Article Review : AUTOCRACY IN NORTH KOREA

The supreme leader of north korea Kim Jong il is leading his nation on the same track in which saddam hussain leaded. but breaching the agreement signed between the superpower u.s. and north korea is not a good sign for the citizens of north korea as u.s. has already revealed the Iraq show.

This review is based on the article captioned as “North Korea, the Next Iraq?”

The nuclear threat

Breaking of the agreement signed between united states of America and democratic republic of korea without any conversation or information. In October 2002, while in Pyongyang, Assistant Secretary of State was informed by his North Korean counterparts that North Korea had revived its nuclear weapons program. This resumption of nuclear weapons development was, according to the U.S. State Department, a "material breach" of an agreement forged eight years earlier between the two nations in which North Korea agreed to give up pursuit of nuclear weapons technology in return for a foreign aid package totaling $5 billion. The agreement also included a commitment by the United States to help build light-water reactor power plants in North Korea.

In December 2002, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) were expelled from North Korea. North Korean officials also destroyed surveillance cameras and monitoring equipment, and they broke IAEA locks, enabling their entry into nuclear facilities at Yongbyon, where 8,000 nuclear fuel rods have been stored since 1994.

North Korea's nuclear weapons program got under way in the 1980s with the construction of a small nuclear reactor. North Korea then yielded to international pressure and joined the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1985. Before its recent withdrawal from the treaty, several violations were committed by North Korea, including shutting down a reactor so that fuel rods could be reprocessed for the extraction of plutonium(as in report presented by nuclear control institute 1994).

A nuclear threat initiative group was founded in 2001 by news mogul Ted Turner and former U.S. Senator Sam Nunn. The Nuclear Threat Initiative looks for ways to reduce the global threat posed by nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. An online research library features a wealth of detailed information about North Korea's arsenals of suspected nuclear, chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction. Maps of suspected sites are included, along with descriptions and chronologies of activity in various facilities where such weapons are made.

Despite of having considerable number of disputes with international bodies kim jong il continue inceasing and testing his nuclear power .

The underground bomb North Korea detonated was equivalent in strength to those dropped by the United States on the Japanese cities of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. In response, the U.S. and Japan will likely call for strong sanctions. They are, after all, well positioned to do so: Neither country has a land border with North Korea, so if the North Korean regime of Kim Jong il were to implode as a result of punitive economic penalties, they would suffer no hardships.

So citizens of north korea need think about their personal security cover as the nation is at the verge.