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Crazy Kim Jong?

Since I posted this thread in the early hours of the morning, I’ve been paying attention to the news reports and many internet forums. One of the most worrying things I see is how people attempt to claim that people are going around saying Kim Jong II suffers from a mental illness. This is firstly not funny and secondly unfounded and has no place in a debate. Unless you yourself are a trained psychiatrist and have personal experience with the man all these claims do is derail a thread and give pointless conjecture to the debate.

If we’re meant to be here to Deny Ignorance, pushing forward a belief without opinion is not doing that.

Stability or Insanity?

When the report came out, their were several people who did not believe it. They thought that by North Korea testing Nuclear Weapons it would place the country in danger. This itself tends to be unfounded - the same views were present when North Korea tested Inter-continental Ballistic Missiles, when it started the Nuclear program, when it purchased material from Pakistan and other Nation’s. However, nothing has ever happened to them - the sanctions placed upon them by the United Nations does not harm the North Korean Government it only causes to punish the people. Furthermore, the North Korean Government has such control over the media process that they are never seen as the ones conducting a bad act.

The North Korean people do see a trend, where they are the ones in the wrong, where they are evil, where they are the enemy. However, North Korea has not engaged in a military conflict for longer than many of us have been alive. The Korean War, the Cold War and the fight between Communism and Capitalism are long over and the World is nothing like it used to be. Aggressive Nations are now the ones with the Nuclear Weapons and by having them, they gain a level of protection from invasion.

Threat to the West?

The fear mongering on this, is also the main area of concern. Nuclear Weapons have been used twice - both by the United State’s during times of war. China, Russia, Pakistan have not once used them on another nation even while at war. However, there is a common trend that links the three together. When they developed Nuclear Weapons they were viewed as the enemy they were the threat to our way of life. The odd thing is, Russia, Pakistan and China are closer now to the West than they have ever been. There was a time when like now, people called for war - people were calling for death and destruction and a Nuclear Apocalypse.

Why do people call for this? There’s now a historical precedent, which displays once a Nation removes any ability of external hostility towards them they begin to move more towards one another. The problem at the moment is that the West and several Nations are at a deadlock. We’re not trying to engage them in talks because we know out and out we can destroy them. When the balance of power is shifted things change. China changed, Russia changed, Pakistan changed and North Korea will also. The worst thing we could do would be to attack them and risk Nuclear attacks to the Middle East, Japan, South Korea and possibly Europe and the Americas.

Apocalypse Now?

There seems to be, more and more people calling for the End of the World. This to me, is more worrying than North Korea having nuclear weapons. The fact, there are people who are willing to risk a Nuclear War, to risk the lives of millions of people, to risk possible destruction of our complete way of life is the biggest threat at the moment. While people think they’re doing Gods work on Earth, work that results on death it is about time we begin to look at ourselves and not everyone else.

We all know who these people are. We all know that they preach nothing aside from hate and we all know they’re not just of one faith. It’s about time we clean out our own Nations before we begin to try and Police the world and that goes for European Nations, Asian Nations, American Nations and any in between.