In every elementary class room across the world, there sits a child that constantly seeks attention. Attention from teachers, from peers, from his elders and his juniors. When they do not get the attention they want, they do more drastic things. It starts with something small, but if the issue is never addressed, it can turn into something huge. These children can become rebellious; they can become bullies; they can be a danger to themselves or others. As you have probably guessed, North Korea is this attention obsessed child.
A Los Angeles Times headline stated: “As North Korea readies rocket launch, U.S. turns up pressure”. Are we surprised? It seems like every week N. Korea is doing something to instill the world of fear. This week they are “readying” rocket launches, last week they are threatening the world about something that is now irrelevant. Just like the elementary child, N. Korea is insecure. Just as an example, North Korea has been working on a Hotel project to bring in tourism since 1987. Shortly after the building’s skeleton was complete the project ran out of money and construction was put to a halt. For 16 years the building sat there uncompleted. To this day, over 20 years later it is still considered “under construction”.
North Korea cannot be ignored. It does have threatening capabilities, but instead of publishing their “goals” (which we have seen is not a reliable source of information) in our daily papers, why not put them in their place? Not in an aggressive war-like way, that’s what they would want, but in a intellectual way, such as trade. This North Korean situation is getting old; I predict that next week, N. Korea does something to try and intimidate the world. The worst thing the world could do is actually let N. Korea think they have control over people’s fear.
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