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North Korea, A Living Dinosaur In The New World

October 9, 2006 ⋅  E-Mail Article ⋅  Print Article ⋅ Post a comment

North Korea now has the ability to nuke any country within their 25% range of the world. We wanted globalization and now we have it. You can’t just take the cheap labor and not expect the garbage that comes along with it. We want to sell our products to the world but we don’t want the world to actually catch up with the superpowers, you can’t have it both ways and North Korea is a prime example of how and why globalization will never catch on correctly without being a danger to the world. North Korea wants to be a major player in the world economy but they do not understand that there is not enough pie to go around. What do they do in retaliation? They resort to isolation and threaten the world with nuclear destruction. Today it is North Korea, tomorrow it will be some other small rogue country trying to prop itself up with the big boys. Nuclear proliferation is a direct result of national greed regardless of which country you refer to. Countries want power and power comes through economic gain and it is for this reason North Korea is threatening to have the ability to wipe out millions of souls within striking distance of their missiles, and that distance is greater than you think.

As America outsources and enables countries to grow at a rapid rate not normally experienced we will see this problem more and more. Countries will want more power to help with their cheap labor factories; they will always be underpowered so they will turn to the alternative just like India is seeking to do and Iran as well. They want to conquer the economic world so quickly they are trying to enter into the world of nuclear power. Once you dabble in nuclear power you usually want to dabble in nuclear weapons. Once a country has reached its zenith it will be a target for the next predatory small or emerging country, as this country then steals the work and labor of a country the country will grow hostile towards th predatory country and this will then cause a conflict similar to North Korea. And we will play this out over and over for the next few hundred years. We need to slow down the rapid growth rate of the world and its economy and deal with our issues right now. Culture shock causes irrational behavior and the world cannot deal with more than 1 or 2 megalomaniacs at a time, let alone nuclear armed megalomaniacs.

Our greed to exploit the next new market has made us oblivious to the culture shock we create throughout the world. It is not that North Korea cannot handle nuclear technology; it is that North Korea cannot handle the modernization of the world and its global economy and the context nuclear responsibility fits into in the global order. North Korea is a victim of culture shock and all they know how to do in retaliation is resort to animal instincts, which is to threaten and fight when it feels cornered.

North Korea is a problem but they are just the first in what will soon be a long line. You are kidding yourself if you do not think Valenzuela and Cuba will not follow suit, then throw in some radical Islamic countries in the Middle east and you see the recipe for disaster.

We must deal with the reasons we have radicalism, and isolation, in the world. Is our greed causing us to over expand in a world not yet ready for instantaneous globalization? Should we consider the ramifications of our own actions and how the world as a whole has failed Iran, North Korea, and human kind? Do we work to live or do we now live to work? Is our passion to be the largest corporation, company, or industry taking into consideration the effects on indigenous people? Is North Korea really just a dinosaur being dragged into a new world unequipped to deal with the new worlds realities?

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