Cause of North Korea’s Shelling Is U.S.

The South Korea Defense Ministry expressed that the U.S. and South Korea had decided to have Washington aircraft carriers participate in their joint military exercises on Nov. 28 in the Yellow Sea after North Korea’s shelling incident on Nov. 23. The U.S. and South Korea’s joint military drills will only intensify the tensions in the Korean Peninsula. As such, one can only wonder what the U.S. is trying to do. It seems that the party that will benefit from North Korea’s shelling incident and the joint military drills is the U.S. The shelling incident did not occur by chance; rather, it was directly related to the continual provocative military exercises performed by the U.S. and South Korea at North Korea’s door. The U.S. is the party that will benefit the most from all these incidents, and this is a consequence of U.S. deliberate intervention.

The U.S., South Korea and Japan insisted that the shelling incident was started by North Korea, whereas North Korea condemned South Korea for the shelling that happened in North Korea’s territorial waters on Nov. 23, claiming that North Korea’s military was recklessly provoked. As a result, North Korea reacted in response to this provocation. South Korea denied that it was having its National Protection Army military exercise — rather, the country claimed it was only a routine exercise. In saying this, South Korea is wanting to hide the truth, yet the truth is instead made more obvious. In fact, about 7 million soldiers from the U.S.-ROK army were taking part in the joint military exercises on Nov. 22. North Korea had sent a message to South Korea on the morning of Nov. 23, stating that it would not sit by and watch if South Korea was to continue shooting in the DPRK’s territorial waters during the military exercises. The U.S.-ROK’s routine exercise was the trigger for the North Korea shelling incident. The scale of the joint routine exercises is getting bigger, and they are taking place more frequently on the Korean Peninsula. In fact, the U.S. is the one benefiting from the U.S.-ROK military exercises.

The North Korea shelling incident has made South Korea and Japan move closer to the U.S. not only on a political level, but on a military level as well. The North Korea shelling incident has also made it easier for the U.S. to resolve the Korea-Japan military issue. Not only that, but there is also an economic aspect to this incident: The U.S., with the intention of saving its ailing economy, created tensions in the Northeast Asian region to deteriorate the Asian investment environment and cause global capital to flow back to the U.S. in order to save its ailing economy. The North Korea shelling incident might seem to be accidental, but hidden behind it is a huge U.S. profit motive.

The shady Cheonan incident promoted the U.S.-ROK alliance; U.S. support for the event in which Japan violated Chinese territory on the Diaoyu island resulted in the U.S.-Japan alliance. What is particularly questionable, however, is that although the U.S. is printing money excessively and blaming the whole world, the U.S. economy is still weak. If the hotspot in the global economy is Northeast Asia, a sudden conflict that might result in a possible war will result in the investing environment of Northeast Asia, or even Asia more generally, to deteriorate, thus even leading to large amounts of capital outflows from the region and back to U.S. It is all too clear that the party that benefits the most from the North Korea shelling incident is the U.S.

South Korea and North Korea will definitely not benefit from the increasing tension on the Korean Peninsula. This shelling incident has resulted in a sharp fall of the Korean won and stocks, causing unrest among the South Koreans. Although the U.S. is the party that will benefit the most, when war starts in the Korean Peninsula, the U.S. will nonetheless also have to pay a high price. Therefore, China advocates for maintaining peace in the Korean Peninsula and denuclearizing the Peninsula, and also advocates for both parties (South Korea and North Korea) to return to the six-party talk in order to manage the interests of all parties involved.