Korean despot
Kim Jong-un: Apparently insecure that North Koreans
may
be forgetting their
'class consciousness' and anti-Americanism, he visited
the Sinchon Museum
of American Atrocities to boost the effort to educate
workers and Korean
Workers' Party members alike.
Kim Jong-un Calls Americans 'Cannibals' and 'Homicides' (The Hankyoreh, South Korea)
"The
massacres in Sinchon committed by the imperialist aggressors of the United
States show beyond doubt that they are cannibals and homicides, seeking
pleasure in slaughter. … The purpose of my visit [to the Sinchon Museum of
American Atrocities] is to further enforce education about class consciousness
and opposing U.S. imperialism. This is to create the political conditions needed
to arouse tens of millions of troops and prepare citizens for a decisive
confrontation with the United States. Holding illusions about the enemy will lead
only to death. … This could result in renunciations of the revolution and
eventually spoil it."
-- Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un
After the Third Committee of the U.N. General Assembly adopted
a resolution calling for the country’s human rights situation to be
referred to the International Criminal Court, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has personally expressed his opposition to the
resolution - and to the United States.
Immediately after the resolution passed, North Korea had
various government organizations, including the Foreign Ministry and the
National Defense Commission, threaten an “ultra-hard-line counterattack.”
Now, Kim himself has come out and directly criticized the U.S.
sparking concern that the North's pushback could lead to military action.
On Nov. 25, the state-run Korea Central News Agency quoted
Kim as he "gave field guidance" to the Sinchon
Museum of American Atrocities in South Hwanghae
Province. The museum was built to buttress its claims that the U.S. military massacred
a fourth of the residents of the area during the Korean War - about 35,000
people, and is a center for obtaining an anti-American education.
Alluding to claims that during the Korean War, U.S. forces in
Sinchon County slaughtered
large numbers of innocent people, Kim recalled the day in 1998 when he
visited the museum with [his father] Generalissimo Kim Jong-il.
Walking around the main building past the tombs of 400 mothers and 102 children,
he said, "The massacres in Sinchon committed by the imperialist aggressors
of the United States show beyond doubt that they are cannibals and homicides,
seeking pleasure in slaughter.”
“The purpose of my visit is to further enforce education about
class consciousness and opposing U.S. imperialism. This is to create the
political conditions needed to arouse tens of millions of troops and prepare
citizens for a decisive confrontation with the United States. Holding illusions
about the enemy will lead only to death. … This could result in renunciations of
the revolution and eventually spoil it,” Kim said.
"The arch-villain of aggression is U.S. imperialism, which
came about through plunder and aggression," he pointed out. "The very
nature and brutality of the aggressor will forever remain unchanged. If anything
has changed, it is that it is more insidious and crafty in its method of
satisfying its lust for aggression. … Intensifying the anti-imperialist,
anti-U.S. and class education is vital to prospects for the Korean revolution
and the destiny of the country.
"It is more urgent than ever to intensify class
education, as the younger generation, which must be the driving force of the
revolution, has never experienced exploitation, oppression or the stern trials
of war. Class education mustn't be delayed or neglected for a moment. Rather, it
should be deepened and intensified and conducted on a permanent basis. As fish cannot live without water. Similarly, without
anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. and class education, it is impossible to imagine the
sovereignty and dignity of the people or the value of human beings.
Kim called for recreating the Sinchon Museum and building
other class education centers around the country, where evidence and data are scientifically
displayed and with all the facilities and conveniences necessary to accommodate
visitors, all of which he said are essential to deepening class education.
"Museum visits will be meticulously organized, including
meetings for pledging revenge at the gun powder depot, a tomb in Pamnamu Village where 400 mothers and 102 children are
entombed. Such places testify to the enemy's atrocities, and should be highlighted
to help nurse a surging hatred and revenge-seeking among visitors," he
said.
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It is exceedingly rare for a North Korean leader make direct
and open verbal attacks on the U.S., and they appear to reflect great dissatisfaction
with the ramping up of America's human rights offensive - even after the North
signaled sincerity about improving ties by inviting U.S. Director of National
Intelligence James Clapper, who traveled to Pyongyang to collect two detained
Americans.
With Kim himself advocating a “decisive confrontation” with
the United States, it seems increasingly likely that for the time being, a cold
wind will blow on relations. Even worse, some analysts think since Kim Jong-un has personally expressed displeasure, North Korean
government agencies may be scrambling offer the firmest response.
An official at the Unification Ministry, on condition of
anonymity, said: “Since this is a matter of 'supreme dignity,' the military will
find it difficult not to take some kind of action, if only to demonstrate loyalty
toward him.”
As a consequence, the launching of balloons into North Korea
filled with propaganda leaflets, which in recent months has boosted tensions,
is likely to become even more dangerous.
“Out of consideration for China and Russia, North Korea might
refrain from a fourth nuclear test or long-range missile launch. There is every
reason to think, however, that it might act to increase military tensions by crossing
the Northern Limit Line (NLL), launching a short- or
mid-range missile, testing its new rocket launcher, or firing at propaganda
balloons launched into the North,” said Peace Network President Jung Uk-sik.
