"The Spreading Disaster of War, Kim Jong-un is at War" (Sand…
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"The Spreading Disaster of War, Kim Jong-un is at War" (Sand Times, 02.07.205)
https://www.sandtimes.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=1471
War is not stopping in Europe and the Middle East. Rather, it is spreading. It is already an international war.
Except for the parties who have to experience the every bloody second and minute where life and death intersect, other countries and people on Earth have no particular feelings, as if they are watching a computer war game. It is a story of another country.
Why are humans like this? Even after experiencing two world wars in which tens of millions died and hundreds of millions suffered, they are preparing for war again and fighting war.
They are not satisfied even though they have developed and possessed weapons that can completely destroy the entire Earth dozens of times. They are fighting to have more destructive and efficient weapons.
The national leader sends his own citizens, conscripted or volunteered, to the battlefield in the name of the fatherland, nation, justice, ideology, and God, with the authority he has. Of course, he himself is safe.
The citizens must head to the battlefield, knowing full well that they could die. This creates countless families’ tragedies and sorrows.
Do humans really not learn from history?
This is not someone else’s business. Half of the citizens of Korea, the citizens of North Korea, are dying right now.
Dictator Kim Jong-un is making money by sending his citizens to the battlefield. He is using that money to keep his regime alive. He is acquiring technology for weapons development.
The British Defense Intelligence (DI) estimated on June 15 that North Korean casualties in the Kursk region of Russia would be more than 6,000, more than half of the deployed troops. Despite this, Kim Jong-un agreed with Putin to send additional troops.
World-renowned peace scholar Prof. Ekkehart Krippendorff said that there are two truths in the world.
One is that the first application and use of technology developed and invented by mankind is in the field of weapons. They created more efficient, effective, and destructive weapons.
The other is that mankind did not just store the weapons they created in storage, but used them in actual combat at least once.
In war, armaments are essential. When a country or an alliance of countries increases its armaments, the common argument is the ‘action-reaction theory.’ This is the logic that because the opponent or hypothetical enemy has certain weapons or armaments, the country must also respond to them.
However, in reality, they go much further than this, and the following logics are used as a justification for this.
First, as the ‘worst case scenario,’ a country always assumes the worst case scenario when establishing its military policy. When developing a weapon system, it must assume that the enemy country will soon develop a weapon system that is equivalent or superior to it, and it must develop another new weapon. In the end, regardless of the intentions or reality of the hypothetical enemy, the country continues to increase its own armament.
Second, as a ‘follow-on effect’, a weapon system has its limits in utility and therefore must be replaced periodically with a new one. Once a weapon system is developed, the next generation of weapons must be continuously researched and developed to ensure that the latest weapons are always available. As a result, research and development are continuously conducted.
Meanwhile, in order to further justify these two claims, continuous political propaganda and public opinion formation are carried out domestically. Researchers related to military technology are encouraged to feel pride in developing weapons for peace, or are required to make efforts under the pretext that they are dedicated to the security of the country. In the process, people from all walks of life, such as scholars, experts, and journalists, participate in this rationalization process, and eventually the entire nation accepts it.
Meanwhile, in the past century, the ‘theory of world military order’ emerged as the causes of the phenomenon of strong military politicization and military buildup in emerging countries instead of direct war between the US and the Soviet Union, and the frequent wars in the Third World were investigated.
The world military order refers to a hierarchy established among countries according to their power, and within that hierarchy, military buildup and militarization are taking place. In other words, the world order refers to a world structure organized by military logic, or more precisely, organized by the logic of military alliances.
The world is divided into Eastern and Western blocs, and where each bloc forms a military alliance system, and within that alliance, policies are promoted to minimize discord between countries through a vertical hierarchy. The methods include economic ties and support, logistics and military technology support, various military education programs, joint training, unification and standardization of weapons and equipment specifications, joint command, military advisory group system, secret information exchange, joint strategy and tactics, and common security policy.
Accordingly, international cooperation is formed and promoted in accordance with the alliance system, while exchanges between blocs are minimized, hostile relations continue and deepen, and mutual militarization is promoted within that structure. Naturally, conflicts and wars in the periphery are accompanying phenomena.
The international situation and relations in which the theory of world military order emerged were the Cold War period of East and West bipolarity, when the US and the Soviet Union divided the world into two and confronted each other. It is clearly different from the current situation, where China has firmly established itself as one axis of the world and advanced democratic countries have formed the European Union (EU) to speak out.
Nevertheless, there is no change in the tendency to maintain the world order with military alliances as the axis, although it may not be a world military order.
Can we say that the wars in Europe and the Middle East have no effect on the Korean Peninsula?
The clear fact is that Kim Jong-un is continuing the wartime regime through propaganda and agitation, while at war, and is strengthening and improving the military power, including nuclear weapons, across land, sea, air, and space, and forming an axis of the world order with the North Korea-Russia military alliance.
Can we say that Kim Jong-un will just pile up the weapons he has developed and possessed in a warehouse? Won’t his allies try to coax him into using them?
Right now, Ukraine is the target of use and testing.
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Son, Gi-woong, president of the Korea Institute for Peace and Cooperation, received a doctorate in political science from the Free University of Berlin in 1992. After personally experiencing the collapse of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, he decided to devote himself to the unification of the Korean Peninsula.
He served at the Korea Institute for National Unification under the Prime Minister's Office, the only national unification-related research institute in Korea, until his retirement as president in 2018.
Dr. Son is currently also serving as president of the Korean Association of DMZ Studies, as well as president of the Seorak Peace and Unification Forum, chairman of the Promotion Committee for the DMZ United Nations University for Peace, co-president of the Korea-Germany Unification Forum jointly operated with the Hanns Seidel Foundation.
https://www.sandtimes.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=1471
War is not stopping in Europe and the Middle East. Rather, it is spreading. It is already an international war.
Except for the parties who have to experience the every bloody second and minute where life and death intersect, other countries and people on Earth have no particular feelings, as if they are watching a computer war game. It is a story of another country.
Why are humans like this? Even after experiencing two world wars in which tens of millions died and hundreds of millions suffered, they are preparing for war again and fighting war.
They are not satisfied even though they have developed and possessed weapons that can completely destroy the entire Earth dozens of times. They are fighting to have more destructive and efficient weapons.
The national leader sends his own citizens, conscripted or volunteered, to the battlefield in the name of the fatherland, nation, justice, ideology, and God, with the authority he has. Of course, he himself is safe.
The citizens must head to the battlefield, knowing full well that they could die. This creates countless families’ tragedies and sorrows.
Do humans really not learn from history?
This is not someone else’s business. Half of the citizens of Korea, the citizens of North Korea, are dying right now.
Dictator Kim Jong-un is making money by sending his citizens to the battlefield. He is using that money to keep his regime alive. He is acquiring technology for weapons development.
The British Defense Intelligence (DI) estimated on June 15 that North Korean casualties in the Kursk region of Russia would be more than 6,000, more than half of the deployed troops. Despite this, Kim Jong-un agreed with Putin to send additional troops.
World-renowned peace scholar Prof. Ekkehart Krippendorff said that there are two truths in the world.
One is that the first application and use of technology developed and invented by mankind is in the field of weapons. They created more efficient, effective, and destructive weapons.
The other is that mankind did not just store the weapons they created in storage, but used them in actual combat at least once.
In war, armaments are essential. When a country or an alliance of countries increases its armaments, the common argument is the ‘action-reaction theory.’ This is the logic that because the opponent or hypothetical enemy has certain weapons or armaments, the country must also respond to them.
However, in reality, they go much further than this, and the following logics are used as a justification for this.
First, as the ‘worst case scenario,’ a country always assumes the worst case scenario when establishing its military policy. When developing a weapon system, it must assume that the enemy country will soon develop a weapon system that is equivalent or superior to it, and it must develop another new weapon. In the end, regardless of the intentions or reality of the hypothetical enemy, the country continues to increase its own armament.
Second, as a ‘follow-on effect’, a weapon system has its limits in utility and therefore must be replaced periodically with a new one. Once a weapon system is developed, the next generation of weapons must be continuously researched and developed to ensure that the latest weapons are always available. As a result, research and development are continuously conducted.
Meanwhile, in order to further justify these two claims, continuous political propaganda and public opinion formation are carried out domestically. Researchers related to military technology are encouraged to feel pride in developing weapons for peace, or are required to make efforts under the pretext that they are dedicated to the security of the country. In the process, people from all walks of life, such as scholars, experts, and journalists, participate in this rationalization process, and eventually the entire nation accepts it.
Meanwhile, in the past century, the ‘theory of world military order’ emerged as the causes of the phenomenon of strong military politicization and military buildup in emerging countries instead of direct war between the US and the Soviet Union, and the frequent wars in the Third World were investigated.
The world military order refers to a hierarchy established among countries according to their power, and within that hierarchy, military buildup and militarization are taking place. In other words, the world order refers to a world structure organized by military logic, or more precisely, organized by the logic of military alliances.
The world is divided into Eastern and Western blocs, and where each bloc forms a military alliance system, and within that alliance, policies are promoted to minimize discord between countries through a vertical hierarchy. The methods include economic ties and support, logistics and military technology support, various military education programs, joint training, unification and standardization of weapons and equipment specifications, joint command, military advisory group system, secret information exchange, joint strategy and tactics, and common security policy.
Accordingly, international cooperation is formed and promoted in accordance with the alliance system, while exchanges between blocs are minimized, hostile relations continue and deepen, and mutual militarization is promoted within that structure. Naturally, conflicts and wars in the periphery are accompanying phenomena.
The international situation and relations in which the theory of world military order emerged were the Cold War period of East and West bipolarity, when the US and the Soviet Union divided the world into two and confronted each other. It is clearly different from the current situation, where China has firmly established itself as one axis of the world and advanced democratic countries have formed the European Union (EU) to speak out.
Nevertheless, there is no change in the tendency to maintain the world order with military alliances as the axis, although it may not be a world military order.
Can we say that the wars in Europe and the Middle East have no effect on the Korean Peninsula?
The clear fact is that Kim Jong-un is continuing the wartime regime through propaganda and agitation, while at war, and is strengthening and improving the military power, including nuclear weapons, across land, sea, air, and space, and forming an axis of the world order with the North Korea-Russia military alliance.
Can we say that Kim Jong-un will just pile up the weapons he has developed and possessed in a warehouse? Won’t his allies try to coax him into using them?
Right now, Ukraine is the target of use and testing.
-----------------------------------------------
Son, Gi-woong, president of the Korea Institute for Peace and Cooperation, received a doctorate in political science from the Free University of Berlin in 1992. After personally experiencing the collapse of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, he decided to devote himself to the unification of the Korean Peninsula.
He served at the Korea Institute for National Unification under the Prime Minister's Office, the only national unification-related research institute in Korea, until his retirement as president in 2018.
Dr. Son is currently also serving as president of the Korean Association of DMZ Studies, as well as president of the Seorak Peace and Unification Forum, chairman of the Promotion Committee for the DMZ United Nations University for Peace, co-president of the Korea-Germany Unification Forum jointly operated with the Hanns Seidel Foundation.
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