POL343Y5 Lecture Notes - Extortion, Utopia, Bombe
8 Jun 2014
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2006 north korea tested their first nuclear weapon, 2009 tested the second. Roy rejects the irrelational idea, he states they violated the npt because it feels insecure, domestically/internationally, due to cost/lose they do this. The economy of north korea is struggling, doesn"t work. Well over a million have starved to death, eating bark off trees. Korea has this propaganda like its utopia, their government has never been honest about the extent of poverty. North korea feels threatened by japan, korea was occupied by japan till 1945. There has never been a peace deal, south korea has 40 x the economic capacity. Us: referred to north korea as evil, feels insecure from the outside which convinces north. Korea to behave the way that it does. Slide 2: concessions many forms, economic aid, respect, incident in north korea government arrested american journalists, exchange for their release former president bill clinton visited them, saw this as respect.
