Personal Narrative: Serving The North Korean Kim Jong Un

In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak. Communism was acting in Korea just as Hitler, Mussolini, and the Japanese had acted ten, fifteen, and twenty years earlier. I felt certain that if South Korea was allowed to fall, Communist leaders would be emboldened to override nations closer to our own shores. (Truman, 1955)

One of the security challenges facing the United States (US) is the US and North Korea relations. The US policy toward North Korea is diplomatic yet firm. North Korea is our longest standing adversary. Policy toward North Korea is one of the most enduring foreign policy challenges. In this essay I will discuss the security challenge of U.S. and North Korea, the theory of international relation, realism, how it illuminates this challenge and how the instruments of

(while) North Korea’s vice foreign minister, Han Song-ryol, said on Friday that the United States was 'becoming more vicious and aggressive” under Mr. Trump and that “we will go to war if they choose '” (LINE NUMBERS).

In the past three years prior to the approval of my dissertation plan, I have been travelling over 20,000 miles across the U.S. by car to collect primary sources for my research project. In the summer of 2015, I stopped in Atlanta for three days to use the materials in your presidential library to learn your attempts to defuse the crisis in Korea during your administration. Shortly

A flicker of light here and there. Then sound, coming from a distance. An image forms in front of me, and I see a battle scene. All these robots are fighting in a place. Nearby is a scene which says just…Korea. The scene pans to broken shards of glass, which reveal a reflection of a familiar face. This face, so lost in time and memory, was finally found. It was my father, Pierce Nolan, in an armored suit. His mouth grew open as his comforting voice began to speak.

The Secret State of North Korea offered a great look into what basic things North Koreans are lacking. Even within the realm of Communism. Lack of freedoms, lack of food, lack of community, lack of trust, lack of a social society, lack of programs for children, lack of equality, and a lack of information. When Kim Il-Sung created North Korea, the government was based on Marxism and Leninism, called “Juche.” Just as the Soviets, the North Koreans followed suite with massive inequality between the government officials and the common people. The documentary showed its viewers what the government is omnipresent in the everyday lives of its people, so much so that recordings of daily life are illegal, and “random” searches take place commonly.

As I finished reading my dad’s notebook from when he was in World War Two, I fell asleep. The next morning, October 29, 1966, I wake

"North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. He has been very threatening, beyond a normal statement. And as I said, they will be met with fire, fury, and frankly, power, the likes of which this world has never seen before. Thank you.” - Trump.

The third source that I decided to use was an English newspaper. The headline from the article was the first thing that stood out, suggesting that Trump might bomb North Korea next. The article barely covers the event, instead, it covers Eric Trump's comments and the possibility that North Korea can be next. The newspapers instigates that the United States might use military action against North Korea though including Eric Trump's statement hinting that his father is not afraid to make "North Korea...next on the hit list if Kim Jong-Un carries on developing atomic weapons" (Daily Mirror, April 14, 2017). The newspaper just adds more fuel to the existing tension between the United States and North Korea with such a provocative statement.

A naturalized American citizen detained in North Korea on charges of spying has pleaded with the U.S. and South Korean government to facilitate his release.

Two men in army green jackets enter. They look as though they're no older than me. The younger looking one takes off his cap. I know him, Aubrey's older brother, Christian. Aubrey was like my sister. Christian used to have nicknames for us, Aubrey was Brie, I was Thenie, and he was Ristie. The government assigns a letter from the alphabet to every year. For example, 2214, my year, got the letter A, hence my name. These nicknames gave us individuality and unity within us. After Aubrey's tragedy, similar to my father's, Christian is just not the same person. He must be two years older than me, according to his name. The older guy takes a needle out of his pocket and attaches it to the tube coming out of the red box. He lowers it towards Aris's

I am a North Korean defector hiding in Jilin-Sheng of China. After fleeing from North Korea, I once was sent back to home. Yet, now I am living secretly in a small farming village by escaping public peace officers’ observation.

This article deals with the United States and its attempts to deal with the dangerous matters of North Korea. Some of the problems that were brought up in this article were North Korea’s plan to restart a plutonium based nuclear program at Yongbyon, North Korea’s plan to build a new highly enriched uranium (HEU) nuclear program, and the tension that emerged between the United States and South Korea. Even though many problems were occurring, there were some positive things that were happening at the time. The United States began negotiating with North Korea and South Korea about establishing railroad links, demining portions of the demilitarized zone, allowing athletes to compete in the Asian games, and allowing abductees to visit Japan.

Hyeonseo Lee gave a presentation on TED Talk entitled, “My Escape from North Korea”, summarizing about her life in North Korea. She was born and raised there and sing patriotic songs. All the history books told her that North Korea was the best country in the world. As she got older, a famine struck North Korea in the mid-1990’s. Although, she never experienced starvation, she witnessed the events first hand. This was the pushing point for Hyeonseo, who decided to leave North Korea. Due to China and North Korea’s stringent border policies and the Chinese government immigration policy, the life of a North Korean refugee is challenging and extremely risky. They risk being deported back to the very country that they escaped from. There are reports and stories about the violation of human rights and labor camps in North Korea. She would live in China for ten years before moving to South Korea. Hyeonseo was forced to help her family escape from North Korea. The regime caught Hyeonseo for sending money to her family. Lee’s family to be relocated by the order of the North Korean government. She needed to smuggle them through China to a South Korean embassy in Laos. Unfortunately, Hyeonseo Lee’s story won’t be the last we hear about the abysmal conditions in North Korea. There are, potentially millions more, stories detailing the humanitarian disaster in the country and we must take steps to prepare for the eventual collapse of the country.

The negotiations talking on the nuclear threaten and the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula has recently shaped the agenda of North Korean system of international relations, thus affecting the patterns of foreign policy of the DPRK. This issue has gained such a priority to lead to the establishment of the 6PT experiment, thus proving to stand at the core of the debate on the stability and safety debate in the Northeast Asia region.