WhyNK

Stalinist-controlled northern Korea, Communist China�s oldest and most loyal ally, has proven itself to be a danger to its own people, their fellow Koreans in the democratic South, and the rest of the world. For these reasons, we support the liberation of SCNK - either through the peaceful combination of containment, isolation, and support for dissidents, or, if necessary, military action. The Stalinist regime is not one that can be bribed, cajoled, or threatened to behave. In order for Korea to be united and free, and for the region and the world to be safer and more secure, the Stalinist regime must fall.

That SCNK is a danger to the world at large is no longer in doubt after its recent admission to having nuclear weapons, a violation of numerous agreements, including the 1994 Agreed Framework. This agreement allowed for two nuclear power plants to be built by the U.S., the Republic of Korea, and Japan, in SCNK. All that was required of the Stalinist regime was for it to allow inspectors to certify that its nuclear program was halted. Instead, SCNK continued and diversified its nuclear weapons program, but wouldn�t admit to it until confronted by American officials. Now, the Stalinist regime is back in the business of producing weapons-grade plutonium, in addition to the uranium-based weapons program to which they were forced to admit in the fall of 2002.

Asia�s democracies have also suffered from the regime�s outlaw behavior, and not just on nuclear weapons. Japan has lost at least 13 citizens to late-20th Century kidnappings by the Stalinist regime. According to SCNK, eight of those lost have died � although given the complete lack of biological evidence, it�s difficult to believe they are not still alive and refusing to cooperate with Kin Jong-Il�s regime. .

SCNK�s threat to democratic Korea is obvious in its standing army, the largest in the world, but that is not all the Stalinists have done to their democratic fellows. SCNK has a history filled with aggressive behavior towards the ROK, including crossing the sea border between the two several times, and firing on an ROK naval vessel in the summer of 2002, killing four ROK naval servicemen. All attempts by the democratic ROK for a thaw relations have either failed or succeed only with payoffs in money or material to the North - in particular the then-highly praised and now deeply questionned 2000 summit between then-ROK President Kim Dae-jung and Stalinist-in-chief Kim Jong-il.

Of course, SCNK can use whatever resources it can get, thanks to a spectacular economic mismanagement that has led to a massive famine. The regime has received millions of dollars worth of international food aid despite its aggressive, militaristic policies. What few have noticed is how the Stalinists have used that food aid, along with whatever scarce home grown food there is, as a political weapon, to silence, literally, their opponents. If you support the regime, you are well fed. Otherwise, the regime effectively says, �let them eat grass, or tree bark.� Millions have starved to death as a result of this deadly combination.

Starvation is not the only form of repression in SCNK. The more conventional methods of brutal repression � torture, imprisonment, etc. � are also very much in force. Special punishments come for those who try to escape to, of all places, Communist China. Of course, the People�s Republic, SCNK�s oldest ally, sends back any refugee it finds.

SCNK also has an extensive missile export industry, and its clients are the leading terrorist states on the planet. Iran, Iraq, and Syria have all been customers of the Stalinist regime. SCNK has also been a generation-long host and sanctuary for members of the Japanese Red Army, a terrorist group that hijacked a Japanese flight in 1970.

The regime has even conducted acts of terror itself. In addition to the aforementioned kindappings, the Stalinists are responsible for assassinating ROK cabinet members and the wife of an ROK President (her husband was the target). They also exploded a democratic Korean airliner in mid-air in 1987, killing over 100 passengers.

Through its actions against its own people, the ROL, Japan, the United States, and the rest of the world, Stalinist-controlled northern Korea has proven itself to be ripe for �regime change.� The liberation of SCNK would end this horrific regime and bring Korea that much closer to being united and free. Such would likely require a major economic readjustment for the ROK, and the U.S. should let them know that we will be there for them if they need us.

Any other policy regarding SCNK - even a "surgical strike" against its nuclear facilities - would simply allow the Stalinist regime to continue torturing and starving its people, threatening its neighbors, and attempting to acquire nuclear weapons.

SCNK has shown itself to be untrustworthy time after time, meaning any agreement on its nuclear ambitions, or anything else for that matter, would not be worth the paper on which it is printed. Any concessions involved in such a deal would go for naught.

The desire of the Korean people for freedom and national unity has only one true obstacle � the Stalinist regime founded by the late Communist Kim Il-Sung and currently controlled by his Communist son Kim Jong-Il. For the sake of all Koreans, and the rest of the world, that obstacle must be removed. The end of Stalinist-controlled northern Korea and a reunified, free Korea would mean safer world for all.

The only solution to the Korean situation is a Korea that is free, democratic, and whole. Policies with this goal in mind will be handsomely rewarded by history, and a grateful Korean people. Policies less ambitious, no matter how practical they may appear, are destined to fail.

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