Essay:The Motive Force Behind Nuclear Development and Isolation in the DPRK

We have heard of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s “self-imposed isolation” and the state has been incessantly referred to as a “hermit kingdom”, but what is the root of this idea? What we have in reality is a state that has, in the course of its history, attempted to form peaceful relations, to establish travel, and to usher in the signing of a new peace treaty for the cause of reunification. On the other hand, the United States, the world’s paramount military aggressor, and its front group the “United” Nations has rebuffed these overtures, introducing limitations on travel for the purposes of producing a skewed image of a “hostile rogue state” incapable of negotiations, while at the same time escalating tensions.

The idea that north Korea is both so adamant on isolationism and preventing free travel that it must be stopped at all costs, and at the same time that north Korea is making so much money from allowing laborers to travel to neighboring countries that travel restrictions must be put in place (and that in addition travel restrictions relating to planes, ships, and embassies must be put in place), is preposterous. Isolation is brought about by firstly hostile nations which have at one point or another threatened to or succeeded in attacking the DPRK, by the U.S. which perpetrated a genocidal campaign in the Korean War, or by the (U.S. puppet state) Republic of Korea whose military is under de-jure control of Amerika in“wartime." Sanctions have demonstrated that isolation is not a choice made simply to pursue “authoritarian” ends but rather a direct campaign by the UN, the U.S., and puppet Korea forced upon the DPRK.