BY RYAN CHRISTIAN, Senior
BLYTHEWOOD -- On Sept. 14 North Korea threatened to sink Japan and turn the United States into ‘ashes and darkness’, according to Independent. The threat by North Korea was caused by the United Nations imposing sanctions over their nuclear and missile programs.
The UN implemented these sanctions the week when North Korea completed its sixth nuclear test.
“Tensions will continue to rise until precautions are met,” senior Shane Clark said.
In 2016, South Korea stopped providing aid to North Korea, after their northern neighbors started conducting experiments for creating weapons of mass destruction. This denial set a precedent for other restrictions and limitations to come.
A ban on many natural resources have been made to limit North Korea’s nuclear bomb testing, as stated by Independent. Some of these natural resources include natural gas and crude oil.
North Korea’s latest messages given by themselves, said that Japan was a puppet of the U.S. and that South Korea were “traitors and dogs”.
Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga retorted and said “This announcement is extremely provocative and egregious,” according to Independent.
North Korea possesses very antagonistic ideals toward the entire world.
“This is not how you’d expect civilized countries to behave,” and that the belligerence of North Korea, “is not logical,” Donald Robinson, a U.S. Government teacher at Blythewood High, said.
North Korea is a controlled environment, where rights are very limited to citizens, as stated by Independent.
“North Korea should allow the rights of citizens to educate themselves on information located not only in the borders of their own country, but around the world,” Sanghee Christian, a woman from South Korea, said.
The U.S., South Korea, and North Korea are still technically at war, because a treaty was not made in the years 1950 to 1953, according to Independent.
