The Policy for North Korea

North Korea is one of the countries which become the center of the public and media interest in the world these days. Especially, nuclear weapons are currently the biggest issue. So, when the administrations of U.S and South Korea were changed in 2008 and 2009, many people had a concern about the way how they deal with North Korea. There had been a gap between South Korea and U.S in last roughly ten years. South Korea had insisted the so-called Sunshine policy for last two administrations because the Presidents was in a liberal side, whereas Bush administration was conservatism which had opposed this policy. This policy is still controversial.

Last week, ASEAN Regional Forum(ARF) was hold in Phuket, Thailand. There was an event which reflects the current relationship between North Korea and U.S. They fell into rancorous exchange. Hillary Rodham Clinton called North Korean leader "unruly children", then North Korean government jeered her back as a "schoolgirl" and a "pensioner" two days later.

I would support the current policy of U.S against North Korea. In the meeting the foreign ministers of China, Russia, Japan and South Korea, Mrs. Clinton said that the United States would not offer new incentives to North Korean to return to negotiations. She said all of the other nations that had engaged in talks with North Korean to return to negotiations. She said all of other nations that had engaged in talks with North Korea in the past five years were united in demanding that North Korea undertake a "complete and irreversible denuclearization" before receiving any economic or politic incentives from them. (Landler, Mark. "Clinton Speaks of Shielding Mideast From Iran." New York Times 23 July, 2009) As Clinton said, they used to try to get incentives from what they have already gotten incenctives. Also, North Korea has done with this way which they made a big trouble first, and wanted to get new incentives. Since we have accepted those, they have repeated it over and over. This is a kind of a vicious circle. It is time ti quit the circle although it feels little late.

I am an South Korean and I do not hate ordinary North Korean. However, I hate those who govern the people. They took advantage of the money which came from South Korea to aid poor North Korean. Then, they made nuclear weapons with this money. We must take stern legal action against those who use the word "peace" with threating action.