Who is Really Out to Blow up the Korean Peninsula?

May 3, 2010 (LPAC)—We are headed for a major potential crisis on the Korean peninsula in the immediate hours ahead, and Lyndon LaRouche has posed the question: Who is really behind this crisis?

The sudden war danger on the Korean peninsula began a month ago with the sinking of the South Korean Navy ship, Cheonan. An ongoing investigation into the explosion that split the ship in half and killed 46 sailors, has been conducted by the South Korean government, with international expert assistance, including from the U.S. Navy. Yesterday, South Korea's Minister of Defense, Kim Tae-Young, was interviewed on KBS national television, and vowed, those responsible for killing our soldiers must pay the price. An unnamed U.S. diplomat, interviewed this weekend in the Korean press, asserted that it is all but certain that the North Koreans carried out the attack. There is widespread speculation about the motives, if, indeed, the North Koreans did actually carry out the attack. According to senior South Korean government officials, the attack, if premeditated, may have been in retaliation for a naval confrontation that occurred in 2008, in which the North Koreans came out on the losing end.

On Friday, South Korean President Lee traveled to Shanghai, where he met with Chinese President Hu Jin-tao. The naval incident was the number one topic of discussion in their brief meeting. On Tuesday, in an unprecedented event, President Lee will chair a meeting with all of the top South Korean military commanders. The situation is on a hair-trigger, to say the least, despite statements from officials in the Blue House that there is no desire for a military confrontation with the North.

It is in precisely this context that LaRouche posed his question. "This is not just North Korea," LaRouche said. "What is it? I believe that the authorship of this crisis is elsewhere. It has the smell of the British. Why? Because their operations are always aimed at creating perpetual chaos. I am looking at chaos, not revenge, as the driving motive behind the engineering of this crisis. And the chaos factor is only coming from one location, globally: From the British. Clearly, there are some intermediaries involved here, but only the British Empire has a strong motive, history, and capacity for provoking permanent chaos," LaRouche said.

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