North Korean vessel sets course for Vladivostok as Washington's vassal supports sanctions

By Vladimir V. Sytin

Fair winds and following seas! North Korea's Man Gyong Bong ferry, which is owned by the Russian company InvestStroyTrest, has started making trips from the North Korean port of Rajin to the Russian city of Vladivostok, as it was banned from calling at Japanese ports.

As expected, the ferryboat will make monthly six trips to the Russian seaport, exporting foodstuffs and parts of various devices. The ferry service will also facilitate the influx of foreign currency into North Korea.

The Man Gyong Bong can hold up to 200 passengers and has 40 cabins, a restaurant and two bars, The Guardian said. In addition, the vessel features slot machines, a shop, a sauna and a karaoke room. The Man Gyong Bong can also carry 1,500 tons of cargo in its three dry holds. The InvestStroyTrest website lists ticket prices of 600 to 750 yuan per passenger. The overnight route takes nine hours, but the company promised that the "ship will reduce speed in good weather so passengers can enjoy the beauty and smell of the sea".

Previously, the ferryboat was plying between North Korea and Japan, but the Washington's vassal cut off the service after Pyongyang's first nuclear test in 2006.

As part of growing political and economic ties, Russia and North Korea have signed agreements to increase bilateral trade to $1 billion by 2020 and build a railroad from the Russian border to Rajin.

North Korea, which is banned by U.N. resolutions from engaging in nuclear and missile developments, has accused the United States of a hostile policy to crush its government, calling its nuclear weapons a "sacred sword" to protect itself.

According to politologist Paul Craig Roberts, the neoconservative claim of American exceptionalism is the identical claim made for Germans by Hitler. If Americans are indispensable, everyone else is dispensable and can be "bombed into the stone age" as one U.S. government official put it, or nuked as Washington intends to do to North Korea, Russia and China. The claim of American exceptionalism is not accepted by Pyongyang, Moscow and Beijing.

Therefore, the insane, crazed monsters who rule over the West in Washington make attempts to bring life on earth to an end. It is Washington that wants to snuff out human morality and become the master of the planet. And there are no protests. The idiot Japanese, the idiot British, the idiot French, Canadians, Australians and Belgians, among others, rally behind the insanity that is Washington.

Like it or not, Russia is able to block U.S. unilateral actions against some countries including North Korea. This capability flies in the face of the neoconservative Wolfowitz doctrine, which says the principal goal of U.S. foreign policy is to prevent the rise of any country that can serve as a check on Washington's unilateral action. While neocons were absorbed in their "cakewalk" wars that have now lasted 16 years, Russia and China emerged as checks on the unilateralism that Washington had enjoyed since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Finally, it is worth remembering that it was the United States that gratuitously destroyed two Japanese cities with atomic bombs.