Reach out to North Korea, Chico State professor suggests
By LARRY MITCHELL – Staff Writer
Posted: 12/18/2010 12:03:11 AM PST
Chico State University professor James Matray opens the door to his office to talk about North…CHICO — Don’t call North Korea a “rogue nation.” That’s the advice of James Matray, a Chico State University history professor and an expert on American foreign relations in Asia. (cont read the ERonline story) END
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If this CSUC professor is an expert on foreign relations and teaching this crap to our young men and women, we’re in trouble!
North Korea IS A VICIOUS ROGUE NATION and it has been the sole instigator of countless atrocities both in South Korea and on the high seas. You don’t play nice with a rogue nation! They only understand force.
North Korea has a long standing pattern of outrageous and dangerous conduct, such as sending their spies and political agents into South Korea to disrupt whatever they can and selectively murder political opponents or kidnap or kill their own North Korean dissidents that have tried to escape their reach.
On January 28, 1968, North Korea hijacked the American Naval vessel, USS Pueblo, while it was patrolling in international waters. The Pueblo was lightly armed and it’s sole mission was to listen in on North Korea’s radio traffic. It was originally designed as a freighter, not a warship and it only carried two light machine guns that had to be removed from a storage locker before use. It was hardly a menacing warship, but it did carry something the Russian’s and their North Korean allies desperately wanted.
This was a clear act of war, but the North Koreans said it had violated their territorial waters and despite the contrary assertions of the Captain and crew, it’s true location at the time remained uncertain. Many years later we learned from high ranking defectors from within the former Soviet Spy agency the KGB, the North Koreans were actually acting on secret orders from them when the Pueblo was captured. NK took great pleasure in carrying out that mission and torturing our navy personnel to hide their real agenda.
They committed this criminal act to get their bloody hands on our top secret cipher machines… and ironically it was due to John Walk Jr., A Navy Cheif Petty Officer who was selling navy secrets to the USSR, The Soviets needed our cipher machine to make maximum use of Walker’s information.
and it was decided they had to steal a cipher machine by any means, it was that important. This was one of the Soviet’s most closely guarded secrets and it stayed buried in history until last year. (See Pueblo’s new Captain on right)
The Pueblo’s capture remains an open wound and if we have any honor left as a nation we should set things right. I feel very personally connected to that event and what those men went through because I served on a similar navy ship from 1966-67. What happened to the Pueblo’s crew was an act of war and it was swept away by trying to appease North Korea. We had no clue at the time it John Walker’s activities that caused this event – how do you diplomatically handle that one? Obviously, you don’t, but we tried and we were laughed at.
The hapless crew of Pueblo were merely in the wrong place at the wrong time and they were captured to enhance the USSR’s new espionage find that ironically went right back to a Navy Chief (Walker). Had someone with a little guts been our President at that time we would have retaliated by sinking our hijacked ship on display in the North Korean port of Pyongyang and also take out as many of Korea’s warships as we could find in that same harbor. Lybia’s Khadfy did far less and look how we responded to him! And it worked so well too.
Since the cessation of hostilities (open warfare) in the Korean War the North Koreans have repeatedly sneaked across the DMZ to murder American servicemen patrolling that area. They beheaded a us. army Lt. just to send us a message.
Most recently they have torpedoed and sunk a South Korean naval vessel and fired dozens or more heavy shells into a civilian populated island owned by South Korea. During all this S. Korea has been more than accommodating and for years we have extended a hand of friendship to North Korea.
Can you readers out here even begin to imagine how many innocent Korean people have died from starvation in order to provide luxuries for these despots and food for their massive million man army? It’s disgusting and barbaric!
Yet, here we are still trying to reach some sort of diplomatic accommodation. We’ve been trying this since the Korean War and so has South Korea!
It is amazing to me that this ridiculous CSUC professor thinks talking nice at this point will make all that history just go away and we can live happily ever after? Well, here’s a news flash for the professor… this is a rogue nation and it will continue to be as long as they are run by communist dictators.
They must be held accountable for their dirty, vile, cowardly deeds. They’re a black hearted regime that has justified evil too many times and they do it in the same way that all dictatorship do…they’re twisted, sick and narcissistic! It’s always somebody else’s provocation that forced them to kill and I am sick of us playing that game. I want to take them up on their acts of war. This family of ruthless, cold blooded killers… Kim Il-sung, Kim Il-jung and Mentally Ill-jung deserve nothing but a bullet through the brain. They are on the same level like Stalin, Ichman, Hitler, Pol Pot, etc.
This is why its so upsetting to read that our CSUC Professor is foolish enough to think we can speak soft, kindly words and in any way influence the NKPR. Politically correctness has no more effect on them than it did on Stalin, Mussolini, or Hitler.