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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
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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 - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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North KoreaConcerns and Focuses:
Kim Jong IlJuche PhilosophyCensorship and Information ControlGovernment Structure and ElitismDeveloping Nuclear Program
History
Levels of ConcernIndividual: 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 himMost of the population has never watched a television or heard a radio that hadn’t been modified to receive only North Korean broadcastsThe 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 FrameworkI. Both sides will cooperate to replace the DPRK’s graphite-moderated 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.
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
IssuesCensorship: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.
Nuclear ProgramIt 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.
