The Korean Humanitarian Crisis and the Karabakh Conflict

North Korea has become infamous for its many atrocities to humanity. This country is well known for its fear-inducing communist political structure which has oppressed the entirety of its people for many years and still today under the rule of the Kim family. Food shortages, movement restrictions, and strict bans on media are some of the major ongoing issues today. Those who are found to be in violation of these bans and restrictions face unfair trial and sentencing, prison camps, and sometimes public execution. North Korean dictators are responsible for these human rights violations and have made little effort to cooperate with the United Nations and other non-government organizations to solve these issues.

North Korea beings a country engulfed by hunger and poverty can not risk showing their citizens the lifestyles of flourishing countries. This alone can start a subvert of the government, as to why they will not permit it to happen. They make it seems like certain pleasures do not exist. In a way it makes it seem like they are stronger than their adversaries. Luxuries in the country are everyday things to people in more progressed countries like the United States. The citizens do not know of this through media control thus thinking they are living a great life and better than average living standard. Despite this not all are contained and many escape which signifies the insubordinates shown in 1984 who do everything to turn on their government. Whether it be doing the bare minimum such as eating or loving an object, or running away from the

The starvations of the people are caused by the government doing nothing to help its people. About millions of people die every year due to starvation under Kim-Jong Un’s ruling. Korea’s education programs, films, news, and propaganda are controlled by the government, so the people only see and hear what the leader wants to them to know. The citizens of North Korea have little or no say about who is elected to rule, just like the dystopian novels, Legend and Surviving Antarctica. The reason Kim-Jong Un became leader of North Korea was because of his father’s death. The country and the novels are meant to show the readers how powerful and corrupted the government is becoming. The authors are trying to warn the readers that the government is becoming more and more powerful, and if we don’t figure out a way to deal with it now, then we will have a future just like the dystopian

The tensions between the US and DPRK have reached a point that the only viable outcomes are either War or Regime change in the DPRK. The policy adopted by the DPRK of nuclear blackmail and bombastic military threats leave little option for anything more. Under Kim Jong-un the DPRK has become emboldened. The DPRK has leveraged its ability to survive sanctions at the expense of its citizen to only in turn use it as a catalyst to secure international aid. There is very little options given a state that behaves as recklessly as the DPRK given its track record throughout

During Kim Jong IL'S reign, the government in North Korea was very unorganized and poor. “In 1994, the year Kim inherited North Korea's reins from his late father, the country was in the midst of a severe agricultural decline. The newly minted despot transformed it into a famine that would claim as many as three million lives. Food shortages have plagued the country ever since” (Weissmann). Since the death of Kim Jong IL, Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, agreed to “stop” the nuclear tests and freeze the nuclear program in return would be food aid from the United States on February 29, 2012. This agreement included uranium enrichment and long range missile tests ("North Korea | Countries | NTI"). In April 2012, North Korea and the United States got into an argument over the launch of a rocket. North Korea then decided that their past agreement of freezing the nuclear program was now ineffective and conducted a nuclear test anyway in February 2013. On February 6 Pyongyang announced that all of its nuclear facilities would be restarted at Yongbyon. The United States knows this is not just North Korea bluffing. Satellite imagery has confirmed that the 5MW graphite-moderated reactor and the uranium enrichment plant has been put into work ("North Korea | Countries | NTI"). Not just the United States, but Japan, China, and everyone around North Korea must be on high alert. “ Reports indicate that the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea has about 12 facilities where raw chemicals, precursors and agents are produced and stored. As well as 6 major storage depots for chemical weapons” ("North Korea | Countries | NTI"). It has come to light that North Korea never officially stopped the nuclear program (Mark Toner). Since then, North Korea has been performing multiple nuclear

ABC News stated, “North Korea: Lives of luxury for elite as Kim Jong-un rolls out nationwide reform to combat widespread poverty.” The strict set of rules North Korea lives by is setting the nation up for failure. Their leader is a temperamental, immature, and power hunger man that will lead that nation to defeat. Kim Jong-un is testing with nuclear weapons and is threatening us and many of our allies. Jong-un is spending the money that can be used to help the nation thrive to help him gain personally. There is said to still be an estimated 120,000 prisoners still in labor camps. At these labor camps, torture and executions are common.

The impact North Korea poses on the global community outweighs its geographical size. Having only a landmass about the size of Mississippi, North Korea houses a population of 23 million people. This small communist county is one of the most isolated and controlled places in the world. Formed after World War II and having only two leaders during its time of existence, this country has displayed defiant acts against the global community throughout its history. Currently under heavy sanctions by the U.N., North Korea illustrates a blatant disregard to international law through trade of prohibited goods. Its obsession with nuclear weapons in recent years, its continuous disregard to human life and its affiliation to terrorism creates fear

And North Korea’s hunger problem continues to this day: Pyongyang has relied upon “emergency” international humanitarian relief for over a decade and a half. Earlier this year the DPRK lodged an urgent appeal to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) for another round of food aid. North Korea is thus the world’s first and only industrialized economy to lose the capacity to feed itself.’’

The United States supported South Korea and the Soviet Union Supported North Korea. “These two superpower nations raised North and South Korea in their own image.” There is particularly true when the parent countries share their economic views with the newly formed country. Capitalism was held in South Korea because they are supported by the United States who is a capitalist economy. This leads them to self-sustain their economy where the business booms which leads to better opportunities for most of the economy. On the other hand, in North Koreas, they are communist society due to the influence of China and the Soviet Union. This means everyone in the country is equal. This means depending on governments policies the people well survive. The fall of Soviet Union directly affected the North Koreans; they had to suffer “Up until the 1980’s they received large cash infusions from Chine and the Soviet Union. But the Soviet Union fell apart in the 80s and became separate capitalist countries, of which Russia is largest. Without the Soviet contributions, North Korea entered a ling period of famine that lasted through the 90s. The food was hard to come by and some estimate that millions of people starved to

The situation for the people of North Korea is growing more desperate every day due to the conditions the government has put on it’s people. From famine to imprisonment and concentration camps there is unmistakeable misery. North Korea needs to have intervention from other countries to assist their people with human rights reform. Also South Korea has challenged North Korea to prove it does not violate human rights of its citizens. “For starters, there's a resurgent famine driven by gross government mismanagement that threatens millions of lives, hundreds of thousands of political prisoners languish in concentration camps, and an estimated half-million refugees remain in hiding from forced repatriation that often results in torture and execution” (Hong). In this quote Hong explains that these people needed help because they feel threatened, so they are scared for what will happen next. Hong’s opinion that, North Korea

He knows a starving populace is a weak one, and uses this to his advantage. Usually when 41% of a nation’s population is undernourished[2], the masses rebel against their leaders in search of a better system, but this is not the case with North Korea. The authoritarian government has, through decades of propaganda, convinced the public that starvation is the least of their worries, which allows the regime to focus on improving their military strength rather than improving the livelihood of their citizens. For an authoritarian dictator, military might is everything, and the people’s happiness is nothing, no matter what their propaganda posters might tell

Not only is this a devastating event in itself with thousands affected, it also brings the mistreatment to light. Over the past few years, North Korea has poured millions into research for nuclear weaponry. This drive for power has left his people neglected with a terrible Quality of Life. Not only do they suffer from day-to-day issues such as starvation and censorship, but the floods have meant that foreign aid is needed more than ever.

Famine is the one of the biggest problems in the world. More than 800 million people are suffering from hunger. The people of North Korea suffer from hunger on the level of the notorious Somalia, Sudan, and Ethiopia famines. They just suffer in silence behind the world media. There are several facts about the North Korea famine. One of the main factors for the North Korea famine is political problems: The North Korean government ignores s people’s everyday lives and only does things for preparing war. Moreover, the North Korean government, North Korea dose not like allow relief agencies to personally deliver the grain

Back in Washington, President Clinton’s administration concluded that North Korea was reviving their nuclear missile program and demanded access to the suspected facilities being built. Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, granted access to multiple locations to U.S. officials for inspection of facilities in exchange for financial aid and food (Hathaway & Tama 724). North Korea’s negotiation for aid from the U.S. does not come as a surprise for the simple fact that citizens living under the supreme leadership of Kim Jong-un live in absolute poverty. Although the state-run government experiences hardship by trying to provide an adequate supply of food for citizens; the government spends a huge sum of money to maintain a large military force.

In 1953, an armistice was signed between North Korea and South Korea. Unfortunately, after the countries involved in the war started to settle back down, a number of factors caused the North Korean economy to take a turn for the worst. Among those many factors are the fall of the Soviet Union and the intense floods, but ultimately it was the culmination of faulty actions taken by a corrupt government that took the economy down. Instead of the focusing on the nutrition of its people, the North Korean government spent more time “strengthening” its military. Ironically, that military is, and was, basically starving as well. The topic of hunger and poverty in countries like North Korea matter because the people who have the most economic potential are being harmed the most. All