Check out this story from a North Korean defector.
“Many North Koreans believe that the United States is their savior and the only nation that can liberate North Korea,” he said. The flood of hate-America propaganda from North Korea represents only the relatively small number of people around Kim Jong-Il, he said.“We cannot expect to bring down the regime of Kim Jong-il by internal means,” Park said. “A pre-emptive U.S. strike against selected targets inside North Korea will succeed,” he said.
“U.S. strikes against North Korean targets would force Kim Jong-il to seek asylum in China. Kim is a coward. If attacked, he will flee. The North Korean army would not fight after the regime collapsed,” he said.
We need to take out the nuclear capability of North Korea immediately, before they have the full nuclear capability to blackmail the United States for foreign aid.
Every dictatorship, by its very nature, must survive by looting others. The government of a dictatorship does not have the means to produce anything, so it must take money from its citizens in order to fund its operations. This entails the initiation of force against the citizens under this dictatorship. The force involves making citizens physically unable to reap the full benefits of their own labor, which as a result, causes the individual to be unable to fully use their mind to the extent that they are physically forced. An individual is unable to use their mind when they are forced because of the very nature of the human mind. The human mind is volitional, which means, one must choose to think or not to think. A human being can not choose between two or more alternatives when they are forced to act on one of those alternatives.
Freedom is an essential requirement of an individual’s survival, and therefore the survival of a society as well. To the extent that a society is not free, that society will suffer the consequences of not being able to survive. For an indvidual, not being able to use his own mind means that he will be unable to produce the conditions required by his nature as a human being in order to survive. Because of this fact, in a dictatorship, where there is little or no freedom, the conditions of the dictatorship will increasingly worsen; first, with the government sucking the life out of its citizens until there is little left; second, the looting of another group of individuals in order to survive, and continuing to do so until either the government is destroyed by an outside power or there are no more groups left to loot, which would result in the destruction of the dictatorship as well.
Every dictatorship today attempts to survive through two means: conquest of other nations, or mooching aid under the veil of altruism from powerful countries. Centuries ago, there were numerous dictatorships who survived by the means of the first, conquest of other nations. In modern society, war is heavily frowned upon and may bring immediate sanction from many others in the world. Now, most dictatorships turn to the second method. They appeal to the alleged “duty” of the freest nations of the world (which are also the most successful) to pour money into their dictatorship. One reason why some claim that the successful nations of the world have this is duty is because of the false idea that wealth is fixed, and when one country gains wealth, it is taking wealth away from others. Thus, the economically successful nations have a “duty” to “give back” what they have expropriated from third world countries.
As a result of this alleged duty on the part of the successful nations, these dictatorships have found a new source to loot from. Now, these dictatorships play on the “guilt” of the economically successful nations and are therefore able to survive as a parasite for a long period of time. This is readily apparent with the situation with North Korea. North Korea however doesn’t only live off of the second method of mooching, but the first as well. The people of North Korea are starving, which is a regular condition of a dictatorship. In response to this, nations such as the U.S. provide aid to North Korea so that the people of North Korea will not starve to death, which on the face of it, seems like a very humane and benevolent thing to do. However, this action of giving food aid to North Korea allows the dictatorship to continue its existence. Instead of having to be concerned with feeding its starving population and deal with rising desent because of it, North Korea can pour a lot of money into its military. If North Korea (and all other dictatorships like it) can amass a large military force, or a large amount of power through nuclear weapons, they can extort more money from the economically successful nations of the world. This is exactly what is happening with the U.S. and North Korea today, and in the past 50 years.
Jimmy Carter, the alleged genius of peace, brokered such a deal with the North Koreans many years ago. In exchange for “promising” not to continue to amass a large military and nuclear weapons program, Carter delivered aid to the country (he also made similar “deals” with many other dictatorships). The same happened again in 1994 with Bill Clinton. It was discovered that the North Koreans were reconstituting their nuclear weapons program and other such programs designed to gain power. In response to this, Clinton brokered a very similar “deal” with the North Koreans, allowing them to continue to stay in power.
Now, the same situation is happening again. We have discovered that the North Koreans are very close to achieving a full nuclear weapons program, and they are threatening to attack South Korea, Japan, and the U.S., unless we continue to give them aid. Currently we are engaged in “multilateral discussions” with the North Koreans. This simply means that we are discussing new means by which the North Koreans will extort money from us. It amounts to the United States saying: there is no need for you to develop a nuclear weapons program in order to extort money from us, we will give you money without any such threat, we will allow you to continue to murder and torture your people, free of charge.
The foreign policy of the United States is an unspeakable evil. All across the world, we deliver aid to similar dictatorships in similar situations. Many believe that our giving aid to the people of brutal dictatorships is a wonderful, benevolent thing. But, it is not. Giving aid to the people under dictatorships is a sanction of those very dictatorships. It allows those dictatorships to maintain power and continue to kill its people. What is more beneficial to these people, temporary aid which will result in the furtherance of the dictatorship or taking action to rid the country of dictatorship? By not giving aid to the citizens or the government of a dictatorship, we remove the main source of power from which these brutal dicatorships survive. Now, it is not the “duty” of the U.S. to rid the world of dictatorships. However, it is certainly not right for the U.S. to be supporting them either.
The North Korean situation is just one in many where the United States is directly aiding brutal dictatorships. We put Saddam Hussein into power, we put the Taliban into power, we support the terrorist group the Palestinian Authority, and we support, and have put into power, countless others.
What should we do to change this policy? The immediate rebuttal of all of our previous foreign policy actions regarding the sanction of dictatorships, and the full condemnation of every single dictatorship in the world. This entails removing all aid from every single dictatorship, and taking action against those dictatorships in which it is in our self-interest to do so, such as Iran, North Korea, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and others.
Our response to extortion should not be appeasement, but rather elimination of the threat. Therefore, we should immediately eliminate the North Korean threat by removing all aid to their country, and striking their nuclear weapons capability, which, as a secondary consequence, will free millions of people from brutal dictatorship.
