region:north vietnam

Why Vietnam Appeals as Possible Host for Trump-Kim Summit - The New York Times
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Vietnam, a former enemy of South Korea and the United States, has joined the global economy and become a strategic ally and robust trading partner for both countries.

Vietnam and South Korea normalized relations in 1992, and Hanoi is now Seoul’s fourth-largest trading partner after China, the United States and Japan, with two-way trade valued last year at $62.6 billion.

Vietnam and the United States normalized relations in 1995, two decades after North Vietnam defeated the American-backed South Vietnamese regime to end the Vietnam War. From 1995 to 2016 — a period of heady economic growth in Vietnam — trade between the United States and Vietnam grew to nearly $52 billion from $451 million. Hanoi is now among Washington’s fastest-growing export markets.

The U.S. war crime North Korea won’t forget - The Washington Post
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The story dates to the early 1950s, when the U.S. Air Force, in response to the North Korean invasion that started the Korean War, bombed and napalmed cities, towns and villages across the North. It was mostly easy pickings for the Air Force, whose B-29s faced little or no opposition on many missions.

The bombing was long, leisurely and merciless, even by the assessment of America’s own leaders. “Over a period of three years or so, we killed off — what — 20 percent of the population,” Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, head of the Strategic Air Command during the Korean War, told the Office of Air Force History in 1984. Dean Rusk, a supporter of the war and later secretary of state, said the United States bombed “everything that moved in North Korea, every brick standing on top of another.” After running low on urban targets, U.S. bombers destroyed hydroelectric and irrigation dams in the later stages of the war, flooding farmland and destroying crops.

How Photography Shaped Our Narratives of the Vietnam War · Global Voices
▻https://globalvoices.org/2017/05/11/how-photography-shaped-our-narratives-of-the-vietnam-war

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Meet Nick Út, one of the most internationally recognized photographers of the Vietnam War. The Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist just retired in March after 51 years of working for the Associated Press news agency.

Út became famous for a photo of a young girl (Kim Phúc) nearly burned to death by a bomb dropped by a South Vietnamese plane, taken in a village being overtaken by North Vietnam forces. A photo that many credit or blame, depending on whom you ask, to have changed the tide of the Vietnam War. The black-and-white photo is loud and shocking. When viewing it, we first grapple with the naked, crying young girl in the foreground, her singed skin against the backdrop of napalm smoke. The cries from running villagers in the photo become nearly auditory.

#photographie #icône #vietnam

Anatomy of a War
Video of a forgotten tribunal against US crimes in Vietnam.

In 1966, two of Europe’s most distinguished philosophers, Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre, issued a call for a War Crimes Tribunal to try the United States for crimes against humanity in their conduct of the war in Vietnam. A number of us were sent to North Vietnam to observe and record the attacks on civilians. I spent six weeks under the bombs, an experience that shaped the rest of my life.

The tribunal convened in Stockholm in 1967. The jury members included Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Isaac Deutscher, Vladimir Dedijer, Mahmud Ali Kasuri, and David Dellinger, among others. The gathering was either ignored or denigrated by the mainstream media. The aim was not legal but moral. To bring the crimes to the notice of the public.

A year later Seymour Hersh exposed the My Lai Massacre, one of many carried out by US troops in Vietnam. There was no video record of the tribunal until the emergence, a few years ago, of this film by a Swedish activist, Steffan Lamm. It should speak to us strongly today as we watch the crimes being committed in Gaza.

▻https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/08/anatomy-of-a-war

#vidéo #guerre #Vietnam #My_Lai_Massacre #USA #Etats-Unis #crimes_de_guerre #Steffan_Lamm #crimes_contre_l'humanité