Americans once carpet-bombed North Korea. It`s time to remember that past | Bruce Cumings
(The Guardian North Korea)

The US Air Force subjected North Koreans to three years of `rain and ruin´. It was a living nightmare - one that still haunts the country to this dayAs they always do on the anniversary of the armistice, North Koreans celebrated their `victory` in the Korean War on July 27. A few days later President Donald J Trump remarked that if the North Koreans make any more threats, they `will be met with fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which the world has never seen.` No American president has uttered words like this since Harry Truman warned the Japanese, between Hiroshima and Nagasaki, either to surrender or face `a rain of ruin from the air, the likes of which has never been seen on this earth.` Trump´s nuclear bluster, made off-the-cuff between golf rounds, was widely condemned, but a few days later he doubled down on it. Continue reading...