Blog 8: North Korea threatens U.S bases

            On Thursday North Korea threatened to attack American military bases in Japan and on the Pacific islands of Guam in retaliation for recent training missions by American B-52 bombers over South Korea. North Korea has threatened American forces before but the latest warning comes with heightened tension this time. The tension may begin to rise because on Thursday The United Nations Human rights council created a commission to look into allegations of human rights violations in North Korea including the incarceration of political prisoners at labor camps and torture. The United Nations high commissioner for human rights has been calling for an investigation for months but they were fearful that the world’s preoccupation with the North’s growing nuclear arsenal overshadowed discussions of a human rights situation. This situation is called “the worst in the whole world”. The threats against American troops on Thursday were the latest in a stream of hatred from the North in the wake of the United Nations sanctions. According to South Korean officials the medium-range missiles that North Korea has are in range to hit the Japanese and American Pacific bases. Seoul and Washington remain alert over the possibility that the North might follow up on some of its loosely worded threats to attack the allies.                                                                                                                             North Korea continues to pronounce that they are going to attack South Korea and the United States. It still is clear that North Korea is trying to cause a preempted strike and that this is all about power, prestige, and property. From the beginning, from what was told in the articles, the United States did gave North Korea everything they wanted and North Korea let The United States know when they were going to have a test nuclear launch and now it has turned into threatens of killing people and killing our soldiers at that. The United States is doing the right thing by coming into an agreement with South Korea because they both can help each other out because they are both being threatened. The United States is also doing the right thing by also keeping track of the threats and what is going on and “getting ready “ just in case these threatens become true and actually happen. I still don’t understand why North Korea is doing what they are doing because we as the United States have helped out and that I know of there is no negative history between the US and North Korea. Hopefully with the UN getting involved something will get resolved and all this mess can just be forgotten and we won’t have to worry about getting bomb or even our soldiers getting harmed. 

North Korea Threatens U.S. Military Bases in Pacific

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/22/world/asia/north-korea-threatens-us-military-bases-in-the-pacific.html

 LeeAnna Souther

3-26-13  6:16pm