2 Koreas, like 2 Vietnams, just another pair of Made In USA constructs

In 1945, just a day after America fried about 50,000 souls in Nagasaki, a couple of US diplomats, including JFK's future Secretary of State Dean Rusk, looked at the emerging make up of newly liberated Korea and said, 'Let's carve it up'. Their aim was to prevent Korea from Soviet influence led by 30,000 Korean guerrillas, who had been fighting for Korean independence from colonizer Japan since 1932. Possibly using a dart, and totally unconcerned with Korean interests, they chose the 38th parallel. Three days later 25,000 US troops poured into the newly created US protectorate in the South, beginning the 72 year artificial division of Korea that remains likely the greatest threat to a uclear confrontation today.

US history texts will never teach this story to a grossly uninformed electorate. Nor will they mention we bolstered our creation of South Korea with thousands of Koreans formerly loyal to Korea's Japanese masters and that several hundred thousand Koreans were whacked by the South, with US complicity, to keep South free from a unified Korea. How about the million North Koreans, over half of which were civilians, we killed preventing unification during the 1950-53 Korean War?

The US political class and media love to portray North Korea's leaders as delusional and crazy. But just like our decades long effort to prevent unification of Vietnam that killed millions, America's obsession with maintaining and controlling the two Koreas is the gold standard for delusional and crazy.