The
United Nations Security Council said on Tuesday they were trying to expand
sanctions that penalize North Korea for its nuclear and ballistic missile activities.
The US and China introduced a proposition that would target North Korean bankers
and overseas cash couriers, tighten inspections of suspect ship and air cargo
and subject the country’s diplomats to invasive scrutiny and increased risk of removal.
“When North Korea heard this they were infuriated and vowed to scrap the 1953
armistice that halted the Korean War and threatened to attack the US with what
the North Korean government news agency called an arsenal of diverse lighter
and smaller nukes.” The threat that
North Korea said seemed to be provocative because two days before that they conveyed
a warm message of friendship to a visiting American group. The UN ambassador
announces that the resolution would target “the illicit activities of North
Korean diplomatic personnel, North Korean banking relationships, illicit
transfers of bulk cash and new travel restrictions.” “North Korea’s
particularly bellicose reaction on Tuesday to an accumulation of perceived
affronts: China’s cooperation in drafting the sanctions, the annual military
exercises under way between the United States and South Korea, and a hardened
attitude toward the North by the South’s newly elected president, Park
Geun-hye.” They think this is North Korea’s way of saying “we know what you are
doing and this is what we have to say about it.” I have followed North
Korea for a couple of weeks now, they have threatened the people they needed
the most and they have caused a lot of people to be angry with them. At first I
thought they were just doing it to show their power and the fact that they can
protect themselves and be like everyone else. Now I think they have gone too
far they keep threatening states with attacking them, and they are threatening
South Korea to cut their ties. I think this is when North Korea should say “OK I
surrender”. They are causing people to want a war against their own country;
they are causing their people harm. They are turning people against them,
people that they need the most like China and the UN is even going against them
now. I think when looking at this issue North Korea is egging everything on and
not trying to do anything to prevent form happen they are making themselves
look stupid and eventually they are going to be left out on their own to defend
for themselves because no one is going to want to help them. I understand that
North Korea wants to show other states and other countries what they have and
how we should “be afraid” but they have instead caused massive chaos and caused
a ton of people to be against them.
U.N. Resolution to Aim at North Korean Banks and Diplomats
LeeAnna Souther
Soc 202-02 03/05/2013 7:03pm
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