Topic: Security Cooperation in East Asia
Country: North Korea
Delegate Name: Victoria Minka
School: Kalamazoo Central High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All North Korea position papers GLIMUN 2017 committees
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has always stated that our interest in developing a nuclear weapons program is purely for self-defense and is provoked by the bulldog like quality of the United States. Their impact on the rest of the world has resulted in more casualties than people they have helped, protecting ourselves from this power of white colonization and missionary of Western ideas is logical. Not only is the United States’ role in the Korean peninsula as well as most of East Asia unwarranted and unnecessary, it is an abuse of their power as a member of the Security Council. In the past, we have stated that the unjust dominance of the United Nation’s Security Council flies directly in the face of the democratic idea that was set forth in the creation of this great United Nations. Our focus as the General Assembly should be more on whether the Security Council is lawful instead of encroaching on the sovereignty of nation’s like the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The Security Council’s singular power to make laws allows them to keep control of other nations and oppress countries trying to gain more sway and global presence out of fear for their standing. As of late, the United States’ President Trump has been disrespecting our great leader, Kim Jong-un and threatening the safety of our citizens. His actions and statements have been violent and set his country on a path of destruction as he has threatened the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. In the past, our nation’s Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho has addressed President Trump’s disgusting statements, “Due to his lacking basic common knowledge and proper sentiment, he tried to insult the supreme dignity of my country by referring it to a rocket. By doing so, however, he committed an irreversible mistake of making our rockets' visit to the entire US mainland inevitable all the more,” When my country does fully realize our nuclear technology and create a more concrete stock of nuclear weaponry, the US will once again have to judge whether this approach is appropriate for an equal nuclear power. In the past, the great Democratic People’s Republic of Korea worked with the International Atomic Energy Agency to create more transparency about the nature of our nuclear power plants and weapons programs. However, we quickly realized that much like other agencies in the United Nations, the IAEA is another tool of the overpowered Security Council, which prompted us to refuse their entry into our Pyongyang nuclear sites in 2009. Since 2009, we have conducted several successful nuclear tests and will continue to develop a hydrogen bomb that can reach the United States homeland. Only after this is accomplished will we be truly respected by the global community and receive the treatment our nation has always deserved. In regards to our great nation’s relationship with other foreign powers, we recommend that sanctions on exports and limits on imports to and from our great nations should be immediately removed. After our nuclear test in 2006, the United Nations was weakened when it placed increasing sanctions on our great nation because it became even more of a machine used to promote Western ideals instead of respecting the sovereignty of each individual nation. The placement of these sanctions was also a signal to my great nation that the international community was more willing refuse fair treatment to us than discuss the larger issue at hand. Despite these attempts to harm the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s economy and strength, we continue to thrive and prevail. The best way that we can solve the problems arising in East Asia is to arrange a discourse between the powers of Eastern Asia, similar to the Six-Party Talks, except without the presence of the United States. Instead of these talks emphasizing the need for nuclear non-proliferation, they should focus on how to negotiate peace and trade in our region while still respecting the sovereignty of each nation. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has always been open to speaking with our brethren in the Republic of Korea, as Mr. Pak Kil Yon stated in his address to the General Assembly in 2010, “South Korea… should immediately embark on north-south dialogue to find solutions to all outstanding issues as recommended by the Presidential Statement of the UN Security Council.” Not only would the Democratic Republic of Korea be willing to speak with the Republic of Korea, but our great trade partner, China, whose economy is closely tied to our own. These talks could benefit China because they could also discuss islands that are disputed with Japan, which maintains the focus of peace in this discussion. In recent months, President Trump has painted the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as a villain in his story. Yet, we are more willing to negotiate peace and equality with our neighbors than his own power-hungry nation is to even speak with the countries on its own borders.
