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Intent Is Everything

 "Seoul may eventually be able to build better missiles and scrutinize North Korea with a better satellite. ...There are dual purposes in space technology."
Professor King Chang-duk, South Korea's Chosun University, department of rocket science

Impoverished and xenophobic North Korea has demonstrated its scientific prowess and social irresponsibility with utter lack of morality in complacently watching its indigent population starve itself into a stunted growth-rate impacting future generations, for the investment in a far greater value; the costly creation of a state nuclear program. With, of course, the lavish expenditures required to perfect a rocket ballistic program. And as an added statement of prowess, surveillance satellites.

Each time North Korea becomes incensed at being condemned by the international community for its belligerent threats against its neighbours, its launching of more ballistic missiles in its search for longer ranges the better to make good on its threats and lob warheads at even longer range in support of its threat to hit U.S. interests, it defies the UN and the world community even further. It has announced its intention to set off a third nuclear test explosion.

South Korea lives uneasily with its intractable, irascible neighbour whose leader seems closer to the psychopath on the lunacy scale than a national leader, but whose armed forces like him just the way he is. Now South Korea, which represents Asia's fourth-largest economy has advanced its space program as well as its reputation as a technological giant whose smartphones and vehicles are in global demand.

It has launched a satellite of its own into space from its own soil, adding to those launched on its behalf by other technologically advanced countries that have the rocket science at a stage that South Korea aspired to but struggled to achieve. South Korea has developed its science and technology in a responsible manner, one trusted in international circles through its agreement to participate in non-proliferation covenants.

The South has matched the North for national pride in scientific and technological accomplishments with a vast difference in cultural and societal norms. The strident, menacing belligerence of North Korea requires a strong reproach and warning contained in South Korea's success, even while the North fulminates that there is a double standard practised by the international community and the UN between itself and its South Korean neighbour.

North Korea is incapable of discerning its own stupidity where its pride and deliberate shunning of responsibility has led to its pariah status.

Labels: Conflict, Controversy, Crisis Politics, Munitions, North Korea, Nuclear Technology, South Korea, Technology, United Nations

posted by Pieface @ Thursday, January 31, 2013