I feel very sorry for the people of South Korea. They are sitting on the other side of the border from a communist rogue state, and their government seems to think that they can support that state unboundedly without consequences. The people are protesting, but they need to do something quickly if they want to keep their national sovereignty. You’ll notice that there is fairly high rate of suicide in South Korea.
The UN isn’t doing anything about the situation. They didn’t do anything when the Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea (DPRK) kicked out the UN inspectors prior to their finishing of the nuclear weapon. They haven’t done anything when DPRK has repeatedly been absent at key UN meetings, and if you think that this new resolution that they finally passed is going to do anything, you’re wrong. This resolution comes as a response to North Korea’s recent testing of a nuclear bomb underground. However, it still implies no serious consequences to North Korea for its blatant defiance of international demands, treaties, and regulations. Apparently the UN feels perfectly content to impose on our national sovereignty, but cringes at the prospect of actually laying down the law on rogue nations. This resolution that passed would still be helpful though, if it was actually enforced. But it isn’t.
China is still supplying weapons, technology, food, and other aid to North Korea. This further proves the suspicion that some people have that DPRK is just the proxy of China to see how the Western world responds to a threat. However, you can expect a communist country like China to do that; what you don’t expect is South Korea, the nation most endangered by DPRK, to go easy on them. They are still pouring economic aid into North Korea in the name of friendly steps toward reunification (difference here between Germany and Korea: common people abolishing the divide themselves; and a free government trying to compromise with a rogue state that wants to kill everybody). South Korea continues to operate a resort inside DPRK for their government employees. Both these nations are refusing to abide by the rules set down in the UN resolution. Japan seems to be the only involved country that is actually implementing sanctions in punishment against North Korea. Japan has banned all trade with DPRK, and is stepping up surveillance on the country. However, they did this before the UN resolution was even passed, so it’s not like they are following the UN’s lead.
We need to toughen up on North Korea for its recent threats against the Western world, and show them that they can’t just threaten us and push us around without consequences. It’s not as if they can nuke the USA or possibly even Japan or South Korea currently, and if we take measures now, it will avoid the trap that we will be in when they get more technologically advanced. In the world today, and with the policy that we have already followed, we need to take affirmative action (in foreign relations, not racial matters, mind you).
*Image from World Magazine
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