How Did Joseph Stalin Get Nuclear Power In North Korea
Major Essay Part Two: The Argument The year is 1948, Joseph Stalin has just appointed the leader of North Korea as Kim Il-Sung, and since that time the same family has been in power. Kim Il-Sung is the man who is responsible for North Korea’s drive to become a nuclear power to this day. It was his demand for nuclear weapons that pushed the regime in its search. Flash-forward, it’s 1994, North Korea under the leadership of Kim Jong Il, Il-Sung’s son, announces it’s intentions to retract from the “Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT),” further confirming suspicions that North Korea had resumed its nuclear program (Arms Control Association, 2017) In May of 1996, president Bill Clinton places sanctions on North Korea not allowing exports or imports to the parts of the country deemed “missile-related.” (Arms Control Association, 2017). The effect of this was to cut off resources to an already starving country, but more importantly the citizens of this
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country were unfairly punished through no fault of their own. The United States and North Korean power struggle is just as notable for the reliance on nuclear weaponry. Violations of treaty after treaty proved no progress, and stubbornness was at an all-time high. In 2003, North Korea agreed to sit down and speak with several countries including China, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and the United States with the goal of disassembling the Nuclear Programs in North Korea. These “chats” were known as the “Six- Party Talks” comprised of six rounds of talks, or meetings, which resulted in minimal progress toward the goal of dismantling nuclear weaponry in North Korea (Liang, 2017). Since the sixth round of talks in 2007-2008, each of the member countries requested another “talk,” but no continuation has happened, “as recently as February 2017.” (Liang, 2017) North Korea has attempted 105 missile launches, successfully launching 82 of the 105 times (Nudleman & Brown, 2017).
That is 82 direct violations of treaties signed by the leader in charge of the regime, 105 if you count the failed attempts. The most recent missile test from North Korea came in August of 2017, when the regime launched a missile over Japan soaring 1,700 miles in nine minutes and straight into the ocean. This launch was a direct bi-product of North Korea’s early stages of nuclear weapons. With the United States President Donald Trump became the first sitting US President to make a comment stating that the United States will bring “fire and fury on North Korea if it endangered the United States” (Sang-Hun & Sanger, 2017). Interestingly, where is the action that follows the threat given by President Trump? After endangering the people of Japan is it not seen as a real threat that North Korea is planning to reach the US with nuclear weapons. The actions taken by North Korea need to have
consequences.
country were unfairly punished through no fault of their own. The United States and North Korean power struggle is just as notable for the reliance on nuclear weaponry. Violations of treaty after treaty proved no progress, and stubbornness was at an all-time high. In 2003, North Korea agreed to sit down and speak with several countries including China, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and the United States with the goal of disassembling the Nuclear Programs in North Korea. These “chats” were known as the “Six- Party Talks” comprised of six rounds of talks, or meetings, which resulted in minimal progress toward the goal of dismantling nuclear weaponry in North Korea (Liang, 2017). Since the sixth round of talks in 2007-2008, each of the member countries requested another “talk,” but no continuation has happened, “as recently as February 2017.” (Liang, 2017) North Korea has attempted 105 missile launches, successfully launching 82 of the 105 times (Nudleman & Brown, 2017).
That is 82 direct violations of treaties signed by the leader in charge of the regime, 105 if you count the failed attempts. The most recent missile test from North Korea came in August of 2017, when the regime launched a missile over Japan soaring 1,700 miles in nine minutes and straight into the ocean. This launch was a direct bi-product of North Korea’s early stages of nuclear weapons. With the United States President Donald Trump became the first sitting US President to make a comment stating that the United States will bring “fire and fury on North Korea if it endangered the United States” (Sang-Hun & Sanger, 2017). Interestingly, where is the action that follows the threat given by President Trump? After endangering the people of Japan is it not seen as a real threat that North Korea is planning to reach the US with nuclear weapons. The actions taken by North Korea need to have
consequences.