Poor Misunderstood North Korea
"The DPRK, upon request by the U.S. and with a view to maintaining positive atmosphere for the DPRK-U.S. high-level talks agreed to a moratorium on nuclear tests, long-range missile launches, and uranium enrichment activity at Yongbyon and allow the IAEA to monitor the moratorium on uranium enrichment while productive dialogues continue." North Korea official ECNA news agencyNorth Korea humbled by the need of its people? How likely is that to occur in that shuttered, dysfunctional, military-led country which takes such delight in shocking the world community by its bad-boy antics? Hasn't the international community been fiddled excessively by North Korea in the past? And now having another go at it?
It's been years of negotiating, agreement and sudden reversals, but this hasn't been identified as a cat-and-mouse game greatly entertaining to North Korea? South Korea's 'sunshine' policies toward its darkly sinister, closed-society ethnic twin was an abject failure. With North Korea demonstrating how indebted it felt to South Korea by bombing its geography and striking/sinking a naval vessel at the loss of South Korean soldiers.
Not to mention lobbing a new, far-range missile toward Tokyo. And grabbing the incredulous world's attention by celebrating two nice little nuclear bombs. Look at us, aren't we clever? Thank you, thank you Pakistan.
Actually, you've got to hand it to the United States, the world's self-acknowledged international playground monitor, determined to keep the juvenile delinquents of the international community in check lest their irrational moves disrupt the balance of peace in various parts of the world. Their patience and diligence in initiating new talks, resuming old ones, is beyond reproach.
For much depends upon it. Just ask Japan and South Korea, in the case of North Korea. Even China, which had traditionally, chucked North Korea under the chin and chided it to behave nicely must become a tad nervous on occasion. Particularly when it is faced with the nuisance of an influx of starving North Korean refugees flooding its border.
But, yet again, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is prepared to permit UN-IAEA nuclear inspectors to tread on their soil and poke their nosy cameras, files and gauges around North Korea's nuclear installations. The usual defiance in support of another rogue regime it has kindly aided to nuclear power appears subdued. It may be too much to hope that Kim Jong-un has decided to depart from his dear-leader father's modus operandi, but time will tell.
One thing that has not changed in that morosely-secretive country is the level of poverty and starvation, disease and misery experienced by the Jong-loyal people of North Korea. They have, after all, been manipulated and socialized since birth to hail their successive hereditary leaders as immortal, though death doth take them in their due time. It seems simply too much to hope that the plight of his people has moved Kim Jong-un to declare a truce, to set aside belligerent military ambitions for food for his starving population.
But the North has offered those concessions for aid. In a sense it makes sense, doesn't it, for how can you have a population that steadily, irrevocably expires; who will there be to rule and lord it over if too many of the unwashed die, after all?
Labels: North Korea, Political Realities, Poverty, Technology, Terrorism, United States
posted by Pieface @ Thursday, March 01, 2012
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