To have so much negative energy amongst the country North Korea sure does love the spotlight...
Today, CNN featured an article discussing North Korean defectors. Defectors are those who have spoken out against their country, their leader, their ideals, etc. CNN interviewed North Korean defectors to see how it has affected them- past and present.
The article was eye-opening.
One woman interviewed, Grace Jo, was raised in North Korea in the 1990's during which a famine was occurring. Jo and her family escaped and now live in the United States where she voices concern for her former neighbors. Jo discusses how the state of North Korea has become so appalling that she hopes for a military act of defiance on North Korea's part just so someone will shoot North Korea down.
In the video featured, the newest event in North Korea is that a group of restaurant owners (defectors coincidentally) have gone "missing". Their families believe they are being held captive and fear that they will face "prison camps, abandonment or worse".
Do you think you would have the courage to speak out against someone you believed was in the wrong? What consequences would you face for doing so? I believe that the United States feels much sympathy for North Korean and that we truly do want to help. However, we are aware that by doing so we will enrage a vicious leader (Kim Jong Un). With the threat of a missile launching the United States may soon find herself backed against a wall and have no choice but to retaliate.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/17/us/north-koreans-defectors-us/index.html