The Giant and Jack, or, The USA lectures N. Korea about Nuclear Arms

It embarrassed me to read mainstream western Statements on the N Korean missile tests. I include the CPUSA Statement in the mainstream reactions.

For long years, N Korea has called for a replacement of the Cold War truce with a peace treaty that would permit a normalisation of relations with the USA. Washington has refused to sign any such peace treaty, and so remains technically at war with North Korea for the past 60 years.

The USA maintains 10,000 nuclear warheads and performs regular extensive tests with the most hi-tech weaponry in the world. Moreover the USA has launched aggressive predatory war after war, as well as multiple actions of nuclear blackmail, campaigns of economic destabilization illegal covert actions and coup d'etat.

Yet the US military imperial machine in Washington is seen by the "reasonable men" of the bourgeoisie as the "responsible" power while North Korea is portrayed as a wicked rogue state for only testing their very elementary, small arsenal. And apparently because US imperialism has a new leader the international community is no longer to focus on the continuing objective character of the USA as the centre of .

I ask those who make this counsel why 2 Million Pakistanis are fleeing displaced and homeless at Obama's Command? Is this not imperialism? Is the new heightened war in Afghanistan not an imperialist "WAr of Choice" launched by Obama? Is the maintenance of 50,000 troops of occupation in Iraq not an imperialist policy? Is the failure to bring a formal Inquiry into the Bush-Cheney administration not a political calculation that sends a message of collusion and timidity regarding fascism and war-crimes? Other "irrelevant" issues such as the USA's winking/cooperating in the maintenance of Israel's 200+ Nuclear Missiles are seen as "distractions" from the threat at hand according to the Ruling Class and their mouthpieces."Distractions" as in: "don't distract us, we're screwing N. Korea"...

Washington’s repeated threats of economic and military aggression have given N Korea a basic life and death choice: Acquire Arms you can use as a leverage with the Imperialists, or be decimated.