Reflection About Diplomacy

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I have lived in Suwon, Korea. Suwon is one of the biggest cities in Korea, which has over a million citizens. It’s a satellite city of our capital city, Seoul. The most fascinating thing of the city is that we have the world heritage named Hwa sung. It’s a fortress, which was built in the age of king Jungjo in the Joseon dynasty (the era existed just before the republic of Korea). Thanks to the very fortress, Suwon can be a beautiful city which contains both traditional and modern aspects. There are some old buildings such as watchtower along the fortress, and contemporary architectures also exist beyond the wall. Suwon is the great town that offers the fantastic experience to see the past and the present of Korea at the same time to her citizens. …show more content…

Every nation considers its own interest, and it is a natural phenomenon that no one could blame. The declaration they made contains endless connotations, and that’s why we should be careful when we accept it. The point is, the country made an official speech to introduce their ultimate goal. And we regard it as an attempt of connection. As if each language differently express the same sound, the common sentence can be understood various way. These gap sometime lead to serious conflict between nations, however, we could separate this issue from the concept of the diplomacy. It’s because the first definition of diplomacy should be the important bridge among the countries, and effort to communicate one another. It must be a start point of every interaction of …show more content…

Let’s take the case of the South Korea (ROK) and the North Korea (DPRK) as an example. These two countries can be the good instance that can show why the absence of interaction leads incomplete diplomacy, though both countries do the official speech. Two nations which are located in the same peninsula use almost same language. The differences of two tongues regarded as the differences of the standard language and dialect. Everyone in each nation, even the young age children, can recognize what opposite country said to them. If the DPRK speaks aggressive contents in their broadcasts, people of the ROK can understand it as a threat to them. On the other hand, people of the DPRK consider the very utterance as the means to strengthen the position of their own country to the international society. In this case, there was an official remark, and the citizens of two countries understand the denotation of the speech, though they differently accept the same comment. Therefore, they have already satisfied some factors of diplomacy; however, we can’t define this situation as the diplomacy because the DPRK made one-sided declaration, ignoring the position of the

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