Kim Jong Il’s secretive nuclear war program and South Korea and the world reaction to…
Imagine living in a country where your life is control, and you do not have your will of freedom. A life where you are exposed to chemical radiation, nuclear missile programs,the majority of the population are living in poverty and you are led by a dictator. Former British ambassador to North Korea, John Everard, wrote in his CNN op Ed, “Why North Korea is Delighted with this US Election”, readers will see that John Everard using rhetorical devices like appeal to authority, cause and effect and paradox. By using these three rhetorical devices let the reader see that for a long time the United States has tried to halt North Korea progression of nuclear programs, but negotiation never resolution but led to North Korea increasing their involvement in the program. John Everard argues that North Korea…
In North Korea there are many things that the people have to go through being under the dictatorship of Kim Jong Un. Un is a very powerful man that many people fear, he doesn't treat his people well. In north korea tvs are put in your house and can't be turned off, there is no social media or tv that isn't ran by the government. Even though Kim is a powerful leader he is not a nice man, he uses nukes to threaten, he oppresses his people, and uses his power to execute people for no reason. When he does get the people to agree with him or do what he wants he's makes them scared he's uses fear as a tactic.…
Those are two things that North Korea does not have because the government is neglectful of its people. North Korea has not had a happy history. Before communism took over, they were under Japanese military rule (Sarah Pruitt).Most Koreans were peasants working on farms. Now, only North Korea is going to control North Korea. One family has been dominating the nation since its independence. The Kim dynasty has ruled for years and will continue to rule for as long as they possibly can. The Kim family has used their power to brainwash the Korean citizens into thinking they are the greatest leaders to ever live. This is manipulative and neglectful, it does not show trust between leader and citizen. If a citizen believed in the leader of their country, they would not need to be brainwashed to think that…
When it came to China deciding to support North Korea, they made this choice because of the shared hatred for the enemy of North Korea (Yufan, Zhihai 94). In addition, this decision by China, also stems back to 1949 when Chairman Mao delivered a speech exclaiming how he is denouncing the United States as an imperialistic power seeking to dominate China, and with that he said China would now lean toward the side of the Soviet Union (Yufan, Zhihai 97). The Chinese Communist party did not want any more possibilities of United States ideals spreading into China, thus the reason for the Chinese leaning toward the Soviets. With that said, the Soviets joining North Korea is what made the Chinese join North Korea as well. In the aid of North Korea,…
The year is 1948, Joseph Stalin has just appointed the leader of North Korea as Kim Il-Sung, and since that time the same family has been in power. Kim Il-Sung is the man who is responsible for North Korea’s drive to become a nuclear power to this day. It was his demand for nuclear weapons that pushed the regime in its search. Flash-forward, it’s 1994, North Korea under the leadership of Kim Jong Il, Il-Sung’s son, announces it’s intentions to retract from the “Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT),” further confirming suspicions that North Korea had resumed its nuclear program (Arms Control Association, 2017) In May of 1996, president Bill Clinton places sanctions on North Korea not allowing exports or imports to the parts of the country deemed “missile-related.” (Arms Control Association, 2017). The effect of this was to cut off resources to an already starving country, but more importantly the citizens of this…
Imagine if the United States was divided into two separate countries, a communist nation and a democratic nation. Pretend you lived in the communist nation. There you would have no freedoms and rights. Your economy is also declining. You want to reunite with the democratic nation, but they don’t want you back. Your country has a bad reputation for nuclear weapons, violence, and discrimination against people who don’t believe in communism. This is what North and South Korea are going through right now. The North wants to reunite with the South because they are in an economic hole. Because of North Korea’s historic ties to China and South Korea’s ties to the United States, this very local conflict between two small nations has potential global…
Dr.Sanduk went to check on his patients after the surgery. He realize that once each patient could see, they immediately went to Kim Il Sung picture and praised him. The North Koreans are not in true belief, but they are in true fear. It’s a place ruled by an absolute dictator, who now possesses nuclear weapons. It’s no longer possible to regard the country as an isolated anomaly. What happens here in the hermit kingdom can directly touch everyone in the…
All in all, North Korea has a dictator for a president and North Korea’s human rights are all out of order. Kim Jong Un is all propaganda that makes him look good when he is really an insane president. Citizens do not have access to the media, cannot travel out of the country and never have a say in the government. The US president needs to sit down with Kim Jong Un and have a talk about their human rights. This can help all of the citizens have more freedom but still have some guidelines but will still have a huge change for their…
A: Current Problem-North Korea is a threat to itself and the world. People inside of North Korea are suffering every day and the U.S. is doing nothing.…
When I finished reading the book “Escape from Camp 14” by Blaine Harden, I realized that there were so many serious problems we should have known about the circumstance of the North Korea. It was actually much more horrible than I expected. What I have seen through this book was not only Shin’s awful situation but also the tragic relationship between Shin and his parents because of hunger, education and dehumanization.…
Since no export revenue is being generated, jobs are much harder to create along the seashores, as well as the inland cities and rural communities. North Korea is utterly dependent on imported oil, which was sold to them at a high cost from countries such as the former Soviet Union. Paul Liem, the chairman of the Korea Peace institute, argues that now North Korea must begin to import food, fertilizer, and other goods just so its economy can stay above water. However, North Korea continues to live by its traditional values in terms of foreign exchange, limiting imports on much needed goods from other countries. Holding back on aid from other countries is no simple task for a small country like North Korea (Liem 119). As North Korea scrambles to import much needed goods to an ever increasing population, a widespread famine would not be unlikely, which not only ravaged North Korean communities in the nineties, but is still happening to the bankrupt lower class who can’t afford the basic necessities that they need to…
The new North Korean communist/dictatorship government was founded by Kim-il-Sung. Kim Jong un is currently ruling over North Korea with two iron fists. In this country, sectioned off from everyone else in the world, there are concentration camps and labour camps. In emmbassador for North Korea calims that there are no such things in his country; even though report after report claims that the “gross treatment of human life is happening there”. You are either put into these camps or born here. To be placed in the camps, you have to be deemed an enemy of North Korea. Sound hard? Not entirely. Ever notice in videos how every North Korean person is chanting, marching, yelling, praising? It’s for a reason. If you do not chant along with the crowd or praise Kim Jong un, you are called out and belittled by the crowd and then deemed an enemy of the state. Use of Violence and Terror to Maintain…
As Fifield explains, “For the people of North Korea's threats are not just bluster. They are a very real part of daily life” (1). North Koreans are tired of how their leader is choosing to threaten the outside world, because it is putting their own lives at risk. As some North Koreans believe that “The regime is about survival” and that the way they torture their people in their country “They are so smart, they can control 23 million individuals, and make them so afraid they can’t do anything.” The way Kim's dictatorship works is basically by torturing his people to where they are terrified that they do not do anything he would not be okay with because he wants all the power and he does not want that power to be taken away from him (Garcia 4). Kim Jong-Un does not care about his North Koreans, as long as they obey what he says and does not go against his sayings, because he is a dictator he cannot be thrown out of his position by a vote, so he does not care about the public (Oprita 1). North Koreans are…
This July 27th marks the 60th anniversary of the armistice agreement that ended the combat phase of the Korean War, but the conflict did not end on July 27, 1953, it merely came to a temporary halt. Though the Korean War may been overshadowed by World War II and the Vietnam War in the minds of many Americans, it had a dramatic effect on social change in the United States ("Korean War had major impact on race relations..."). We have spent the past 60 years living not in a post-war era, but under a ceasefire. The Cold War may have ended 20 years ago with the fall of the USSR, but the same feelings remain alive and well on the Korean Peninsula. In this period and during the last years of the Bush administration as well, North…