North Korea

How can this be, even taking into account that North Korea concentrates resources in its military sector? Obviously, Americans are not getting the full story. In fact, the portrayal of North Korea’s savage tyrant as an isolated pariah with no allies is not just seriously flawed, it is completely inaccurate.

Far from being “alone,” the communist regime in North Korea has had friends in very high places from the beginning, and still does today. First and foremost, the regime is a puppet and close ally of the powerful communist dictatorship enslaving mainland China’s 1.3 billion people — a regime that is increasingly projecting its power globally. Adding insult to injury, the United Nations continues to shower aid on the regime in Pyongyang, often at U.S. taxpayer expense, even in acquiring sensitive military technology, all in spite of UN and U.S. government sanctions. The enemy, then, is us — or at least the globalist swamp pretending to speak for us.

A Communist Tool: China and Other Friends of Kim

Pyongyang’s most important ally, by far, is the communist dictatorship enslaving mainland China. Consider, first, the fact that Beijing continues to ship billions of dollars’ worth of goods to North Korea each year, providing most of its energy and consumption goods. All of that is in exchange for minerals, slave labor, coal, seafood, and raw materials. Operating through subsidiaries based in China, the North Korean regime also earns hard cash to prop itself up. In addition, it uses its front companies in China to access the global financial system. And it uses these “firms” to procure the technology and other needed components for weapons systems and the even the nuclear bombs that Kim is so fond of testing and that the establishment is so fond of hyperventilating about.

Beijing and the UN are fully aware of North Korea’s front companies in China, as is documented in UN reports and even in the globalist-minded establishment media outlets. Indeed, Beijing flagrantly violates the same UN sanctions on North Korea that it ostensibly claims to support as a member of the UN Security Council and has even voted for in the past.

The extremely close links between the communist dictatorships enslaving North Korea and mainland China are hardly secret. Even top officials boast about the ties in public. “The PRC [People’s Republic of China] and DPRK [the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea] are … in the relations of lips and teeth and the peoples and armies of the two countries have a blood-tied traditional relationship,” bragged General Xiong Guangkai, a top Chinese military and intelligence official with broad and flagrant ties to the regime in North Korea, in 1999.

Before his retirement, Xiong was a regular visitor to Pyongyang, with numerous military and intelligence analysts suggesting that he was a key conduit for the flow of military know-how and technology from Beijing  — almost all of it stolen from the West — to the supposedly rogue North Korean regime. In the infamous “Chinagate” scandal, the Clinton presidency was caught funneling sensitive U.S. military secrets to Beijing, some of which no doubt ended up in Pyongyang, in exchange for illegal campaign contributions from the Chinese. “I see the White House is like a subway,” said Johnny Chung, one of the key players involved in the scheme, about Bill Clinton’s presidency. “You have to put in coins to open the gates.”

This article appears in the August 21, 2017, issue of The New American. To download the issue and continue reading this story, or to subscribe, click here.

And in North Korea, Christians are “being hung on a cross over a fire, crushed under a steamroller, herded off bridges, and trampled underfoot”…

According to charity Aid to the Church in Need, at least 200,000 Christians have gone missing in North Korea since 1953 — many of those have been summarily executed. As to the specific treatment of those persecuted, the 2014 UN Commission of Inquiry report discovered that the North Korean regime has been guilty of “crimes against humanity.”

According to Christian Solidarity Worldwide, violent incidents against Christians include “being hung on a cross over a fire, crushed under a steamroller, herded off bridges, and trampled underfoot.”