4/22/2017 5 Comments North korea 2017Every year there seems to be without delay some sort of threat from the North Korean Kim regime. It usually lands somewhere near the time they celebrate the Day of the Sun, or the birthday of their dictator Kim. This threat most usually entails some sort of missile threat, demonstration or nuclear weapons test that they use to show their own people their imminent power and to get more resources from their allies China.
Though, in the not so recent times China has stopped supporting North Korea, in fact it has completely stopped buying coal from North Korea, which is North Korea's main export. It has also meet and spoke with the U.S. regarding the matters of what to do with the now unwanted state. China should be concerned. If North Korea launches even a single nuke in the general direction of the US we can all safely assume the US response will be to obliterate North Korea. China doesn't want that kind of action so close to its borders. Although, I feel China is more worried of an imminent refugee crisis if something were to happen. A conflict between the US and North Korea would end pretty quickly, but China would get the brunt of the fleeing refugees. In all actuality, there are two types of Chinese, those who feel like yeah, its time we should probably do something about North Korea, and another more idealistic type who thinks NK is the last holdout against capitalism and China should do everything to help North Korea against US. This brings up another large and hidden point. Who is to take on the refugees from North Korea? If the South Koreans were to unite and take them all in, then in the eyes of China, the U.S. has won. Yet on the other side of the spectrum, if China takes the refugees, then China has won and the possibility of uniting both Koreas is lost.
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Noemi Cuin
5/15/2017 12:49:36 am
hello martin,
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Luigi
5/17/2017 06:04:22 pm
The real threat with North Korea is not so much about what it can do as a country, but what may come globally because of actions it may instigate. It could become the tipping point in unleashing all of the tensions between the west and the east. What we don't need anywhere on the globe is another refugee crisis, so let's hope something changes that will bring about reasonable resolution to this volatile area.
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Hello Luigi,
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Lesly Garcia
5/20/2017 11:00:14 pm
It is truly saddening to think that people live in constant fear. I think that in an ideal world we wouldn't have to deal with people having to find refugee in a place that is not home. I hope that one day those people can live free in a less controlling government.
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Cammron Keehley
5/23/2017 09:34:06 pm
Hey Martin,
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