Fixing the Problems of Our World
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14. The “United Nations” should rent the North Korean army indefinitely and deploy it in troubled areas like Sudan, Somalia, Iraq. The Koreans historically play no favorites between Christians and Muslims, Arabs and Africans, Shi’ites and Sunnis: those idolatrous drama queens have been purged out of them by their own privations and strife. Plus, they have a different fundamentalist theology, a Korean “koran/koan” as it were.
Kim Jong-il’s troops would have been disciplined and proficient in halting the slaughter in Rwanda—so transport them to Darfur at once and give them a mission and free rein. They should have been airlifted to Indonesia after the tsunami. They would have restored order and found the dead bodies in New Orleans post-Katrina faster than FEMA. They could still be parachuted into the mountains of Pakistan to erect villages for earthquake victims. They could stare down the narco-terrorists in Badakhshan, Cali, Juarez, wherever. They could enforce nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, break child-enslavement cartels and other mafias, guard the rainforest, and defend the Earth’s oxygen balance against vigilantes in the Amazon. They could express their doctrinal purity for the entire planet rather than one delusionary and provincial cult.
I have a sense that this is what the North Korean leaders are pleading for the world to do—to save them from themselves. They are building nuclear weapons to get us to force them to stop, stop the madness, stop it all, on both sides of the DMZ, to protect them and us, before it is too late. In their own crude and demented way, they are already saying, “We are one.”
(Along these same lines Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, and their minions are begging to be enlisted in acts of ferocious love and healing, even if they don’t realize it. The jihadist servants of Allah know how to recruit and train and die selflessly for honor. Hey bad boys, make it the honor of the whole planet, the defense of all sentient beings—and we will be alongside you, halfway home.)
The cost of renting Kim’s military would be food and medicine for the North Korean people along with investments and micro-loans to jump-start their economy.
Maybe Pyongyang, presently outside the global economy, unsullied by either late modernism or New Age fantasies, could become the pivot for alternative technologies, the capital of ecological design. They wouldn’t have to tear down too much infrastructure to substitute solar homes and wind factories. And they would only have to invert—not renounce—their belief system to turn it into prana and psi.
Americans should recognize an achievement for what it is and not libel it prematurely or get deluded by their own ideological bias. The truth is: the West would love to have such an army. (The neocons don’t stand against North Korea; they would just like to be their own North Korea. That is, they dig the sanctitude, the suppression of heresy, the well-drilled standing army in the service of the Idea. They just don’t want it playing for another team. Remember how neocon forerunners greeted and bribed Nazi scientists and then Soviet security experts once their polities collapsed: “Come right here,” they said, “and do the same stuff for us.” Well, how about for the United Nations, at least until we found something better.)
There is no Axis of Evil anyway, but there is axial power and it should be conducted toward the common good. The Korean army has been created at enormous expense and consequence; it is a great military and industrial force in working order, trained and regimented, directed toward ideals. Redirecting it toward the real mess in the world would be a blessing for everyone everywhere.
In any case, the world must use this engine to serve a positive goal while there is yet time. Either we tame these warriors, or they will, sooner or later, erupt across the Peninsula, and beyond, in tsunamis of destruction.
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