North Korea, What Did the U.S. Expect?

Wednesday, May 27, 2009


In case anyone hasn't been keeping up with the international news, the struggle in Sri Lanka is no longer the only U.S.'s only concern. North Korea, who has long been under U.N.'s watchful eyes, "shocked" everyone when it conducted a underground test of a nuclear weapon and several short-range missile launches in Pyongyang, its capital city. The test sent a clear message to the world: North Korea has nuclear capabilities. So the problem now is: what are they going to do with this power?

The U.N. is now terrifed that North Korea would soon put its nuclear missiles on the market as part of its billion dollar weapons trade. The U.S. also feel threatened, because the weapons could soon end up in the hand of terrorists. Both scenarios are very plausible, and is probably what North Korea is planning right now with its increasing secrecy. But truth be told, what did everyone expect?

Hey, we made them!

Think about it: we have never really treated North Korea as our friend. They are not one of our active trade partners. In fact, not only has the U.S. been closely monitoring them, even China has put them on its watch list. There are several countries in similar positions, and we're either fighting a war with them, or they are fighting amongst themselves. But North Korea is different. Its civil war has ended, and the country being the way it is, so instead of fighting, the country's president wants Kim Il-sung what every leader wants: make the country thrive and . To do that, North Korea needs resources.

But what does it have? It can't rely on the Western World, because we don't trust them! It can't rely on China, because that bully only needs an excuse to invade. But North Korea has weapons. Not only that, it has a kind of manopoly because it is willing to sell weapons to countries blacklisted by the world's power centrals. Also, by selling weapons to these countries, they would, in a sense, become North Korea's allies. So if war breaks out, North Korea would actually have a chance to stand its ground.

The U.N. can try to rally against North Korea, and the world leaders can condemn the country all they want. But I wonder how many of them ask themselves: what possible incentives would North Korea has to stop?




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