How to Manage North Korea
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This connected to my past experience in that my whole life really I have heard about the threat of North Korea. One of the constants in my life is the danger hanging over my head, over all of our heads. I look back to the cold war, I look back to a lot of history, and an interesting thing is that we learn to live with our lives threatened, hanging on the whims of a single man. And we learn to live with it. There are many things that we learn to live with, and a far-off danger of world domination. It was also connected in my mind to Neville Chamberlain and his appeasement attempts. The podcast talked about the fact that Trump's communication with N. Korea isn't producing any tangible effects, other than the taking down of anti-American posters which are still "in a storage closet". So with Neville Chamberlain, we saw that he talked, and because he tell himself that he was doing something, he felt content to do nothing else.
This connected to my past experience in that my whole life really I have heard about the threat of North Korea. One of the constants in my life is the danger hanging over my head, over all of our heads. I look back to the cold war, I look back to a lot of history, and an interesting thing is that we learn to live with our lives threatened, hanging on the whims of a single man. And we learn to live with it. There are many things that we learn to live with, and a far-off danger of world domination. It was also connected in my mind to Neville Chamberlain and his appeasement attempts. The podcast talked about the fact that Trump's communication with N. Korea isn't producing any tangible effects, other than the taking down of anti-American posters which are still "in a storage closet". So with Neville Chamberlain, we saw that he talked, and because he tell himself that he was doing something, he felt content to do nothing else.
E
My thinking was extended by the fact that I hadn't realised the exact ramifications of the actions, nor did I realise how powerful Kim Jung Un was, nor how politically savvy. I hadn't realised how the dynastic nature of the rule means that any indecision brought on by democracy will seem as great weakness and perhaps betrayal.
C
I am still challenged by the question 'what can we do?' I don't quite get why he is still being left to simmer and what is the best way of fixing it. I'm not sure why North Korea is tolerated, considering the things that they do, the human rights abuses, the threats, etc. I'm also still challenged by what the difference is between N. Korea and other countries such as Pakistan or Iran. Surely the same fears fo regime-ending exists for all of them?
C
I am still challenged by the question 'what can we do?' I don't quite get why he is still being left to simmer and what is the best way of fixing it. I'm not sure why North Korea is tolerated, considering the things that they do, the human rights abuses, the threats, etc. I'm also still challenged by what the difference is between N. Korea and other countries such as Pakistan or Iran. Surely the same fears fo regime-ending exists for all of them?
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