Talk:Liberty in North Korea
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LiNK looks just as useful as any other Liberal garbage. What could they possibly do to help the situation in North Korea. If anything, they should focus their energies on calling out for the end of the American Military from the Korean peninsula. We do not need foreigners in the peninsula, let alone the power that partitioned us from the first place. User:Gyopo 13:57, March 20, 2006
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LiNK came into being because of seeming apathy by the South Korean government and people for gross human rights violations committed by the North. Drawing attention to the issue and forcing the South to face them is an important first step.
Your comments with regards to the American military are irrelavent. The complete withdrawal of the United States from the Korean penninsula isn't going to magically make these human rights abuses disappear. Koreantoast 23:59, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
You say drawing attention to the issue will force the hand of the South Korean government? How would a group such as LiNK formed primarily of Korean-Americans force or even convince a sovereign nation? Even the indigenous groups in South Korea have not been successful. The relevance is in that the withdrawal of the American military will be the first step in reconciliation with the North. The Americans have an interest in a divided Korea. The North Koreans have stated already that there would be no deals with an armed American force on the peninsula. It isn't South Korea that is preventing a solution, it is the American presence. No solution will make these human rights abuses "magically" disappear, but having the Americans withdraw from the peninsula sure would "help out". No nation deserves to be under the thumb of another nation's. Reunification is not even in sight, and yet you suggest an organization composed with a majority of foreign nationals would do anything to stop these human rights abuses?-Gyopo User:Gyopo 18:46, September 24, 2006
[edit] LiNK: Good or bad?
I respect LINK's primarily humanitarian mission. For god's sake, people are dying and suffering everyday in North Korea and LINK's mission to stop the suffering is not just "liberal garbage."
However, I have encountered LINK in college (as I am a college student) and I must say even though I respect the mission, what LINK is really accomplishing is almost nothing. Its like throwing a pebble into the ocean - LINK is not making much of a ripple in politics at all.
The other problem is LINK's mission to publicize North Korean human rights abuses doesn't help the South Korean government's policy of economic cooperation and reconciliation with the North. ITS VERY COMPLICATED. Just because the South Korean government seems to ignore human rights in North Korea as an issue, that doesn't mean that the South Korean government isn't taking the most beneficial path towards relieving those human rights abuses as soon as possible. As long as North Korea remains isolated from the world, there will continue to be malnourished and starving children in NK.
Your assumption that pressuring North Korea will just stop the suffering is simplistic and mistaken. Instead, slapping on sanctions or threats to North Korea will only make the NK regime become even more cruel to their people to keep control. Furthermore, the NK regime is VERY UNLIKELY TO COLLAPSE. Back in 1996, perhaps, NK had a chance of being on the verge of collapse (just maybe), when the famine killed 2 million North Koreans. Today, 10 years later, it is a fantasy to think that North Korea will collapse just like that, even with the even death of Kim Jong Il (to old age). Although you might think this is irrelevant to the topic on hand, it is in fact, very relevant.
IF NORTH KOREA IS NOT GOING TO COLLAPSE, THEN THE SUNSHINE POLICY IS NOT "PROPPING UP" THE NK REGIME. Therefore, THEORETICALLY, there is absolutely no harm by increasing economic cooperation with the oppressive north korean regime and making the North Korean economy better. Economic cooperation, therefore, can do no harm, while only helping North Korea gain its economic footing - which would eventually actually help all North Koreans by reducing the need of the regime to rely on authoritarian rule to control its people.Skandalicious 04:58, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
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