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The Pros And Cons Of North Korea

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North Korea’s nuclear weapons program is one of the many threats that the United States and its allies have to deal with in 2018. Kim Jung Un has conducted nuclear tests and experts believe he is now capable of striking the continental United States. The North Korea nuclear situation is one that has unpredictable outcomes. The President of the United States has called Kim Jung Un “Rocket Man” only to flip flop and suggest that the two leaders would be great friends. Both President Trump and Kim Jung Un have mentioned that they have nuclear weapon buttons on their desks with the size of the buttons coming into play. While the two leaders have a rocky relationship recent developments in international affairs suggest that North Korea may be …show more content…

In his article he mentioned four possible paths that could be taken, an all-out attack by the United States, a limited military attack, assassination of Kim Jung Un, and acceptance (accepting North Korea as a nuclear state). Bowden highlighted that none of these options were good options and that only time will tell. I am inclined to agree with him that there is no good outcome when it comes to dealing with North Korea and nuclear weapons. Diplomacy is currently the only option that has the potential for resolving the North Korea nuclear weapons problem without mass …show more content…

Nichols taught a class at Harvard’s extension school titled “Nuclear Weapons and International Security” where the students were learning about Nuclear Weapons and the Cold War, Nichols was teaching this class while the situation with North Korea was intensifying. On the last day of class Nichols told his students that what he wanted them to get out of the class was not his view or Putins view but that they should approach the question of North Korea and nuclear weapons with real

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The potential global issue that is raised within this text is the theoretical Interstate war between the rogue state North Korea and the United States caused by the weapons of mass destruction being developed by North Korea and their new capability to reach the USA due to the successful miniaturization of the war heads and the ability to apply them to intercontinental ballistic missiles. For example when the author, Richard. N. Haase, writes that the reasons for the meeting between the CIA and the President is: ‘North Korea has succeeded in making a nuclear bomb small enough to fit inside the tip of an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the continental United States.’ This theoretical war has recently become more and more of a

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Albert Einstein once said, “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” Seven years before Einstein’s death, Kim Il-Sung founded North Korea on September 9th, 1948. To this day, North Korea is steadfast in the threat of a nuclear war that could be the start of World War Three. If you were to ask anyone inside of North Korea if they felt safe, even with the lingering threat of being the start of the next world war, they would simply tell you they are thankful for their supreme leader. Their leader, who represents the third generation of a ruling dynasty, instills command and fear through rhetoric.

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North Korea’s problems with the United States of America did not just start in the 2000’s. In the first half of the 20th century before the Korean war, Japan controlled the Korean peninsula. That dramatically changed in the year 1945 at the end of WWII (Park 2013). A few years later, the Korean War from 1950 to 1953 changed North Korea’s history even more, along with their economic status.

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We were discussing current events and the topic of North Korea came up. We discovered that the North Korean government had resumed its nuclear program. This news did not make us afraid as we knew that North Korea’s technology was subpar. Though the time of seeing North Korea as a minor inconvenience has passed. Every day the media bombards me about the threat called North Korea.

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It first started in 2004, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea otherwise known as North Korea “claims that it has nuclear weapons.” (Niksch) Recently, there has been fear and panic in the United States after continuous threats from North Korea. However, in the past, the United States have been on the other side of this threat. In the 1940’s Japan was in fear of Nuclear bombs and the fallout they would bring.

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"About 46% of republicans support a preemptive strike on North Korea today-compare that with just 42% of republicans who say they don’t support it. Only 16% of democrats favor the idea of striking against North Korea, while 77% oppose it, according to a New Quinnipiac University poll." (Silva, Christianna. “Republicans Want Trump to Go to War with North Korea before Kim Jong Un Attacks the U.S.” Newsweek, 12 Oct. 2017. ) The issues between the United States and North Korea arose when North Korea started threatening South Korea and Japan, who are allies with the United States causing us to get involved.

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There is a danger with North Korea and Iran having a nuclear and ballistic trade relation. We as a nation need to make sure that North

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As LeMay would later say, the only lesson learned in Korea was, “how not to use a strategic air weapon.” That for the remainder of the Cold War, the US and the Soviet Union engaged in proxy wars all over the world, speaks to the ineffectiveness of nuclear weapons as a conventional deterrent. Land war, it turned out, was not obsolete. Following the conflict in Korea, nuclear deterrence was forced to evolve to a concept solely aimed at preventing a preemptive nuclear attack by the Soviet Union. By changing the role of nuclear weapons, the conflict in Korea was also able to change the calculus regarding soviet expansion and the viability of limited

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North Korea is having issues with their leader because he is a dictator. Big Brother and Kim Jong Un are both dictators. They demand respect and do not give people choices when it comes to freedom. Jonathan Emord explains “self preservation is a powerful motivation for any dictator. For a young one perceived as immature and weak, the need to prove otherwise can lead to extreme actions, such as attacks on South Korea or even on the US military.

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Different stories, Same goal. Do you think democracy in fair? In “12 Angry Men” by Reginald Rose and “Democracy” by Langston Hughes both authors want justice for people . However, Rose states that everyone has a say in democracy while Hughes wants blacks to have freedom in democracy.

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North Korea is currently under a communist party system and they will tell their whole population that they are the best country in the world, they are stronger than anyone, and are willing to fight if anyone were to mess with them. Even though presumably everyone in that country likely believes this, nearly all of that isn’t true. North Korea is a not a very wealthy country, most citizens have little money, the economy is very poor, and the country seems to go through continuous cycles of food shortages

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Despite the fact that the Cold War has been over since the early 1990’s with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the topic of nuclear weapon development is still circulating. The issue as a whole is a very complex issue, containing too many intertwined conflicts and and loose ends, so therefore it cannot be clearly defined, creating a problem on finding a clear and clean cut solution. But there are ways America can protect itself while as our nation wrestles with the problem as it rears it’s head within foreign relations. “Nuclear reductions and the heady dreams of abolition are driven in part by a belief that nukes are Cold War anachronisms. But it would be incorrect- dangerous, in fact-to assume that the conditions that have allowed the United States to de-emphasize its atomic arsenal will persist.

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Everyone has their own opinion about North Korea. Some people believe North Korea is the best place in the world *cough cough North Koreans* or some people believe it is the worst place in the world *cough cough 95% of the world*. “ North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is a country in East Asia, in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula. As one senior Chinese diplomat once put it to me after several toasts -- ‘North Korea is like a can of dog food. If you leave it unopened on the shelf, then it can last a very long time.

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The North Korean government has the world on edge with their nuclear testing. In order to understand why North Korea poses such an enormous threat some background information will give great contexts. The country of North Korea was formed in 1948 and was called The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea(DPRK). The united Nations divided the Korean peninsula at the 38th parallel giving responsibility of the north to Russia and the south to the United States.

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North Korea has quickened its questionable rocket program in the last couple months, completing a chain of provocative tests. In spite of overall judgment, North Korea leader, Kim Jong- un has kept on expanding the capability of his arms specifically against his Western opponent. Last month North Korea tested a missile that passed through Japan, starting vigilant and Japanese government evacuate some cities in Japan. Even more dangerous some new research showed that North Korea is capable to reach significantly far beyond East Asia. Which will put the whole world in risk of a nuclear attack.

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