Korea Korea

Korea, Korea oh sweet North Korea. North Korea is a country that the world needs to worry about. This communist regime has an aging leader who is not considered to have the safety of the world in mind, nuclear weapons, and does not provide appropriate aid to its people. In terms of these three negative aspects, I believe that the third is quite often overlooked. The population of Korea is near 24 million and over 1/3 of these people do not receive an adequate amount of food. What is piled on top of these negative proponents of the society is how the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has denied the food aid that the United States has tried to give to the region. Adding even more to the problems of this situation is that sanctions put on North Korea seem to be having no effect at persuading the leaders to change their policies.

The question is what should be the United States actions in this situation? Although the U.S. has given food aid to the country, it seems that the major concern with North Korea is their possession of weapons of mass destruction. This worldly concern presents an opportunity for the U.S. to lead other powerful nations into establishing a joint policy to change North Korea's actions.

Currently, the United States believes that Aid-for-Disarmament will be the most effective policy to cause North Korea to stray from their dangerous path. Theoretically, if the U.S. was capable of leading all nations to taking this policy in negotiations with Korea, there could be the possibility that this policy would be effective. At the same time, this action could also cause Korea to threaten the world with WMDs and make a costly decision that could affect the world. More importantly, I think the sad thing about this miserable situation is the fact that in no way does it seem that the North Korean's citizens suffering will lessen. I believe that hard work could cause North Korea to change its opinion on accepting U.S. food aid but I still question why a program like Aid-for-disarmament cannot be used to counter human suffering. Global powers of the world could establish programs that provide economic aid to third world countries in return for freedom for citizens. As the super power of the world, I believe that the United States could use its powers of persuasion to lead countries to follow this type of policy so that there will be less human suffering in the world.