Tuesday, November 4, 2008

North Korea back on "the list"?

This article talks about how the U.S. stopped a flight supposedly carrying parts to assemble WMD's (weapons of mass destruction) to Iran. The U.S. convinced India to not allow the Ilyushin-62 jet to fly through their air space. North Korea was just removed from the terror list that America has but it seems as though they shouldn't have. If the U.S. had reasons to stop them from "shipping" supplies to Iran then that could potentially be a huge argument for whether or not Iran is good. A senior U.S. official told the post this, "This was very, very important. It was frankly a success that we stopped North Korea from doing this." According to this article it is questionable if North Korea has kept its nose clean and been doing what the U.S. asked them to do in order for them to get off of the Black List. This whole ordeal happened on August 7th according to this article by the way. I am a little foggy as to when Iran was taken off of the black list... that would help me better understand this whole ordeal.


I just think this whole North Korea business is crazy. It just shows the true character of North Korea... they were given a second chance and failed at that! I guess this is where I really need to practice cultural relativism because according to my views as of now, I just don't get why they are doing this. Some research would help me out but as of now, without research, I think the fact that they were possibly sending supplies to make WMD's to Iran is outrageous. I think that North Korea is a threat and should be placed back on the terror list whether or not they disagree. Until they work to earn a 3rd chance...sorry North Korea back to the dog house. Sometimes old dogs just can't learn new tricks... it's too bad but I guess it is true. Part of me wants to give it another try and try to teach the dog a new trick but the other half says come on be realistic, he'll never learn. I don't really know if the plane was actually carrying sophisticated missile parts like the article said but if it was I truly want to know what North Korea was/is thinking. This has been another blog from Charlie Warnes, just another common high school student... take it or leave it.
~Charlie~

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