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North Korea
Concerns and Focuses:
Kim Jong Il
Juche Philosophy
Censorship and Information Control
Government Structure and Elitism
Developing Nuclear Program
History
Levels of Concern
Individual: Kim Jong Il and his successor
State: Juche policy, Militarism, Succession and
Government, and Censorship
Systemic: Developing Nuclear Program
Kim Jong Il
Kim Jong Un
Juche
Image of the electric
power grid by night in
North and South Korea.
As you can see,
Pyongyang is the only
dot lit in North Korea,
as the rest of the
country’s grid is shut off
by night to conserve
limited supplies of
energy.
“Since 1995, the U.S. has provided over $1 billion
in foreign assistance to the
Democratic People’s Republic of North Korea
(DPRK, also known as North Korea),
about 60% of which has taken the form of food aid,
and about 40% in the form of
energy assistance channeled through the Korean
Peninsula Energy Development
Organization (KEDO).” – 2002 CRS Report
Censorship and Information
Control, Issue 1
No internet except for Kim Jong Il and some elites
beneath him
Most of the population has never watched a
television or heard a radio that hadn’t been
modified to receive only North Korean broadcasts
The only source of information is the Korean
Central News Agency, which dedicates a majority
of its time to pro-leader propaganda and
reassuring everyone the North Korea is more
prosperous than South Korea.
Militarism and Government
The Nuclear Program, Issue 2
1994 Agreed Framework
I. Both sides will cooperate to replace the DPRK’s graphitemoderated reactors and related facilities with light-water reactor
(LWR) power plants.
II. The two sides will move toward full normalization of political
and economic relations.
III. Both sides will work together for peace and security on a
nuclear-free Korean peninsula.
IV. Both sides will work together to strengthen the international
nuclear non proliferation regime.
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From AGREED FRAMEWORK BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
AND THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA
Geneva, October 21, 1994
Six Party Talks
Recommended Policy, and why
You should care
Issues
Censorship:
Nuclear Program
First, North Korea is a threat worth
addressing. The recommendation of
information warfare has precedence and
the potential to be effective in
protecting our interests (Realist)
A basic human right, the freedom of
speech and expression, is being
suppressed in this country. What kind
of democratic hegemon wouldn’t want
to peacefully open the peoples’
eyes?(Liberal)
The sharing of information and ideas is
the only way to get grassroots change
up and running. Information warfare is
constructivist warfare.
It is in our best interest to ensure that a
totalitarian regime bent on military
development that preaches a constant rhetoric
of “down with the corrupt West” not have
nuclear weapons.(Realist)
Nuclear weapons in North Korea represent a
choke point to diplomatic solutions and the
expansion of capitalism. Assuming no drastic
political change is eminent, the first step to
successfully force feeding our democratic
ideals is the removal of the Nuclear card from
the North Korean table. (Liberal)
I don’t like the idea of nukes in North Korea
and you shouldn’t too (Constructivist, joke).
For our two nations to successfully exchange
ideas, we need Korean plutonium out of the
picture.