Waddup Blog people! So today I wanna talk about the North Korean crisis, considering the fact that there is a "today" and we haven't been blown up! :D Now I just tell you guys that this isn't actually a new "threat" I mean literally North Korea's been doing this for the past 50 years but this time the crazy has just escalated a bit.
So fast-forward to now... North Korea is basically just pissed off at the UN sanctions against them, which state that North Korea must "not conduct any further nuclear test or launch of a ballistic missile", "suspend all activities related to its ballistic missile programme" and "abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programmes in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner", and China who is literally North Korea's only ally are supporting them ( the sanctions, not North Korea) and North Korea recently tested nuclear weapons ( which is a clear violation of the sanctions ) and this is scary because they're probably the only state left on earth crazy enough to actually use them!
Now onto "Why North Korea is doing this" , well as I said before they're angry at the UN, cause they want to have these nuclear weapons for some reason, but also it's more likely that this is some sorta a power game. I mean North Korea knows that the US is a world power and in confronting them they give their own citizens a picture of their country being a world power, which as we all know it isn't! But, their people actually buy this, I mean the people in North Korea know nothing about anything outside their country, and this is mainly because of the nationalized media, which is insanely self-involved in it's news such that nobody inside the country actually knows what's really happening in the rest of the world. So they keep playing these, for the lack of a better word, "tantrums" (referring to war threats and violating sanctions) and this has actually been working for them. Because everybody wants a peaceful Asia and to do so people are willing to compromise for this "stubborn child" so that there is no need for war.
Thankfully though, the leaders of North Korea aren't as backward as their citizens, and they know that if they ever try actually end up attacking anyone they're wiped off the map in no time. So rest assured that this won't be the end of the world, but just a show of "need for recognition" by an isolated state.
\/ Nikhil Gopal AKA That Indian Kid.
Now let's take a second to focus on North Korea itself. Apart from being on of the worlds worst places to live in ( I mean literally, they only get television content from inside their own country! ), it is also a "democracy" (WHAT!?!!). I ain't kidding, it says right there in the title "The Democratic People's Republic of Korea" and people can vote! There's like only one candidate in the ballot and you could write someone in to contest in the elections, but then you'd be considered "an enemy of the state" (AKA guilty of treason) and sent to concentration camps, where the conditions are just horrible. And it's not just you who gets sent to the camp but your entire family too, your kids grow up and live those camps and so do their kids! THREE GENERATIONS of people are trapped in these concentration camps. There're people in those concentration camps today, because their grand-parents sympathized with South Korea during the Korean War! Plus North Korea follows the policy of "Hereditary Rule" which has survived since the 18th century, which is just sad for the people living there! And also North Korea's official ideology is "Juche," a totally self-serving invention of Kim Il-Sung (the country's previous leader before Kim Jong-un and also Kim Jong-un's father ) which combines Stalinsm and Maoism with idiotic religious worship of Kim Il-Sung, and now his son and grandson. As part of the Juche ideology, North Korea's government is a dictatorship of three groups in society: the industrial proletariat, farmers and peasants, and intellectuals. This is in contrast to the usual Communist notion that the dictatorship is of the industrial proletariat only, and, one supposes, makes North Korea slightly less bad in comparison to Cambodia under Pol Pot, who had all the intellectuals executed. Furthermore, after the fall of the USSR, the official North Korean propaganda shifted away from Communism (though much of the imagery in sculptures, etc. remained), and a few years ago references to Communism were removed entirely. So yeah, I guess you could call North Korea, in the words of John Green, " Absolute Totalitarian Multi-party Hereditary Military Dictatorship."
So fast-forward to now... North Korea is basically just pissed off at the UN sanctions against them, which state that North Korea must "not conduct any further nuclear test or launch of a ballistic missile", "suspend all activities related to its ballistic missile programme" and "abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programmes in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner", and China who is literally North Korea's only ally are supporting them ( the sanctions, not North Korea) and North Korea recently tested nuclear weapons ( which is a clear violation of the sanctions ) and this is scary because they're probably the only state left on earth crazy enough to actually use them!
Now onto "Why North Korea is doing this" , well as I said before they're angry at the UN, cause they want to have these nuclear weapons for some reason, but also it's more likely that this is some sorta a power game. I mean North Korea knows that the US is a world power and in confronting them they give their own citizens a picture of their country being a world power, which as we all know it isn't! But, their people actually buy this, I mean the people in North Korea know nothing about anything outside their country, and this is mainly because of the nationalized media, which is insanely self-involved in it's news such that nobody inside the country actually knows what's really happening in the rest of the world. So they keep playing these, for the lack of a better word, "tantrums" (referring to war threats and violating sanctions) and this has actually been working for them. Because everybody wants a peaceful Asia and to do so people are willing to compromise for this "stubborn child" so that there is no need for war.
Thankfully though, the leaders of North Korea aren't as backward as their citizens, and they know that if they ever try actually end up attacking anyone they're wiped off the map in no time. So rest assured that this won't be the end of the world, but just a show of "need for recognition" by an isolated state.
\/ Nikhil Gopal AKA That Indian Kid.
