essay

Name: Amy Rhee
Assignment: Essay
Instructor: Paul Kang

A 'carrot' is sometimes needed for persuading. To prevail upon others to do according to your will, at times you have to reward them for it. However, when it comes to inducing a country to disarm its nuclear bomb which is one of the most powerful tools to threat the international society, a ‘stick’, along with carrot, also is required. Before providing a fuel as a reward for freezing the nuclear facilities, strict monitoring and stern wariness are necessary.
Armed with this insight, the global community should strictly keep an eye on North Korea to make sure Kim Jung Il keeps the promises before giving any conciliatory presents: sending inspectors to assure there is no secret deception or to guarantee its credibility. It seems very unlikely to succeed in denuclearizing North Korea without those processes as we had already seen in the past. Being a secretive country by kicking out the International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors or refusing participating the Six Party Talk, North Korea had blocked the ways for global community to observe what it is doing. With that advantage, Kim Jung Il kept collecting appeasing gifts and craftily infringing the international agreements that was made as a exchange of the gifts. This characteristic of Kim Jung Il had clearly proved in 2002 when North Korea broke the promise by admitting that it had continued enriching uranium for nuclear weapon even after getting a light-water reactor in return for freezing the nuclear facilities in accordance with the 1994 Geneva Agreement. North Korea only got what it demanded but never kept the promise of giving up the nuclear bomb in status-quo where sufficient monitoring is not happening.
Furthermore to the monitoring, dispassionate pressure from the world including not only U.S. and Japan but also China and South Korea is needed. All nations, even China, a long time friend of North Korea, and South Korea, a generous brother of the North, should not tolerate its fraudulent behaviors anymore. We can see why from the fact that South Korea’s attitude toward North Korea that had never condemned its brother land, kept continuing Mountain Gumgang trip and Gyesung industrial complex project and abstaining from voting on the UN’s North Korea resolution, never helped stopping North Korea from lying, criminal activities, or possessing nuclear bomb. What helped the North Korea officials to come back to the negotiation table was the fact that both China and South Korea shifted their position and, along with other 90 nations, supported the UN resolution. In other word, what made Kim Jung Il talk again was cynical pressure from the world.
Without strict watching and pressure from the international society, a negotiation, even the most recent one, would not be successful no matter how tempting the reward is to Kim Jung Il. Equipped with both carrot and stick with one accord, we should try to assure Kim Jung Il to keep his promise for the sake of the world.