North Korea Terror
Throughout history multiple empires and countries have come and gone to power. That is mainly due to how much oil, land, allies, how high their population is, and how their military preforms. With all of these playing into a role on how strong their empire or country represents them across the entire world. Depending how strong they are, relates on how much of a threat or helpful ally they could be. Weapons of mass destruction play a critical part of power plays between countries of the world. This is why North Korea is such an immediate threat due to the countries insane leader. Kim Jong Un is a unstable dictator who isn't in the right state of mind to control millions of lives and millions and millions of dollars in weapons and weapons of destruction. Ever since the end of WWII North Korea has a rather big hand in the nuclear weapons development. Since
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They have been putting them in extreme stress and bad conditions since the end of the cold war. The dictatorship has been killing the residents of that country. They are cruel and need to change something before it's too late. If the people of north korea had the resources to rise up against the government they would be able change the land into a more free type of government so they would worship freely and be able to have a normal life instead of worrying about maybe losing everything to a madman.
I also believe that taking over the nuclear programs would work because we wouldn't have to worry about the chances of our homelands being decimated due to the nuclear warfare. The nuclear weapons are single handedly the most dangerous weapons on the planet. If you were able to take them away from a leader who is uncontrollable you would be able to decrease the threat from that particular person/country. If North Korea wasn’t in the nuclear warfare loop then they most likely wouldn't be as powerful as they could
Officially and originally referred to as, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, North Korea has had a dictatorship since 1948. (DPRK) On September 9, 1948 the United Nations elected South of Korea to be the Republic of Korea. They then elected North of Korea to be the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea electing Kim Il- Sung as the Prime Minster. This started the dictatorship in North Korea that still reigns on today.
Today, China and North Korea are two extremely powerful communist countries. However, communism was not always present. In fact, communism was a new political theory proposed and published on February 21st of 1848 by Karl Marx in his famous “Communist Manifesto.” In 1949, approximately one hundred years after the Communist Manifesto was written, Mao Zedong came into power and henceforth, adopted a form of communism. It was after World War II and the Chinese Civil War, that the Chinese Communists were able to overthrow Chiang Kai Shek and the Chinese Nationalist Party; hence, this new government swore to form a “brand new” China, which modeled and resembled closely to Marxism-Leninism. North Korea and China’s geography, mutual history, and ideology proved to make them similar in many aspects in terms of reforms and revolutions; however, it was not until death of Mao Zedong and the rise of Deng Xiao Ping in the mid-1970s that drew the distinct line between North Korea and China communism.
Just how bad are pure socialist economies? North Korea is the most well known socialist nation. The government came to control all economic decisions in the country. Most of the country’s resources were sent to the military. The country also used its resources on developing a nuclear program. The military growth used up all of the country’s necessary resources. In the late 90s and early 2000s, the majority of the country was suffering from hunger and malnutrition because food was scarce. Millions ended up dead, and those who survived only did because of the aid from other countries (like South Korea and other capitalist countries). The failure to provide food foe the country was due to their flawed economy. North Korea began to produce less
Out of all the dangerous powers and authority our government wields, possibly the most threatening powers are nuclear weapons. People tend to be frightened by things they do not understand, which make nuclear weapons a perfect catalyst for fear. These weapons have the most overwhelming and destructive power known to man; although, nuclear weapons are only safe in countries that try to maintain harmony and stability. Nuclear weapons are defined as “explosive devices whose destructive potential derives from the release of energy that accompanies the splitting or combining of atomic nuclei.” This power is both dangerous and unstable in the hands of small erratic countries.
Firstly North Korea is one of the toughest, scariest places to live because of their dictatorship. In 1993 Kim ll - Sung died of a heart attack and his son Kim Jong-ll took power and set out on making the nation a member of “axis of evil”. Secondly the economy was collapsing and the great famine was taking place. During the famine those who were to young, to old, to poor, or to honest to steal or find food starved and inevitably died. Another reason is in North Korea going to jail is one of the worst things to ever happen. Prisoners are beaten severely. Punishments sometimes included breaking fingers, and to sit or stand in horrible, excruciating positions for a long period of time. Escaping North Korea is also a huge task that doesn't always end up well. The bodies of North Koreans can also be found floating in the rivers after a failed attempt at escaping, although some have successfully made it out. Some say that the Dust Bowl and living in poverty are the hardest but, the Dust Bowl only lasted for about 10 years or so, and living in poverty has many people working to find a long lasting solution. On the other hand nobody can really do anything about North Korea because it’s very secluded and it’s a huge threat to
Since the end of the Korean War, the United States has enacted policies to isolate and undermine the Kim Dynasty in North Korea. A key development took place in the past several decades where North Korea broke away from the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to develop their own nuclear weapons and while lacking launch capabilities, they have been successful in their development. During this process, the United States took active policies to deter the North Koreans in pursuit of their goals. It is easy to assume that the United States took this stance in order to maintain a military edge in the region. But under closer examination, this neo-realist perspective does not explain why the United States pursued this policy. In reality, North Korea to this day does not pose a significant military threat, even with limited nuclear capabilities. A constructivist perspective is more able to explain US policy in this instance because it does not focus on sheer militaristic power. It takes into consideration the state's identities which drives their interests. The identities of the US and North Korea and the interactions between them drove both nations to the point of acquiring and deterring nuclear use.
The arrival of nuclear weapons transformed the international playing field permanently and new threats such as non-state actors have immerged as a result. Initially, only superpowers with nuclear arsenals had a global role as was evident during the Cold War between the U.S. and Soviet Union, but nuclear proliferation triggered a race to possess this power in the last 60 years.
The Cold War was a time of great tension all over the world. From 1945 to 1989, the United States was the leader and nuclear power and was competing with the Soviet Union to create huge stockpiles of nuclear weapons. However, even though the Cold War ended, nuclear weapons are still a threat. Countries around the world strive to create nuclear power, and they do not promise to use it for peaceful purposes. Some examples of the struggles caused by nuclear weapons include the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and Iran’s recent nuclear weapon program. Surely, nuclear weapons have created conflict all over the world since the Cold War era.
When one country begins to build nuclear bombs this automatically puts the other country at a disadvantage. So the other country then in turns has the desire to figure out this technology and begins to build its own nuclear bombs. By doing this dangers lurk and the potential of arm races begin to arise. Each country wants to outdo the other and have a bigger and dangerous way of gaining ultimate control. Nuclear power puts fate into man’s hands. At any given moment one country could wipe out another country by dropping a bomb. Although not all of the other countries have the ability to build a massive bomb because of the lack of money.
Since its origin in 1948, North Korea has been isolated and heavily armed, with hostile relations with South Korea and Western countries. It has developed a capability to produce short- and medium-range missiles, chemical weapons, and possibly biological and nuclear weapons. In December 2002, Pyongyang lifted the freeze on its plutonium-based nuclear weapons program and expelled IAEA inspectors who had been monitoring the freeze under the Agreed Framework of October 1994. As the Bush administration was arguing its case at the United Nations for disarming Iraq, the world has been hit with alarming news of a more menacing threat: North Korea has an advanced nuclear weapons program that, U.S. officials believe, has already produced one or two nuclear bombs. As the most recent standoff with North Korea over nuclear missile-testing approaches the decompression point, the United States needs to own up to a central truth: The region of Northeast Asia will never be fully secure until the communist dictatorship of North Korea passes from the scene. After threatening to test a new, long-range missile, Pyongyang says it is willing to negotiate with "the hostile nations" opposing it. But whether the North will actually forgo its test launch is anyone's guess. North Korea first became embroiled with nuclear politics during the Korean War. Although nuclear weapons were never used in Korea, American political leaders and military commanders threatened to use nuclear weapons to end the Korean War on terms favorable to the United States. In 1958, the United States deployed nuclear weapons to South Korea for the first time, and the weapons remained there until President George Bush ordered their withdrawal in 1991. North Korean government stateme...
Many people know about the situation regarding North Korea and their nuclear missiles, and many people know that North Korea is engaged in peace talks with other countries. Why though? What is the real reason for North Korea to engage in peace talks? Is North Korea getting worried about their safety? It is also well know that the United Nations have placed sanctions on North Korea to try and squeeze their economy, but is it working? They must be working if North Korea is ready to talk peace. Maybe North Korea isn't engaging in peace talks to make peace, but to get past or remove sanctions.
The constant failing of U.N. sanctions has led to North Korea having developed ICBMs capable of reaching Boston, MA, and detonating at seven times the blast of the atomic bomb dropped at Hiroshima (Berkowitz). A solution to this problem is that the US needs to back off and give in to North Korea’s demands of being recognized as a nuclear nation. North Korea has repeatedly shown that it is not afraid to attack the US and has no fear of starting a nuclear war, and a nuclear war would be against the interests of most everyone on the planet.
North Korea is already working on Nuclear weapons that can destroy cities at the push of a button. Will they honestly not jump at the chance to create a new weapon to take warfare to the next level and become an instant superpower? But, the question is: does the reward truly outweigh the cost?
A nation’s innovation system is shaped by how the nation leverages its endowments—natural resources, culture, history, geography, and demographics—through policies that create a thriving market-oriented economy and accelerate the transition of new technologies, processes, and services to the market (Branscomb and Auerswald 2002). The aim of this assignment is to evaluate South Korea’s innovation policies, in light of its latest ranking as the second most innovative country in the world.
To understand this situation more fully, one must be given some background, starting in the early 1950s. Due to the harsh differences between the peoples of Korea, and especially due to the onset of Communism, the Korean War erupted and the nation split in half, with the Communist-supported Democratic People’s Republic in the north and those who favored democracy in the Korean Republic of the south (Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2000). The two separate countries of North Korea and South Korea went their opposite ways, and each has experienced different fortunes in the past half-century. The South Koreans managed to recover from the turmoil of the 1950s and 1960s to become an economic power and a democracy supporter. On the other hand, North Korea can be viewed as a retro country, based first on a Communist ideology, laid down by leader Kim Il Sung and inherited by his son, the current dictator Kim Jong Il, then evolving into a totalitarian state (Pacific Rim: East Asia at the Dawn of a New Century). Today North Korea holds the distinction of being one of the very few remaining countries to be truly cut off from the rest of the world. Author Helie Lee describes this in her novel In the Absence of Sun: “An eerie fear crawled through my flesh as I stood on the Chinese side of the Yalu River, gazing across the murky water into one of the most closed-off and isolated countries in the world.” (1)