Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Blog 4: North Korea vs South Korea



            The Australian reported that if North Korea’s international allies, South Korea, continue to push for tougher United Nations resolutions then the country would face its “final destruction”.  The conference they usually have is where the two countries trade jabs but this time North Korea’s recent nuclear test that happened on Tuesday added some urgency to the remarks. The European Union condemned the nuclear test that happened on February 12 by North Korea and have now no longer enforced trade and economic authorizations from the Asian nation. The European Union finance ministers said that they condemned the last nuclear test that North Korea did and demanded that they withdraw from further tests and sign the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty immediately. The European Union ministers also “banned the export of components for ballistic missiles such as certain types of aluminum and they prohibited trade in new public bonds from North Korean”. On Tuesday President Lee Myung-bak said “that North Korea will only face international sanctions and isolation if it hangs on to its nuclear and missile programs.” South Korea wants tighter U.N. sanctions on North Korea ever since the third nuclear test that happened last week underground, even though North Korea told them “it was an act of deterrence against U.S. hostility.”  
    
          When trying to analyze this situation you can go in two different directions. The first direction that can happen is South Korea wants to overtake North Korea by getting them to stop with the missiles and stop with the nuclear testing. The European ministers are doing everything in their power to stop North Korea and seems like they just want to protect South Korea. So this situation can lead back to power, prestige, and property. The power comes from the European Union and South Korea especially since the European Union is stopping all imports of anything that could help make another missile and making/wanted North Korea to sign a treaty that bans the use of nuclear missile testing.                                                                                                                                                                  The second direction that you could look at is the fact that North Korea is just using their missiles to protect them and South Korea is getting scared so they want the missiles gone and with the missiles gone North Korea has nothing to protect them with. This situation could possibly lead to a unnecessary war and North Korea is causing a lot of conflict between them and other nations and in fact are being selfish because they are not really thinking about their people when it comes to the fact that some imports are no longer allowed to go to their country but then again they are protecting their country with the nuclear missiles. It all really gets back the fact that one country has something the other country wants or is in fear of the missile being used on them so they are going to get power involved and try to prevent it from happening at least to them. 

New UN resolutions prompt North Korea to issue stark warning to South Korea
LeeAnna Souther
2-19-2013 8:24 pm

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