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Persuasive Essay On North Korea

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If you turn on your TV right now, you will realize that most of the news media platform are talking about North Korea. Specifically about their nuclear weapon. It has been over twenty years since North Korea started developing nuclear weapon; and it has accelerate the process of piling up the nuclear weapons in the last few years. United states and most of the world power have been dissuading North Korea from developing and producing nuclear weapon any further. However, under the current president of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, things are not going as smooth as the rest of the world desire. With the nuclear tests that North Korea has launched, there a big percentage that the world is about to witness a World War Three. To understand where is the issue coming …show more content…

And why United States is making it a big deal, and keep in mind that many countries has tested and developed nuclear weapons. "If you follow North Korean media you constantly see bellicose language directed against the US and South Korea and occasionally Japan is thrown in there, and it's hard to know what to take seriously. But then when you look at occasions where something really did happen, such as the artillery attack on a South Korean island in 2010, you see there were very clear warnings," Professor John Delury at South Korea's Yonsei university told the BBC. while the North might struggle to hit the US, it could target US interests in the region. There are more than 28,000 US military personnel based in South Korea, another 40,000 in Japan and a large military base in Guam, a US territory off the Philippines. Even if a missile is launched from the North, Washington has insisted it is "fully capable" of blocking any attack against it or its allies.The US is also obliged to defend Japan if it is attacked under the terms of the post-World War II security alliance between Washington and

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