After a painstaking investigation, South Korea has blamed North Korea for the sinking of its warship, the Cheonan, on March 26. Ever since Kim Jong Il, the leader of North Korea, became ill, North Korea has become increasingly bold. In the past, top North Korean leaders tended to calculate the costs and benefits carefully when they acted to put pressure on the outside world. Recently however, they launched various missiles and conducted another nuclear test, all in a few weeks. Why the sudden boldness? The North Koreans seem to believe that possession of nuclear weapons provides them with far wider room for strategic and tactical boldness. Canada, the United States, Japan, South Korea, and Russia are focusing on the denuclearizing of North Korea, but they still want North Korea to open up and allow social reform. The Allied countries believe North Korea should open up to the world and forget about the possibility of a nuclear war, for the benefit of not only themselves, but the everyone.
I believe Canada, the United States, Japan, South Korea, and Russia should denuclearize North Korea immediately. After the threat is removed, they can focus on attempting to convince North Korea into a opening up to the world. It will be incredibly difficult because North Korea is a communist country, meaning the people don't have much say in the countries decisions. Truthfully, the world has been trying to help North Korea for years, but they are too stubborn to accept help. If they didn't want to accept social and economic aid before, why would they accept it now? North Korea has made up its mind to be an independent country that is against the world. If the world can't change North Korea's opinion about itself and everyone else, war is going to be inevitable, with or without the use of nuclear warheads.
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I believe Canada, the United States, Japan, South Korea, and Russia should denuclearize North Korea immediately. After the threat is removed, they can focus on attempting to convince North Korea into a opening up to the world. It will be incredibly difficult because North Korea is a communist country, meaning the people don't have much say in the countries decisions. Truthfully, the world has been trying to help North Korea for years, but they are too stubborn to accept help. If they didn't want to accept social and economic aid before, why would they accept it now? North Korea has made up its mind to be an independent country that is against the world. If the world can't change North Korea's opinion about itself and everyone else, war is going to be inevitable, with or without the use of nuclear warheads.
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ReplyDeleteI agree with you, except on one count. "It will be incrediby difficult because North Korea is a communist country, meaning the people don't have much say in the countries decisions"? It will be difficult, because North Korea is a dictatorship, and has a warped policy it calls communism. There is not a single country in all of history that has properly implemented communism; they all became dictatorships. Communism itself is about the people. There is no government in communism, it is the people working together for the community as a whole, making decisions for themselves. Free education, healthcare, publicly owned utilities, more balanced incomes. North Korea is its own type of government, and that is why it will be hard to deal with. It has a leader who does nothing but think for himself, and leave his people in horrible living conditions. The international community needs to be cautious, yet strict in its dealings with North Korea. I don't think it will be possible to denuclearize North Korea any time in the near future. Rather, we need to stabilize the situation.
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