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Should the US involve North Korea?
Ending a Crisis and Restoring Balance
Khushboo Shah, India
The territory of North Korea is a space of military containment and ideological restrictions. A nation built on a watch-dog routine; it requires each and every citizen to be profoundly self-reliant. The only irony is that, the very ‘democratic’ North Korean idea of self-reliance interprets to Juche; an ideology which authorities promote as jingoistic activism, wherein the citizens are forced to live in complete submission to national sovereignty and unquestionable totalitarianism....
The abuse of human rights is the primary reason for us to intervene in North Korean politics, while the secondary reason is to maintain the balance of power in South-East Asia. The strained diplomatic ties between North Korea and South Korea cause the exploitation of millions of innocent lives, and the tense relations between China and North Korea are important calls to action for the international community. A revolution is needed in order for North Korea to regain its basic fundamental rights, and for this revolution to take place, leaders have to wake up a revolutionary spirit among the international community.
Invading North Korea Legitimizes Its Own Propaganda
Collin McGinn, USA
...Since the Korean War, the United States has yet to drop another bomb on North Korea, but its actions, from trade sanctions to diplomatic isolation to continuous military exercises around its coast, have shown little regard for anything but the nation’s destruction at every level, and the North has yet to forget history – according to Dr. Leonid Petrov, a Korea expert at the University of Sydney, “The regime pays a great deal of attention to the topic of the Korean War because it justifies its own legitimacy, helps mobilise the masses around the top leader, and provides the pattern for people’s self-sacrificing behaviour in economic life.” Even without propaganda, the United States’ own actions on the Korean Peninsula were borderline genocide in order to prop up a regime that would be itself torn apart by its own people in 1960, and, were we to intervene again, the question must be asked – would North Korea’s peoples see us as liberators or as butchers? And which would we truly be?
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