North Korea is one of the most militarized nations in the world. In the news, all anyone ever hears about is new developments in missile technology in DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea). However, they were not always this way, and even greater yet, it seems they were victimized in the last decade by the American Empire.
Furthermore, North Korea lost over 20% of its population in the previous century. This trauma seems to still be a wound within the North Korean cultural unconscious. What America did was unforgivable and would drive any nation into war hawk.
War Crimes
“In the early 1950s, during the Korean War, the US dropped more bombs on North Korea than it had dropped in the entire Pacific theater during World War II. This carpet bombing, which included 32,000 tons of napalm, often deliberately targeted civilian as well as military targets, devastating the country far beyond what was necessary to fight the war. Whole cities were destroyed, with many thousands of innocent civilians killed and many more left homeless and hungry,” according to Vox.
Furthermore, America blew Korea sky high in the 1950s, but is confused why North Korea wants to flex its military might. Put simply, what happens to a child that has been beaten? That child will try to make sure it is never harmed again. Additionally, North Korea was abused with bombs by a technologically superior adversary. However, America wants to pretend that the Korean war didn’t happen. The axe forgets but the tree remembers.
Future relations
Finally, North Korea, or as the they call themselves The democratic peoples republic of Korea, seem to have an alright relationship with America. All through out the Trump campaign, Donald Trump was seen with Kim Jong Un. Moreover, It seems that DPRK and America are trying to build an amicable relationship.
Though, the DPRK continues to build a greater and stronger army. On some level the DPRK knows one thing. It knows that America doesn’t have friends. America only has strategic allies, and DPRK is right next to China.
Written by Kenneth Mazerat
Sources
ALjazeera: North Korea ends all economic cooperation with South as ties hit new low by
Vox: Americans have forgotten what we did to North Korea by Max Fisher
Asiasociety: Massacre at Nogun-ri by Elisa Joy Holland
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