I
was confused by the Korean reaction to the missile defense initiative
by the United States. I knew that it was not a popular idea
among many in the United States who remembered Reagan's Star Wars
plan. I knew that people worried it would lead China to develop
more and more nuclear weapons to offer the same deterent the Soviet
Union had in the Cold War. But, I did not understand the level
of reaction in Korea.
Here is Green
Korea's take on it -- Green
Korea -- the enviornmental group:
The move by the fearful leader of the only global
power will callously snip off the newly blossoming hopes for peace
and reunification in the Korean peninsula. Korean people divided into
south and north will become one of innumerable sacrificial lambs brought
to the altar of U.S. ambitions.
President George W. Bush, in taking the world
into a new era of nuclear menace, urged the world and unnerved allies
to re-think the unthinkable, portraying the U.S. as a lonely global
superpower besieged by a fear of the potential for random terror or
blackmail by smaller nations.
Global
missile shield, otherwise known as NMD-TMD, will enable the U.S.
which has the most powerful and largest nuclear arsenal in the world
to neutralise opponents missiles, providing
the U.S. the freedom and capability to strike first without fearing
retaliation.
The Bush NMD looms as the most powerful
and singular offensive capacity that will simply discard
the balance of terror, which had enabled the tenuous peace of the
Cold War, as redundant. (So the US must allow a nation like
North Korea "freedom" to use ICBMs to nuke the States!!!)
Korean
people will resist the new Bush war-mongering initiative and accelerate
the peace and reunification process. We will step up the struggle
to prevent the forced-purchase of weapons of
mass destruction (???) and the
incorporation of the Korean peninsula into a playground of the President
Bush's arrogant hegemonic games.
Korean people will unite with all peace-loving people of the world
to frustrate the militaristic adventures and the insecure mentality
of hegemony-thriving Bush Administration to pave the way for real
peace in the Korean peninsula and the world that have long been victims
of superpower machinations.
