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Radio War Nerd EP #127 — The North Korea Peace Freakout w/Tim Shorrock (Patreon)

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2018-03-30 16:50:08
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2023-06

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Guest: Tim Shorrock, journalist and author 

Recorded March 26, 2018

Veteran investigative reporter Tim Shorrock joins RWN again to make sense of historic Korea peace moves by North and South—and, to the shock and horror of the DC Establishment, Donald Trump. Tim cuts through liberal America's chauvinistic assumptions about Koreans and explains how they have been the main drivers of the peace movement . . . He also gives insight into the Darth Bolton appointment, and the US intelligence agencies' role in Trump's decision to meet with Kim Jong-un. Later, Tim helps recover lost history about the bloody suppression of the Jeju Island uprising 70 years ago, when US-backed South Korean auxiliaries massacred tens of thousands of South Korean citizens . . . 

At 1:35:55 the War Nerd & Ames look at the week in wars: the Skripal novichok poisoning & the Cold War remake . . . Latest in Syria: YPG abandons Afrin to Turkish forces, Erdogan looking to take more territory; Syria government forces retake about all of East Ghouta—Deraa next . . . Third anniversary of US-Saudi war on Yemen—Yemen fires Burkans into Riyadh . . . Wars heating up again in Democratic Republic of Congo, site of deadliest war in last 70 years . . .  

Tim Shorrock previously appeared on Radio War Nerd EP 20 and EP 62. Follow Tim on twitter and at The Nation and read his blog and buy his book!

Total time: 2:17:33

Direct link to this episode's mp3 here 


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Anonymous

For anyone curious about the plague Mark mentioned, the book "Justinian's Flea" is a good read.

Anonymous

Tim Shorrock has a good sense of humor. Haha. He probably doesn't get to laugh with other journalists very often.

Anonymous

The war nerd is risen! he is risen indeed!

Anonymous

The Cain-Abel metaphor is put to good use in Philip Gourevitch's We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, a brilliant and powerful book on the Rwandan genocide (the best one, for my money). His book on Abu Ghraib was also great. Would love yo hear you guys speak with him.

Anonymous

you look at those agreed to denuclearize, what happened to them, and you look at china.....whether 45 will be played, we'll see (disclaimer, not a fan of maddow). oh and, this: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/podcasts/the-daily/north-korea-william-perry-negotiation.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fthe-daily&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=podcasts&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=search&amp;contentPlacement=6&amp;pgtype=collection" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/10/podcasts/the-daily/north-korea-william-perry-negotiation.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fthe-daily&amp;action=click&amp;contentCollection=podcasts&amp;region=stream&amp;module=stream_unit&amp;version=search&amp;contentPlacement=6&amp;pgtype=collection</a> thanks for the enlightenment on the lead up to Korean war.

Anonymous

Wow I can't believe that Mark Ames doesn't think this was a false flag by the Alglo axis to try and halt Nord Stream 2. And they got close. Germany did expel diplomats &amp; then approved NS2. Letviniko's dad just went on RT 2 days ago and said he no longer believes that the Russian govt had anything to do with his sons death. He thinks it was Western intel agencies

Anonymous

It's almost like the more brazen and obvious Western axis false flags get, the more public is skeptical, the more contrarian the corporate media's view becomes. Peter Hitchens also has credentials on Russia. He lived there too. And he originally thought that the west did it. But then he took the temperature of the narrative &amp; determined that most ppl think it was a false flag. So he switched. He also thinks Russia did it now.

eh

The beatification of Carter even among people who should know better is honestly baffling. Almost every dirty war Reagan ramped up was originally funded by Carter's administration, and his reaction to Calley being sentenced for My Lai back when he was governor of Virginia was to instate "American Fighting Man's Day".

eh

Also, do you have any guests lined up who could talk about the civil war in Turkey in the 70s? It seems like the last time the left was a serious threat to the Turkish state and also when the US funding for the Grey Wolves etc as part of Gladio peaked, so it'd be interesting to hear from someone initiated

Anonymous

We (my family) got about an hour into this last night. As always, there's some amazing information and analysis, but we were all baffled by one thing, which is the entire panel's reaction to the reaction to Trump meeting Kim Jong Un. Sure, nobody in my family thinks a nuclear war would be likely, but Dolan, Ames, and Shorrock all breeze past the possibility that someone might react negatively to such a meeting because (1) Kim and Trump spent plenty of time publicly insulting each other (2) Trump might feel like the kind of guy who could wreck a touchy negotiation. I'm, personally, cautiously optimistic this meeting, if it happens, goes well, but it's not wholly unreasonable to worry about Trump's behavior in such a meeting, isn't it?

Anonymous
>>11509018

The notion that Trump is a buffoon baffles me. The notion that he is untethered from the reality of negotiation is preposterous. Trump, love him or hate him, has proven his capability by succeeding, time after time, again and again. Do you think he would be where he is today if every time he got into a room to negotiate something important he stuffed it up? I think people’s hatred for the man has blinded them to his clear capabilities.

eh
>>11362670

Not really, I'm just basing this on some conversations with a Turkish friend who isn't an expert by any stretch

Anonymous

So, Mat, how do you feel about your remarks now? That's genuine curiosity, rather than rhetorical purposes, asking.