ENC 1101-B3 & B4: Writing for Discovery

The dark and morbid setting is unsettling 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. Opposing forces on both sides are constantly on duty, separated only by the cold barbed-wire fences. This is the most dangerous place in the world. This is the border between North and South Korea, the most heavily guarded border in the world.

Underlying animosities toward each other make this border even more dangerous. North Korea has numerous nuclear missiles pointed at the capital of Seoul. Seoul is only 30 miles away from the border which is easily within the North Korean artillery range. Behind North Korea lies no real country anymore. North Korea consists of corrupt leaders of a dying regime who do not want to lose power. Their government efforts are based solely upon their military and nuclear program. Their aim is only to protect the old dying regime of the country from invasion.

North Korea is receiving aid each year from the United Nations to “feed its starving people“. However, this aid is tainted by the corrupt hands of the North Korean regime before it ever gets to the people. The aid is meant to feed the starving North Korean population, but, of course, Kim Jung-Il had no regard for his brethren. Roughly one-fifth of the United Nations’ budget one year went to food aid for North Korea. Kim Jung-Il used every cent of that 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 by keeping one of the strongest standing militaries in the world. 1.3 Million active infantry and the largest special operations forces in the world consisting of 100,000 soldiers. This is evidence that North Korea has no other investments in its country but military. This is how they continually negotiate in the world.

Every year, North Korea will bargain with the world by showing off its military might. It emulates countries that flaunt their military success to frighten their neighbors into submission. However, this should be looked upon as a pitiful effort by desperate leaders. They pointlessly shoot missiles into the sea and create minor skirmishes with innocent South Korean 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 resembles a situation where a child whines and screams to get his parents’ attention.

They are clearly suffering inside their barbed-wired nation. They know that even one year without outside aid, their nation would see its own downfall. Also, most interestingly, North Korea historically 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 negotiating table. Why is this? Simply because the cold Korean winter presents a huge obstacle.
What kind of a country seriously panics 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 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, even that threat dies down more every day. China is North Korea’s only ally, but even China is beginning to have its own disputes with North Korea. The only thing that holds their alliance together is a cultural and historic bond. 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 its blinding ambitions would surely bring them both down. China realizes this and is now starting to frown upon North Korea’s international escapades. Now becoming more alone every day, North Korea solely relies on international aid.

However, if this aid was cut, 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. They have no alliances and no recent military technology other than nuclear. Even if North Korea would expend everything it has on a nuclear scale onto the South, the U.S. would immediately retaliate with ten times 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. would help us dominate a war through the air to demolish their standing army and the war would be a complete North Korean failure. Simply by numbers one can see that North Korea cannot possibly win a war with the world, and it is the world that is against them.

The South Korean army is 650,000 strong along with 37,000 active 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. The United States active military is roughly 450,000 strong, and we could easily deploy half of that, plus we have 800,000 in the reserve. We wouldn’t even need to pull up the draft. This all isn’t even counting troops from nations in the UN would send for the help!

In conclusion, if we cut off international aid 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 expose them for the dirty leaches that they are.