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“About midnight, August 10-11, 1945, Colonel Charles H. Bonesteel and major Dean Rusk began drafting part of a general Order that would define the zones to be occupied in Korea by American and Russian forces. They were given thirty minutes to complete their draft, which a State-War-Navy Coordinating committee was waiting for. The State Department wished the dividing line to be as far north as possible while the military departments, knowing that the Russians could overrun all of Korea before any American troops could land there, were more cautious. Bonesteel and Rusk wanted to follow provincial boundary lines north of Seoul, which would violate political divisions as little as possible and would place the capital city in the American zone. The only map immediately available was a small map of the Far East, and time was pressing. Bonesteel noted that the 38 parallel passed north of Seoul and almost divided Korea into equal parts. He seized on it as the proposed zonal boundary.”
(‘The Origins of the Korean War’, Vol.1, Bruce Cumings. P120)

“ In Vietnam [war], the [South] Korean military killed a total of 41, 400 enemy soldiers. But there were also killings of civilians that have not yet been officially reported nor made known to the world. According to the Vietnamese ministry of culture and Communications, the total number of civilians killed by the Korean military…the Ministry is careful to add that it is a preliminary count… comes to approximately 5,000”
(cite from Ku, Su Jeong, Hankyeore21 correspondent in 2000)

The colonized has become the another violent colonizer. While the imperial power of the Military-Industry complex increasing, space has become the site for domination. Since 1991, U.S.A. veterans, European veterans, Iraqi veterans who participated in the Iraq war and their Children have been dying for the depleted uranium, a kind of nuclear waste, which was used by the U.S. Defense Department.

"The Aug. 4 Seattle Post Intelligencer reported...' the Pentagon and the United Nations estimate that the U.S. and Britain used 1,100 to 2,200 tons of armor-piercing shells made of depleted uranium during attacks on Iraq in March and April - far more than the 375 tons used in the 1991 Gulf War,"
(cite from Sara Flounders, International Action Center, Aug. 4, 2003)