{"id":269164,"date":"2017-04-27T16:59:29","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T20:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=269164"},"modified":"2020-11-13T15:48:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-13T20:48:09","slug":"new-spin-of-north-korea-syria-axis-of-evil-points-to-us-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/new-spin-of-north-korea-syria-axis-of-evil-points-to-us-war\/","title":{"rendered":"New spin of North Korea-Syria \u2018axis of evil\u2019 points to US war"},"content":{"rendered":"
RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n
Finian Cunningham is absolutely right: \u201csuch demonic US behavior should actually turn world attention to who exactly is the real axis of evil and number-one threat to peace.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

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US media reports this week blamed North Korea for having a dastardly role in an alleged chemical weapons massacre in Syria. As if the two countries could not be demonized enough. The latest spin of the \u201caxis of evil\u201d suggests Washington is hell-bent on war.<\/p>\n

Demonize, dehumanize, destroy. That\u2019s the logic being throttled by the Trump administration toward both North Korea and Syria. This week war hawk US Senator Lyndsey Graham after a dinner with President Trump\u00a0referred\u00a0to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as a\u00a0\u201cnutjob,\u201d\u00a0while Trump earlier\u00a0labeled\u00a0Syrian leader Bashar Assad an\u00a0\u201canimal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now the two\u00a0\u201cevil dictators\u201d\u00a0are bonded in US media reports for complicity in the alleged chemical weapons attack earlier this month in Syria\u2019s Idlib Province, where it is claimed Assad\u2019s armed forces dropped toxic munitions on civilians, killing up to 80.<\/p>\n

The supplier of the alleged chemical weapons in Syria is the\u00a0\u201cKim Jong-un regime\u201d\u00a0in North Korea, according to US reports.<\/p>\n

USA Today\u00a0claimed: \u201cThe horrors of the civil war in Syria have proved a blessing for North Korea. The regime of Kim Jong-un has made a killing from selling arms and ammunition to the regime of fellow dictator, Bashar Assad.\u201d It goes on to cite claims that a \u201ckey supplier\u201d of Syria\u2019s chemical weapons arsenal is the northeast Asian nation.<\/p>\n

Another publication, Defense One,\u00a0headlined: \u201cSyria\u2019s war has been a goldmine for North Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both outlets rely heavily on one source, Professor Bruce Bechtol, from Angelo State University, Texas, who is described as a \u201cNorth Korea expert.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bechtol is quoted as saying: \u201cI would be stunned, I would be surprised if the nerve agent used by the Assad regime on April 4 in Khan Sheikhoun [Idlib Province] was not supplied by North Korea.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, this so-called \u201cexpert\u201d doesn\u2019t really know. Professor Bechtol is making a conjecture. Reference to his past\u00a0research\u00a0on the subject of North Korea-Syria military links, in 2015, make sweeping assertions about how the two nations have collaborated on developing chemical weapons.<\/p>\n

Tellingly, the US \u201cacademic\u201d makes a prominent citation of the CIA and other intelligence agencies in his assessment of North Korea and Syria\u2019s military connections.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/386318-north-korea-us-chemical-weapons\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: Finian Cunningham is absolutely right: \u201csuch demonic US behavior should actually turn world attention to who exactly is the real axis of evil and number-one threat to peace.\u201d  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":282719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}