Though the annual military drill-turned war hysteria surround US relations on the Korean Peninsula usually flies under the radar, Americans are pretty big into the whole North Korea thing this time around, according to new polls and data relating to them.
Pew Research showed large amounts of the American population are following North Korea “very closely” and take the threat “very seriously.” Google data shows a sudden flurry of Google searches about North Korea in the last couple of weeks, jumping it past usually popular searches for Beyonce, who the Washington Post showed has consistently been a more popular topic than the reclusive nation.
Unfortunately, that interest is a mile wide and an inch deep, as despite all of these Google searches Pew’s poll also shows a large number of Americans remain completely ignorant on the matter, with roughly half of the US population believing that North Korea can nuke them right now, and that same number believing that it is going to do so.
The polling data appears to be the consequence of constant unanalysed reporting of North Korea’s threats, published in their own state media and echoed across the world, coupled with the Obama Administration’s response, which isn’t to point out their technological inability of North Korea to do any of these things, but is rather to claim dubious military capabilities of their own that will totally counter them.
North Korea threatens attack with nuclear weapons they don’t have on targets they can’t hit, and the US retorts that they will use a missile defense system they don’t have to shoot down the missiles that aren’t coming. The story is completely full of holes, but apparently the narrative can still hold an audience, at least for a few weeks.
The us media is a entity of USA government.., their job is to lie about matters doing all they can to fool more of the American people, on CNN, Pearce Morgan show.., they say that: in every house in North Korea there is a speaker on the wall weakling up people on certain time and start brain washing them by communists propaganda.., well if that's the case at least the north korean people get something to think about.., what do the American tv gives the American people.., sexism, dally murdering news, gun violent, police brutality and repeat of the same.., from 6am to 11pm.., now that's brain washing in modernized version.
If most americans knew where North Korea is located on a map they would not think that the NK could nuke them at any giving time.Lets face the facts you ignoramus americans, when was the last time you saw a NK war ship or plane in the gulf of mexico.?
AntiWar has done a fair job in keeping this a 'hot' topic. I believe it worthy of concern when any country, large or small, threatens to turn another into a sea of fire. Are you suggesting the U.S. shrug its shoulders and wait until NK has full capability to deliver a nuclear warhead to any place in the world?
Sorry, but if a small kid, armed with a handgun, threatens to shoot me or my family, I would take that very seriously.
Guest,
The US helped create the situation in the first place, when it split the Korean peninsula down the middle with the USSR and each of the two emerging superpowers installed its own pet military dictatorship.
Then the US helped maintain the situation for 63 years of cold war — armistice without peace, billions of dollars and tens of thousands of troops to keep it that way.
While the north's prose is more purple than that of the South or the US, there is no substantive difference in its meaning. The two sides have been claiming to have the bigger penis, and to be about to beat the other across the face with said penis, for more than six decades.
The right thing for the US to do would be to inform South Korea of a date certain beyond which it will be entirely responsible for its own defense, and then stick to that date.
I know how to duck and cover ! I learned how to do that when the Russkies were supposed to arrive in the USA any day, and take my religion, AND TV set away from me ! Ha Ha.
Looks like the Media-Pentagon propaganda mill is working its magic again. Americans are such dupes.