North Korea: The battle for human rights - ENDS 03/09/17

[Brad]

Lately I have been hearing more about North Korea than I have been and maybe it is because of Trump and the United states waging arguments back and forth as other countries are on the edge of their seats biting her nails just waiting to see if World War 3 would make it's appearance.
North Korea has been under dictatorship for many generations of Kim's, and even up to today they, being North Koreans, are being restricted from their natural basic human rights. I had recently watched a youtube video of a 24 year old North Korean woman who had escaped with her mother to Mongolia. Throughout her speaking out she had opened up to many situations where her human rights as an individual were stripped away.


Which brings me to my debate topic:

Should the world step in and fight for North Korea's people for their human rights?

"North Korea operates secretive prison camps where perceived opponents of the government are sent to face torture and abuse, starvation rations, and forced labor. Fear of collective punishment is used to silence dissent. There is no independent media, functioning civil society, or religious freedom."

If you are for the world stepping in and fighting for the human rights of North Koreans, what is your motive behind it?

If you are against going into North Korea and fighting for human rights of North Koreans, what is your thinking for this?

I know that if we are looking at it from both sides; North Korea has been this dictatorship power house for many dynasties, If the world has turned a blind eye on North Korea for this long, what makes now different than any other time in history?
Let me know your thoughts. Let the debate begin!

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[-:Undertaker:-]

No, purely for the fact that I believe human rights are a baseless concept and that to enforce human rights (enforcement *makes* them rights or else they become a concept) means some sort of international policing of national laws which breaches national sovereignty.

Any decision on North Korea will be made in national interests and whether a sovereign state feels it's national security/interests is under threat in the short or long term from North Korea - this is what most war is about. Until then, the situation will remain the same.

[Neversoft]

It's a difficult situation to which being for or against isn't really applicable. Of course, nobody wants to live under a dictator, and I am sure many want to help the impoverished people of North Korea, but how do you go about that? For real change to happen in the country, the government needs to be overthrown entirely and democracy introduced — or the country needs to be reunified. That is no small feat, and if the world police were to go over there tomorrow and start shooting up Kim Jong-un and his military, how many will die?

People seem to forget (and today's generation don't appear to be aware) that South Korea was also led by an authoritarian government just forty years ago. It was not as severe as what has been seen in the North, but innocent citizens were nonetheless massacred at the hands of the government in their fight for democracy. I also think the US are hypocrites somewhat, as they actively fought to prevent democracy in 1980 when they supported the Chun Doo-hwan government and quietly took the place of the Southern military at the North-South border, so the South Korean forces could go off and quash entire towns by using deadly force.

The process of democratising a country is not a simple one and I do wonder what North Korea will look like in a few decades time. The populace of South Korea must be anxious being caught between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.