History Lesson: America’s Renegade WarfareNicolas J S Davies Consortium NewsSeventy-seven million people in North and South Korea find themselves directly in the line of fire from the threat of a Second Korean War. The rest of the world is recoiling in horror from the scale of civilian casualties such a war would cause and the unthinkable prospect that either side might actually use nuclear weapons.Since the first Korean War killed at least 20 percent of North Korea s population and left the country in ruins, the U.S. has repeatedly failed to follow through on diplomacy to establish a lasting peace in Korea and has instead kept reverting to illegal and terrifying threats of war. Most significantly, the U.S. has waged a relentless propaganda campaign to discount North Korea s legitimate defense concerns as it confronts the threat of a U.S. war machine that has only grown more dangerous since the last time it destroyed North Korea.The North has lived under this threat for 65 years and has watched Iraq and Libya destroyed after they gave up their nuclear weapons programs. When North Korea discovered a U.S. plan for a Second Korean War on South Korea s military computer network in September 2016, its leaders quite rationally concluded that a viable nuclear deterrent is the only way to guarantee their country s safety.What does it say about the role the U.S. is playing in the world that the only way North Korea s leaders believe they can keep their own people safe is to develop weapons that could kill millions of Americans?The Changing Face of WarThe Second World War was the deadliest war ever fought, with at least 75 million people killed, about five times as many as in the First World War. When the slaughter ended in 1945, world leaders signed the United Nations Charter to try to ensure that that scale of mass killing and destruction would never happen again. The U.N. Charter is still in force, and it explicitly prohibits the threat or use of military force by any nation.It was not just the scale of the slaughter that shocked the world s leaders into that brief moment of sanity in 1945. It was also the identities of the dead. Two-thirds of the people killed in the Second World War were civilians, a drastic change from the First World War, only a few decades earlier, when an estimated 86 percent of the people killed were uniformed combatants. The use of nuclear weapons by the United States raised the specter that future wars could kill an exponentially greater numbers of civilians, or even end human civilization altogether.War had become  total war,  no longer fought only on battlefields between soldiers, but between entire societies with ordinary people, their homes and their lives now on the front line. In the Second World War: Fleets of warplanes deliberately bombed cities to dehouse civilian populations, as British officials described their own bombing of Germany. As I write this,  George Orwell wrote from London in 1941,  Highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. Submarines sank hundreds of merchant ships in an effort to starve their enemies into submission. General Carter Clarke, who was in charge of interpreting Japanese intelligence for President Truman, said in a 1959 interview that Japan surrendered because it faced mass starvation due to the sinking of its merchant shipping, not because of the gratuitous U.S. nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was estimated that 7 million more civilians would die of starvation if Japan fought on until 1946. Genocidal mass extermination campaigns killed civilians based only on their political affiliation or ethnicity. Under cross-examination by a young American prosecutor, Benjamin Ferencz, SS Gruppenfuhrer Dr. Otto Ohlendorf explained patiently to a courtroom in Nuremberg why he found it necessary for the  preemptive defense  of Germany to order the killing of hundreds of thousands of civilians. He explained that even children had to be killed to prevent them too becoming enemies of Germany when they grew up and found out what happened to their parents.Despite the U.N. Charter and international efforts to prevent war, people in countries afflicted by war today still face the kind of total war that horrified world leaders in 1945. The main victims of total war in our  modern  world have been civilians in countries far removed from the safe havens of power and privilege where their fates are debated and decided: Yugoslavia; Afghanistan; Iraq; Somalia; Pakistan; Yemen; Libya; Syria; Ukraine. There has been no legal or political accountability for the mass destruction of their cities, their homes or their lives. Total war has not been prevented, or even punished, just externalized.But thanks to billions of dollars invested in military propaganda and public relations and the corrupt nature of for-profit media systems, citizens of the countries responsible for the killing of millions of their fellow human beings live in near-total ignorance of the mass killing carried out in their name in these  red zones  around the world.People in ever-spreading war zones are living under the very conditions of total war that the world recoiled from at the end of the Second World War. Like Orwell in London in 1941, they hear highly civilized human beings flying overhead trying to kill them, human beings who know nothing about them beyond the name of the city where they live and its strategic value in wars that offer them, the victims, nothing but death or destitution.In the case of drones, the human beings trying to kill them from the other side of the world are so highly civilized that they can hop into cars and drive home to have dinner with their families at the end of their shifts, while another  team member  efficiently takes over the  joy-stick  and carries on killing.People in Yemen, Syria, Iraq and Libya have been subjected to hunger and starvation under sieges and naval blockades that are as brutally effective as German and American submarines were in World War Two. Millions of people in Yemen face an imminent danger of starvation under the U.S.-backed naval blockade and Saudi and Emirati bombing of Yemeni ports.In retaliation for one missile fired at Riyadh, the Saudi capital, last week, the U.S.-backed coalition completely closed all Yemen s ports, tightening the blockade on millions of starving people. The requirements of necessity and proportionality, which have been basic principles of customary international law since the Nineteenth Century, lie buried in the graveyards of Iraq and Afghanistan.Continue this article at Consortium News READ MORE WAR ON TERROR NEWS AT: 21st Century Wire War on Terror FilesSUPPORT 21WIRE  SUBSCRIBE & BECOME A MEMBER @ 21WIRE.TVUS_News
history lesson america renegade warfarenicolas j s davies consortium million people north south korea find directly line fire threat second korean war the rest world recording horror scale civilian casualties war would cause unthinkable prospect either side might actually use nuclear first korean war killed least percent north korea population left country ruins repeatedly failed follow diplomacy establish lasting peace korea instead kept reverting illegal terrifying threats war most significantly waged relentless propaganda campaign discount north korea legitimate defense concerns confronts threat war machine grown dangerous since last time destroyed north north lived threat years watched iraq libya destroyed gave nuclear weapons programs when north korea discovered plan second korean war south korea military computer network september leaders quite rationally concluded viable nuclear deterrent way guarantee country say role playing world way north korea leaders believe keep people safe develop weapons could kill millions americans the changing face worth second world war deadliest war ever fought least million people killed five times many first world war when slaughter ended world leaders signed united nations charter try ensure scale mass killing destruction would never happen the charter still force explicitly prohibits threat use military force scale slaughter shocked world leaders brief moment sanity it also identities dead people killed second world war civilians drastic change first world war decades earlier estimated percent people killed uniformed combatants the use nuclear weapons united states raised spectre future wars could kill exponentially greater numbers civilians even end human civilization become total war longer fought battlefields soldiers entire societies ordinary people homes lives front line in second world war fleets airplanes deliberately bombed cities house civilian populations british officials described bombing germany as i write george orwell wrote london highly civilized human beings flying overhead trying kill submarines sank hundreds merchant ships effort starve enemies submission general carter clarke charge interpreting japanese intelligence president human said interview japan surrendered faced mass starvation due sinking merchant shipping gratuitous nuclear attacks hiroshima nagasaki it estimated million civilians would die starvation japan fought genocide mass extermination campaigns killed civilians based political affiliation ethnicity under young american prosecutor benjamin french ss gruppenfuhrer otto ohlendorf explained patiently courtroom nuremberg found necessary preemptive defense germany order killing hundreds thousands civilians he explained even children killed prevent becoming enemies germany grew found happened charter international efforts prevent war people countries afflicted war today still face kind total war horrified world leaders the main victims total war modern world civilians countries far removed safe havens power privilege fates debated decided yugoslavia afghanistan iraq somalia pakistan yemen libya syria ukraine there legal political accountability mass destruction cities homes lives total war prevented even punished thanks billions dollars invested military propaganda public relations corrupt nature media systems citizens countries responsible killing millions fellow human beings live ignorance mass killing carried name red zones around war zones living conditions total war world received end second world war like orwell london hear highly civilized human beings flying overhead trying kill human beings know nothing beyond name city live strategic value wars offer victims nothing death case drones human beings trying kill side world highly civilized hop cars drive home dinner families end shifts another team member efficiently takes carries yemen syria iraq libya subjected hunger starvation sieges naval blockade brutally effective german american submarines world war two millions people yemen face imminent danger starvation naval blockade saudi emirate bombing yemen retaliation one missile fired riyadh saudi capital last week coalition completely closed yemen ports tightening blockade millions starving people the requirements necessity proportionality basic principles customary international law since nineteenth century lie buried graveyard iraq article consortium news read more war on terror news at century wire war terror filessupport subscribe become a member
Your task is to classify the provided input as real or fake news. Label 0 is meant for fake news, Label 1 is for real news. TEXT: History Lesson: America’s Renegade WarfareNicolas J S Davies Consortium NewsSeventy-seven million people in North and South Korea find themselves directly in the line of fire from the threat of a Second Korean War. The rest of the world is recoiling in horror from the scale of civilian casualties such a war would cause and the unthinkable prospect that either side might actually use nuclear weapons.Since the first Korean War killed at least 20 percent of North Korea s population and left the country in ruins, the U.S. has repeatedly failed to follow through on diplomacy to establish a lasting peace in Korea and has instead kept reverting to illegal and terrifying threats of war. Most significantly, the U.S. has waged a relentless propaganda campaign to discount North Korea s legitimate defense concerns as it confronts the threat of a U.S. war machine that has only grown more dangerous since the last time it destroyed North Korea.The North has lived under this threat for 65 years and has watched Iraq and Libya destroyed after they gave up their nuclear weapons programs. When North Korea discovered a U.S. plan for a Second Korean War on South Korea s military computer network in September 2016, its leaders quite rationally concluded that a viable nuclear deterrent is the only way to guarantee their country s safety.What does it say about the role the U.S. is playing in the world that the only way North Korea s leaders believe they can keep their own people safe is to develop weapons that could kill millions of Americans?The Changing Face of WarThe Second World War was the deadliest war ever fought, with at least 75 million people killed, about five times as many as in the First World War. When the slaughter ended in 1945, world leaders signed the United Nations Charter to try to ensure that that scale of mass killing and destruction would never happen again. The U.N. Charter is still in force, and it explicitly prohibits the threat or use of military force by any nation.It was not just the scale of the slaughter that shocked the world s leaders into that brief moment of sanity in 1945. It was also the identities of the dead. Two-thirds of the people killed in the Second World War were civilians, a drastic change from the First World War, only a few decades earlier, when an estimated 86 percent of the people killed were uniformed combatants. The use of nuclear weapons by the United States raised the specter that future wars could kill an exponentially greater numbers of civilians, or even end human civilization altogether.War had become  total war,  no longer fought only on battlefields between soldiers, but between entire societies with ordinary people, their homes and their lives now on the front line. In the Second World War: Fleets of warplanes deliberately bombed cities to dehouse civilian populations, as British officials described their own bombing of Germany. As I write this,  George Orwell wrote from London in 1941,  Highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. Submarines sank hundreds of merchant ships in an effort to starve their enemies into submission. General Carter Clarke, who was in charge of interpreting Japanese intelligence for President Truman, said in a 1959 interview that Japan surrendered because it faced mass starvation due to the sinking of its merchant shipping, not because of the gratuitous U.S. nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was estimated that 7 million more civilians would die of starvation if Japan fought on until 1946. Genocidal mass extermination campaigns killed civilians based only on their political affiliation or ethnicity. Under cross-examination by a young American prosecutor, Benjamin Ferencz, SS Gruppenfuhrer Dr. Otto Ohlendorf explained patiently to a courtroom in Nuremberg why he found it necessary for the  preemptive defense  of Germany to order the killing of hundreds of thousands of civilians. He explained that even children had to be killed to prevent them too becoming enemies of Germany when they grew up and found out what happened to their parents.Despite the U.N. Charter and international efforts to prevent war, people in countries afflicted by war today still face the kind of total war that horrified world leaders in 1945. The main victims of total war in our  modern  world have been civilians in countries far removed from the safe havens of power and privilege where their fates are debated and decided: Yugoslavia; Afghanistan; Iraq; Somalia; Pakistan; Yemen; Libya; Syria; Ukraine. There has been no legal or political accountability for the mass destruction of their cities, their homes or their lives. Total war has not been prevented, or even punished, just externalized.But thanks to billions of dollars invested in military propaganda and public relations and the corrupt nature of for-profit media systems, citizens of the countries responsible for the killing of millions of their fellow human beings live in near-total ignorance of the mass killing carried out in their name in these  red zones  around the world.People in ever-spreading war zones are living under the very conditions of total war that the world recoiled from at the end of the Second World War. Like Orwell in London in 1941, they hear highly civilized human beings flying overhead trying to kill them, human beings who know nothing about them beyond the name of the city where they live and its strategic value in wars that offer them, the victims, nothing but death or destitution.In the case of drones, the human beings trying to kill them from the other side of the world are so highly civilized that they can hop into cars and drive home to have dinner with their families at the end of their shifts, while another  team member  efficiently takes over the  joy-stick  and carries on killing.People in Yemen, Syria, Iraq and Libya have been subjected to hunger and starvation under sieges and naval blockades that are as brutally effective as German and American submarines were in World War Two. Millions of people in Yemen face an imminent danger of starvation under the U.S.-backed naval blockade and Saudi and Emirati bombing of Yemeni ports.In retaliation for one missile fired at Riyadh, the Saudi capital, last week, the U.S.-backed coalition completely closed all Yemen s ports, tightening the blockade on millions of starving people. The requirements of necessity and proportionality, which have been basic principles of customary international law since the Nineteenth Century, lie buried in the graveyards of Iraq and Afghanistan.Continue this article at Consortium News READ MORE WAR ON TERROR NEWS AT: 21st Century Wire War on Terror FilesSUPPORT 21WIRE  SUBSCRIBE & BECOME A MEMBER @ 21WIRE.TVUS_News
Your task is to classify the provided input as real or fake news. Label 0 is meant for fake news, Label 1 is for real news. TEXT: history lesson america renegade warfarenicolas j s davies consortium million people north south korea find directly line fire threat second korean war the rest world recording horror scale civilian casualties war would cause unthinkable prospect either side might actually use nuclear first korean war killed least percent north korea population left country ruins repeatedly failed follow diplomacy establish lasting peace korea instead kept reverting illegal terrifying threats war most significantly waged relentless propaganda campaign discount north korea legitimate defense concerns confronts threat war machine grown dangerous since last time destroyed north north lived threat years watched iraq libya destroyed gave nuclear weapons programs when north korea discovered plan second korean war south korea military computer network september leaders quite rationally concluded viable nuclear deterrent way guarantee country say role playing world way north korea leaders believe keep people safe develop weapons could kill millions americans the changing face worth second world war deadliest war ever fought least million people killed five times many first world war when slaughter ended world leaders signed united nations charter try ensure scale mass killing destruction would never happen the charter still force explicitly prohibits threat use military force scale slaughter shocked world leaders brief moment sanity it also identities dead people killed second world war civilians drastic change first world war decades earlier estimated percent people killed uniformed combatants the use nuclear weapons united states raised spectre future wars could kill exponentially greater numbers civilians even end human civilization become total war longer fought battlefields soldiers entire societies ordinary people homes lives front line in second world war fleets airplanes deliberately bombed cities house civilian populations british officials described bombing germany as i write george orwell wrote london highly civilized human beings flying overhead trying kill submarines sank hundreds merchant ships effort starve enemies submission general carter clarke charge interpreting japanese intelligence president human said interview japan surrendered faced mass starvation due sinking merchant shipping gratuitous nuclear attacks hiroshima nagasaki it estimated million civilians would die starvation japan fought genocide mass extermination campaigns killed civilians based political affiliation ethnicity under young american prosecutor benjamin french ss gruppenfuhrer otto ohlendorf explained patiently courtroom nuremberg found necessary preemptive defense germany order killing hundreds thousands civilians he explained even children killed prevent becoming enemies germany grew found happened charter international efforts prevent war people countries afflicted war today still face kind total war horrified world leaders the main victims total war modern world civilians countries far removed safe havens power privilege fates debated decided yugoslavia afghanistan iraq somalia pakistan yemen libya syria ukraine there legal political accountability mass destruction cities homes lives total war prevented even punished thanks billions dollars invested military propaganda public relations corrupt nature media systems citizens countries responsible killing millions fellow human beings live ignorance mass killing carried name red zones around war zones living conditions total war world received end second world war like orwell london hear highly civilized human beings flying overhead trying kill human beings know nothing beyond name city live strategic value wars offer victims nothing death case drones human beings trying kill side world highly civilized hop cars drive home dinner families end shifts another team member efficiently takes carries yemen syria iraq libya subjected hunger starvation sieges naval blockade brutally effective german american submarines world war two millions people yemen face imminent danger starvation naval blockade saudi emirate bombing yemen retaliation one missile fired riyadh saudi capital last week coalition completely closed yemen ports tightening blockade millions starving people the requirements necessity proportionality basic principles customary international law since nineteenth century lie buried graveyard iraq article consortium news read more war on terror news at century wire war terror filessupport subscribe become a member