ENC 1101-B3 & B4: Writing for Discovery

The dark and morbid setting is unsetting to the stomach. Looking over the open acres, one can only imagine how dangerous the biggest open minefield in the world can be. Snipers in their towers line the border, manned 24/7, stare and follow even the most innocent of tourists with their scopes. Barbed-wire lines the cold steel fence that separates these two opposing forces, on duty constantly. This is the most dangerous place in the world. This is the border between North and South Korea.

So many underlying animosities toward each other make this border even the more dangerous. North Korea has numerous nuclear missiles pointed at the capital of Seoul, roughly 30 miles from the border (this is in simple artillery range). Behind North Korea lies no real country anymore. All North Korea consists of anymore is corrupt leaders of a dying regime who do not want to lose power. They have no other government efforts based on anything else besides their military, to protect the decaying upper leaders from invasion.

North Korea has repeatedly received aide from the United Nations and from the United States over the years. However, this aide was tainted by the corrupt hands of the North Korean regime before it could ever get to the people. The aide was meant to feed the starving North Korean population but of course Kim Jung-Il had no regard for his brethren. Roughly 1/5 of the United Nations budget one year went to food aide for North Korea. Instead, Kim Jung-Il used every cent of the money to buy a fleet of Mercedes-Benz luxury vehicles.

For 50 years, North Korea has been in a state of decay. They have no hope of progressing as a respectable country under Kim Jung-Il and deep down even that monster knows it. He keeps his foot in the international ground through one of the largest standing military in the world. 1.3 Million active infantry and roughly 100,000 of that army is a special ops force: the largest in the world. This is evidence that North Korea has no other investments in it’s country but military. This is how they are able to continually negotiate in the world.

Every year, North Korea will bargain with the world by showing off it’s military might. By doing this, it emulates a country that flaunts it’s military success and scares it’s neighbors into submission. This, however, should more be looked upon as a pitiful effort by desperate leaders. They pointlessly shoot missiles into the sea and create minor pointless skirmishes among fishing boats. This is all to get international attention so that they may be a bargaining party and have a say in the world. It’s just like when a child wines and screams to get it’s parents attention.

They are clearly suffering inside their barbed-wired nation. They know that even 1 year without aide from outside could mean their nations downfall. Also, most interestingly, North Korea historically every year creates the most chaos right before the winter season. Every year before the winter, they’ll do something like missile testing or threatening other countries to get onto a negotiation table with countries. Why is this? Simply because the cold Korean winter presents a huge obstacle.
What kind of a country seriously panicks this much over a winter season? This is unheard of since the days of early colonies in the 1600s that a winter could affect a civilization! They are so behind the times and are rotting from the inside even more every day. If North Korea did not receive outside aid for even one year, they would surely do something drastic to secure their prosperity.

The only real threat they present is on a military basis, and granted, it is a huge threat. However, that threat even dies down more every day. North Korea’s only real ally left in the world is China, but more and more every day, China grows wary of their ally. The only thing that holds their alliance together is cultural and their types of government. China however is becoming more democratic and more capitalistic every day, unlike North Korea.

China in this day of age wants to be a major super power, and aiding North Korea in it’s blinding ambitions would surely bring them both down. China realizes this, and is now starting to frown upon some international North Korean actions. Now becoming more alone every day, North Korea solely relies on international aide.

If this aide was cut however, North Korea would be desperate and would have to comply with international terms. If this did not happen, their only other option would be a full scale war to go down with one last-ditch effort. Desperate times call upon desperate measures so no one could accurately predict which course of action North Korea would take. However, either action would guarantee the end of the terrorizing regime.

North Korea would not survive another war. Despite their strong army, they have no technology other than nuclear and no allies. Even if North Korea would expend everything it had on a nuclear scale onto the South, the U.S. would immediately retaliate with 10x as much nuclear power to topple North Korea in that same day. North Korea realizes this and would not commit nuclear suicide in this way.

So this proves that on a military account North Korea will not stand. Our allies from the U.N. along with us would dominate a war through the air to demolish their standing army and the war would be a complete North Korean failure. The South Korean army is 650,000 strong along with 37,000 U.S. soldiers in Korea. Plus add on the standing 50,000+ other U.S. forces in the Pacific and the many contributing powers of the UN prove purely by number that the North Koreans could not stand the war.

So in conclusion, if we cut off international aide to North Korea they will surely fall. The evil regime would be toppled and we could save the starving millions of Korean people in the north. We should not allow the North to make fools of the international community any more and we should expose them for the dirty leaches that they are.