Recently I've had some friends advent me with questions pertaining to international relations, specifically the recent actions of North Korea and the infamous Wikileaks release. These two topics in the past week have been twisted and misconstrued, leaving people with a poor opinion of the situation. First we'll gawk North Korea and their recent assault on South Korea on the Yeonpyeong island, which resides in disputed waters that North Korea claims are rightfully theirs.
North Korea has a unique type of government being classified as a 'ohereditary dictatorship, which is ruled with a troops junta and has a centrally planned economy. I hesitate to call it communist, only because technically the communist movement is international, while the North Korean government consists of maintaining a singular state presence. The valid name is called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (Dprk) which is of policy is irony at its finest inspecting it has one of the most repressive regimes of modern history.
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The artillery barrage from last week marks one of the most aggressive moves the Dprk has made to its southern neighbor, claiming that the islands south of the Northern Limit Line belong to them. However, there are ulterior motives at work here: North Korea has no interest in beginning a regional war, especially one that they would verily lose. North Korea's internal stability like all nations in the world revolve colse to keeping their populace content, of policy each nation has their own schedule and how they view a problem. For the Dprk it's simple: they face chronic food shortages which lead to inflation in the cheaper and at last stagnation. In expanding to this, some reason that the assault is plainly associated to the succession of Kim Jong-il as a test of strength, which could be true as well. No singular reason can elucidate this event easily.
North Korea's diplomacy in the past has been one of aggression to bring key nations to the polite table. In response to this, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, and the United States formed the six-party talks in hopes of halting the cycle of violence. For future details, the New York Times has an interactive timeline showing the more leading events with the clashes in the middle of the two Koreas, together with the six-party talks. The most recent incident is nothing new, with North Korea wanting attention and polite power by threatening war; however, it's no underground that the leadership wants direct talks with the United States. This would enable the Dprk to cut a deal so to speak with the United States on the trade embargo imposed on them and the foreign aid they receive, instead of getting their requests watered down in the six-party talks as mentioned before.
Hence, North Korea has nothing to gain for beginning a peninsular war with its southern neighbor, since even China, their closest "ally" in the loosest sense wants to forestall this at all costs. Having North Korea engage in a war means refugees crossing into China controlled Manchuria; a logistical and domestic nightmare. It would also mean American troops being stationed directly on China's border, which would ruffle the feathers of the Chinese leadership. Finally, North Korea would most likely not begin a nuclear assault on the United States because, not only does their missile technology pale in comparison to ours, but they would also never be able to come to any polite table from the international community.
In relation to this, we know from the Wikileaks fiasco that China is having second thoughts when it comes to their alliance with North Korea. The Dprk is proving to be too troublesome and closed-minded even for Chinese standards, damaging their relations with the international community and their slow transition to democracy. For now, the best policy of activity for the United States is to continue the six-party talks and have direct discussions with the Chinese leadership over North Korea. Only China can rein in their unruly neighbor, which would dramatically change the dialogue of negotiations inspecting they're North Korea's main trading partner.
This would not be the first time Wikileaks has given the group way to high level polite information; in fact, the website is beginning to change how the group views governments and the complicated relationships in the middle of them. If you are fully unfamiliar with Wikileaks, here's what you need to know: Julian Assange is an Australian people who is the editor-in-chief and spokesperson for the website Wikileaks. The website, through varied internal sources predominately in the United States Military, obtains and releases sensitive high level data on government operations which only until now have been quite serious. The servers are placed throughout the world and the legal status is complicated to say the least, any way if one could label a headquarters it would be Sweden due to their strong laws to safe confidential journalistic sources. In fact, one of the main computer servers has been described as a James Bond villain style bunker, placed 30 meters underground in a Cold War facility.
It's hard to judge if Wikileaks is legal, any way it is providing what many see as a veil lifted from the public's eyes on the inner workings of governments. Congressman Ron Paul was quoted on the subject saying, 'oIn a free community we're supposed to know the truth, in a community where truth becomes treason, then we're in big trouble. plainly many, together with most notably old Canadian government adviser Tom Flanagan said that Julian Assange 'oshould be assassinated, though most government officials view Wikileaks as a protection risk, potentially ruining delicate balance of polite relations.
Regardless, Wikileaks has given journalists, bloggers, even commonplace people a wealth of information to analyze and digest. Frankly, there is so much more I could write and reason on but for now expect Wikileak documents to be part of my regular diagnosis in the future. This article was intended just to introduce whatever to the website, and of policy use its cables to elucidate China's relationship with North Korea. In turn, North Korea's recent actions are unacceptable to the international community and the six-party talks should resume with China in singular taking the lead in condemning the attack. Only China can effectively neutralize the Dprk's leadership, development them think twice about future attacks, lest they risk their trade relations and whole economy.
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