Fine, we all agree on that North Korea's dictatorial regime should be ended; its dictatorship deprives individuals' freedom, its government is malfunctioning, extremely corrupt and is manipulative of its people's minds. The list of faults of the North Korean regime is simply endless and we as world citizens must do something!
So why begin with dismantling nuclear weapon? Why not start with non-political issues where North Korea is not as sensitive about as its security issue? Imagine five kids - named South Korea, United States, Japan, Russia, and China - ganging up on cornering one kid. The last thing for him to give up would be his the right to protect herself from others. Asking North Korea to denuclearize is like asking to stop protecting himself. Why would ANYONE do that?
Shouldn't we ponder upon "how to ensure North Korea that she will be accepted by the rest of world community?" not "how to make him feel humiliated?"
The visit of NY Philharmonic Orchestra to North Korea seems to have become nothing but a miracle. Shouldn't the U.S. government have taken more advantage of the event and pushed it further to that direction? Wouldn't it have been truly awesome if the U.S. in return invited the North Korean musicians to perform at Carnegie Hall? I would have cried if that happened. I didn't cry when I watched the recording of the broadcast of the NY philharmonic's concert in N. Korea. I didn't like the way they westernized our Minyo, 아리랑.
Let alone the debate whether North Korea should abandon its nuclear weapon. The U.S. and Russia themselves own more weapons than the rest of the world's combined. The persuasion of that matter perhaps should come at the last step of peace negotiation (in a different manner, too). A common sense.
Hillary Clinton's calling North Korea "small children" is the least helpful comment that she could have made. and for that, I can't help nodding to North Korea's response, which called her a "primary school girl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping."
