#2 Photomontage: Fear for Fall out
Inspired by Peter KennardPeter Kennard was born in London in 1949. Currently he is a Senior Tutor in Photography at the Royal College of Art. His Art hangs in the Tate, V&A, Imperial War Museum and the Science Museum in London. His work directly addresses his concerns with conflict, war, weapons, liberty and the environment. His anti-Iraq war images were central to the Santa’s Ghetto exhibition in London, 2006 and both he and Cat Picton Phillips were part of the Santa’s Ghetto in Bethlehem, 2007 which raised nearly $1,000,000 for 30 university places for children from the area as well as the Wi’am Project helping the community. Other Impressive artists that caught my attention for their remarkable photomontages are Richard Hamilton and John Heartfield.
Fear for Fall out
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is equipped with all types of nuclear warheads, atomic, neutron and hydrogen, and their means of delivery puts the whole of the USA within effective range. The Times of London wrote on April 24, 2009: "The world’s intelligence agencies and defense experts are quietly acknowledging that North Korea has become a fully fledged nuclear power with the capacity to wipe out entire cities in Japan and South Korea." The announced vow to quit six-party talks, restart nuclear facilities and conduct additional nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests is a clear message that the Kim Jong-il administration’s decision to shift to plan B is irretrievable. Plan B calls for the DPRK to join all three elite clubs of nuclear, space and economic powers by 2012, without seeking improved ties or a peace treaty with the US, as the DPRK has built up an independent global nuclear strike force which can carry the war all the way to the metropolitan US rather than on the Korean Peninsula. It is designed to impress upon the Korean population that Kim Jong-il is a Korean David heroically standing up to the American Goliath, that he can lead the epic effort to settle long-smoldering moral scores with the US over a more than 100-year-old grudge match that dates as far as the 1905 Taft-Katsura Agreement and the 1866 invasion of Korea by the USS General Sherman. The North Korean message is that any soft spots of the US, Japan and South Korea’s defense lines will be used as the testing grounds for their thermonuclear weapons. The North Korean state-run newspaper, Minjo Joson, vowed on June 9 to use nuclear weapons in war as "merciless means of offense to deal retaliatory strikes" against anyone who "dares infringe upon the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK even a bit".
"Our military first policy calls for an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, retaliation for retaliation, ultra-hardline for hardline, war for war, total war for total war, nuclear war for nuclear war." - Kim Jong-il
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