Essay for Radio Interview: North Korea Solution
Here is the link for this interview. Special thanks to Paul for having me on his show.
Our Goal and Solution:
We are seeking a long-term and sustainable peace with North Korea. We can’t be afraid of them just because they have nuclear weapons, and we should make that point clear. But we should offer them our markets to compete in.
The Situation:
There are supposedly two more missiles in the works one from each coast with a 4000 mile range. Seattle is 4,700 miles away, which makes it not far-fetched to consider North Korea a nuclear threat.
Let’s look at the blast that they set off last week. Some called it a fizzle, but the blast itself was equivalent to about 4 kilotons.
Is a ten kiloton blast far-fetched at this point for North Korea? Not at all. They’re close to achieving such a bomb. Basically, we’re talking about fine-tuning a nuclear chain-reaction that‘s already some-what worked, and hypothetically, if a 10-kiloton blast hits seattle, it would kill 80,000 people and debilitate another 42,000 people within 48 hours.
What Obama is doing:
The Obama administration wants to stand behind the U.N. with their idea of sanctions.
The idea of sanctioning has been tried many times before, with the most convincing failure coming in the Carter era where being soft with sanctions led to 52 hostages held for 444 days. Reagan tried sanctions too, and it wasn’t all that successful for Reagan either. How many times have we or another country done sanctions and wound up seeing their citizens kidnapped, held hostage, or have had acts of piracy against them?
People are not exactly going to be happy they are already starving, and we further starve them.
Reagan’s Success:
What DID work for Reagan was to trade capitalism for peace; let them use our markets. He did it with China, and they had TONS of nukes.
Consider North Korea’s Situation:
The premise of all this is to offer them a deal to make their people better, it would secure that Kim Jong Il his place in history. After all, this is a man who once seeked the top position in his country, and in doing so, he is probably looking to build a legacy and gain respect.
Kim currently can hardly afford to feed his own people, and he needs to generate morale in his own country somehow. That seems to be the reason he went after the bomb in the first place, doesn’t it?
Helping a Socialist leader build his legacy by opening up our markets to his country worked with China. Why not do this with North Korea and make an ally out of them through capitalism? As of right now, the people in China are experts in generating money, and their people can travel all over the place and take vacations on their free time.
Where’s the money?
Much like China before, there are people with a lot of money who live all over the world, and they can already speak, read, and write Korean. These people would be happy to see this happen so that they can be a part of it.
We should be following this winning strategy.
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This is the essay that I’ve written to explain what I had stated in the interview that I did today (June 3rd, 2009) on Paul A. Ibbetson’s “Conscience of Kansas” radio program. Paul said that this interview will be posted on his website on or around June 10th.
Tags: capitalism, il, jong, kim, Nations, nuclear, Obama, sanctions, United, weapons
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