{"id":73905,"date":"2017-08-10T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73905"},"modified":"2017-08-10T09:36:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T13:36:06","slug":"washington-post-blames-reagan-for-norks-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73905","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post blames Reagan for Norks’ nukes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Benjamin R. Young, a PhD candidate in Korean history at George Washington University, writes a column in the Washington Post entitled “The Reagan-era invasion that drove North Korea to develop nuclear weapons<\/a>” in which he blames President Reagan’s invasion of Grenada in 1983 for North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. Apparently, the North Koreans had military ties to the distant Caribbean island;<\/p>\n

Shortly after establishing diplomatic relations with Grenada in 1979, Kim Il Sung offered large amounts of free technical and agricultural assistance to Bishop\u2019s regime. From sending tractors and cement to helping build the national stadium in the capital city of St. George\u2019s, North Korea spared no expense in assisting its Grenadian allies.<\/p>\n

The North Koreans also provided a large cache of weapons to Grenada. According to documents captured by American military forces during the invasion, when Bishop visited North Korea in April 1983, the two countries signed a secret military agreement. North Korea\u2019s \u201cfree offer of military assistance\u201d gave the Grenadians 12 million U.S. dollars worth of weapons and ammunition, which included 1,000 automatic rifles, 30 heavy machine guns and 50 rocket-propelled grenade launchers. Richard Jacobs, Grenada\u2019s ambassador to the Soviet Union, remarked at the time of the U.S. invasion, \u201cWe have the best Soviet, Czech and North Korean military equipment; we will win the fight, no question about it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Mr. Young makes good points, but the hermit kingdom isn’t the poor little political entity threatened by the US hegemonic power he’d like us to believe. The North Koreans have been paranoid forever. Just a few years before<\/a> the Grenada invasion, Americans had been murdered by North Korean soldiers when the Americans were trimming a poplar tree that blocked their view of the North. <\/p>\n

In a 1984 conversation with East German leader Erich Honecker, Kim Il Sung lamented, \u201cEvery year the American armies conduct a major military exercise. They conducted these exercises even before the Reagan era, but since Reagan took office this has grown.\u201d Kim Il Sung also fretted to Honecker that Reagan would never withdraw U.S. troops from South Korea and the American military presence would impede his plans for the reunification of the Korean peninsula. Kim Il Sung perceived Reagan\u2019s combination of staunch support for South Korea and militant rhetoric, on top of the invasion of Grenada, as a sign that North Korea might be next.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

North Korea also started a nuclear weapons program for Syria that was discontinued by the Israelis in 2007’s Operation Orchard<\/a>. How was that related to Grenada? <\/p>\n

The truth is that President Clinton freed up cash for nuclear research in North Korea when he and Jimmy Carter provided freebies for the North. North Korea wants nuclear weapons, not for defense but because they view themselves as a world power, deserving the respect that they don’t get from the rest of the world.<\/p>\n

The North Koreans want nuclear weapons to blackmail the world, just like Iran wants nuclear weapons to rule the Middle East. It’s too easy to blame the US foreign policy, particularly that of Republican Presidents, so that’s why the Left uses it as an excuse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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