" nation rather than supporting North Korea which is actually a Socialist state? I understand the lack of infos about them but have you also wondered why western medias are extremely active at demonizing it as a "Totalitarian" ruled by a Dictator Nation? Ruled by Kim? Of course you can't see anything good about the North in Social Media because the west doesn't want you to know how well they're doing.

[@blacktx1873]

What about the haircut? I thought all guys have to take the same haircut which the president of north korea has.

[@toomuchadam875]

Dude, I know, like why is North Korea so weird, right? /s shoutouts to Hakim and his video on DPRK.

[@supernsansa]

That has been proven to be false. Most of the outlandish claims made about the DPRK are unsubstantiated or even complete lies.

[@TheReaper-ep2cq]

actually it's the opposite the North Korea have to choose from a few different hair styles. But their leader's hair cut is one they cannot choose.

[@boondocks123o]

I appreciate this topic was talked about but I have to criticize Brian Becker here when he says North Korea was invaded. That is simply false and you are doing a great disservice to leftists like myself by creating a patently false narrative of the conflict.

[@casteretpollux]

Simulated invasion.

[@GuyWhoLikesTheSnarkies1435]

Quite literally the whole Korea had declared independence and the establishment of People's Republic of Korea by the end of WW2, shortly before US began to occupy southern side of Korea and eventually in the course of time, interfered the southern politics and illegally installed puppet leadership. It wasn't the northern side which crossed the 38th parallel first, it was the US-Korean force on the US-occupied side that started the provocation and crossed the line. Even if we're supposed to believe that the northern side were the invader, they'd still be justified of their action because they were exercising de facto rights to defend their independence and sovereignty over Korea. They're the only sub-national entity represented the PRK, the de facto holder of the ownership of the national polity and as proven by the course of history, they had every rights to reclaim back the southern side as one of them.

[@boondocks123o]

@@GuyWhoLikesTheSnarkies1435 No they didn't have a right. The U.S had no intention of starting a korean war, that is a fact. Plus, Kim il sung was never voted into power he was installed to power by Stalin. He had no legitimate rule over the south.

[@robertrichard6107]

After the successful war provoking by the CIA and Inchon landing by MacArthur, MacArthur crossed 38th parallel and went to the PRC border threatening to use nukes in China. He was promptly thrown back down the peninsula by the PLA. The CPC had changed their mind about getting Taiwan back right away. And Truman had MacArthur releaved by Ridgeway.

[@boondocks123o]

@@robertrichard6107 I'm not disputing anything you're saying. I'm simply stating the fact that the North invaded the south. That is a fact and it's a shame that there's a contingency on the left that refuses to agree with this fact.