Butcher PAGE 2Butcher PAGE 1Chloe ButcherProfessor K. KoenigEnglish 1C12 September 2013What is the New Kid Thinking! If the world was a playground, Kim Jong Un is the new kid on the block; and his confusing actions-threats of nuclear war-seem to be his way proving himself to the other countries. A few months ago North Korea (almost daily) declared nuclear war on the United States and South Korea (New York Times.com). The frequency of these threats while at first very alarming, made the American public dismissive of the threat. After listening to many one sided reports on the issue, I decided to look for what the world thought of North Korea's war threats and the North Korean and Ameri ...view middle of the document...
This kind of unawareness about life altering problems is a perfect example of Self-deception and Denial.Separately, Europe takes on the stance that North Korea is just looking for a reason to become nuclear ready. To justify their actions for war, the South Korean and United States alliance has become the reason for their threats. This may be because North Korea feels that the alliance may be a cover for a surprise attack. BBC supports this with Andrea Berger's article analyzing North Korea's fear of the military exercises. There Berger says, "[They seem to be] skeptical that joint exercises are just about readiness to respond to attack"(BBC.co.uk). This point of view is important because it explains why North Korea might be so wary of the military exercises. In the 1950's Pyongyang used military exercise as the reason for their large scale military movement towards the 38th parallel; later sparking the Korean war (BBC.co.uk). Therefore, North Korea's wariness of the alliance has to do both with a fear of South Korea following in their footsteps and their strong want to be nuclear ready. The two reasons work hand in hand to work as North Korea's rationalization of why it is okay to declare nuclear war on a country.Alternatively, The Middle East perhaps paints the best picture of the situation with their emphasis on the Partisan Mindset. Partisan Mindset is best described as viewing everything as us against them. So it is not very confusing that Al Jazeera emphasized t...
