United Kingdom - North korean threat: what sanctions to adopt?
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COMITY : Security Council
SUBJECT : North korean threat : what sanctions to adopt ?
COUNTRY : United Kingdom
Honorable chair, dear delegates,
We can all agree today that North Korea is a totalitarian regime. In fact, it meets each of its criteria : not only does the current governor – or, more precisely, dictator - Kim Jong Un cultivate a personality cult around his persona, but so have been his father and grand father since the creation of the country after World War II. To do so, he uses propaganda, monopolizing the medias and the art for them to be patriotic only. The right to vote has been abolished, with a single political party and a president for life. Opponents of the party are sent to concentration camps, or executed in public. The inhabitants are oppressed by the omnipresent military force, with more than 1.5 million soldiers for less than 22 million people. They don’t have any heating in winter, power cuts are part of the routine there and the north koreans have known a fifteen years famine with the last dictator. Kim Jong Un arrived in 2011, claiming he would change everything his father had done by helping the people, but ended up being just the same.
The European Union cutted ties with North Korea because of the numerous violations of human rights its governement has comitted. The country’s diplomatic relations with the UK began the 12th of December 2000 with the establishment of diplomatic missions in London and Pyongyang. However, On the 5th of April 2013, the North Korean government advised the British Embassy that the safety of their missions could not be assured anymore, in response to the UN Security Council Resolution 2094, condamning the perpetution of their nuclear tests.
Those nuclear tests have been undeniable threats for neighboring countries, such as South Korea and Japan. One if the missiles landed on the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of Japan, on the 29th of May last year, reviving the tensions between the two countries. But the most worrying test was that of a thermonuclear weapon on the 3rd of September. It created an earthquake of 6.3 magnitude, not far from North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site. It has a power of more than 250 kiloton, 16 times more than Hiroshima. Furthermore, North Korea seems determinated to keep executing those nuclear tests, even after the sanctions defined by the UN. The country also claims that the rockets could strike anywhere on the US mainland.
This is understandable, given that the sanctions are only financial penalties and prohibitions. What the Security Council should really decide is the use of military forces. That is the only mean Kim Jong Un will comprehend. If North Korea were to strike the US or allies like Japan, even not on purpose, the UK wouldn’t hesitate to join them in a war against North Korea. If all Kim Jong Un has been doing is threathen us with his nuclear weapons, then threathen him back is the only solution to open his eyes on the reckless and dangerous nature of his actions.
SUBJECT : North korean threat : what sanctions to adopt ?
COUNTRY : United Kingdom
Honorable chair, dear delegates,
We can all agree today that North Korea is a totalitarian regime. In fact, it meets each of its criteria : not only does the current governor – or, more precisely, dictator - Kim Jong Un cultivate a personality cult around his persona, but so have been his father and grand father since the creation of the country after World War II. To do so, he uses propaganda, monopolizing the medias and the art for them to be patriotic only. The right to vote has been abolished, with a single political party and a president for life. Opponents of the party are sent to concentration camps, or executed in public. The inhabitants are oppressed by the omnipresent military force, with more than 1.5 million soldiers for less than 22 million people. They don’t have any heating in winter, power cuts are part of the routine there and the north koreans have known a fifteen years famine with the last dictator. Kim Jong Un arrived in 2011, claiming he would change everything his father had done by helping the people, but ended up being just the same.
The European Union cutted ties with North Korea because of the numerous violations of human rights its governement has comitted. The country’s diplomatic relations with the UK began the 12th of December 2000 with the establishment of diplomatic missions in London and Pyongyang. However, On the 5th of April 2013, the North Korean government advised the British Embassy that the safety of their missions could not be assured anymore, in response to the UN Security Council Resolution 2094, condamning the perpetution of their nuclear tests.
Those nuclear tests have been undeniable threats for neighboring countries, such as South Korea and Japan. One if the missiles landed on the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of Japan, on the 29th of May last year, reviving the tensions between the two countries. But the most worrying test was that of a thermonuclear weapon on the 3rd of September. It created an earthquake of 6.3 magnitude, not far from North Korea's Punggye-ri nuclear test site. It has a power of more than 250 kiloton, 16 times more than Hiroshima. Furthermore, North Korea seems determinated to keep executing those nuclear tests, even after the sanctions defined by the UN. The country also claims that the rockets could strike anywhere on the US mainland.
This is understandable, given that the sanctions are only financial penalties and prohibitions. What the Security Council should really decide is the use of military forces. That is the only mean Kim Jong Un will comprehend. If North Korea were to strike the US or allies like Japan, even not on purpose, the UK wouldn’t hesitate to join them in a war against North Korea. If all Kim Jong Un has been doing is threathen us with his nuclear weapons, then threathen him back is the only solution to open his eyes on the reckless and dangerous nature of his actions.
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