Questions to Address:
1. What should be the MOST important goals in this simulation?
2. What steps should your country take toward achieving your goals?
3. What options do you have if you DO NOT achieve your goals?
4. How will the people of North Korea be affected by your plans?
5. Explain the strongest arguments supporting your plan. Provide evidence demonstrating your plan is likely to be successful.
6. What are the two strongest arguments opposing your plan?
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1. The most important goal in this simulation is the denuclearization of North Korea.
ReplyDelete2. Russia is willing to give North Korea aid, and also does not encourage harsh sanctions but is willing to if necessary.
3. Harsh Sanctions, otherwise many refugee camps would be in order.
4. If it comes to hard sanctions, North Koreans might possibly flee the country and there could be a refugee crisis.
5. Russia's main goal is the denuclearization of North Korea and our strongest argument is that aid is the only way to acheive this goal without destabalizing North Korea's economy and also avoiding a refugee crisis. In the past Russia has never had a flood of refugee no matter the harsh conditions of North Korea.
6. One argument opposing our plan is that aid has never worked in the past with denuclearization, and another argument is the fact that North Korea tends to lie.
Molly, Joe, Hannah (China)
ReplyDelete1. The most important goals in this simulation are to find a coopoerative solution to denuclearize North Korea and put them in a position in which they can be self-efficient.
2. One step we will take is to negotiate with North Korea as well as other parties to make a proposal that leaves North Korea and everyone else satisfied. We are North Korea's largest trading partner and biggest supporter. Most of their energy and food comes from China. Without us North Korea will have difficulty standing strongly. We would like to discuss this with them in order to possibly persuade them.
3.If we do not achieve our goals, we have the ability to freeze trade and support in any sector.
4. Without Chinese aid, 90% of their trade and assistance is completely diminished. North Koreans can barely survive as it is without Chinese help. If we stop our trade, they will likely find starvation issues. If an agreement is made, the North Korean society will improve, for China will be more willing to help them out because the nuclear issue is putting strain on the Chinese-North Korea relationship.
5. The strongest argument supporting our plan is our strong relationship and trade with North Korea. Before we helped them out with the Korean war, North Korea had a lot of problems. It is clear that they need us. We provide 80% of their commerce and 45% of their food. Our plan is likely to be successful because it wouldn't make sense for North Korea to put the things they need to survive at risk.
6. A strong argument opposing our plan is that killing off trade with North Korea will probably cause a lot of death in the country, which wouldn't be a good idea to create. We are also trying to promote communism through North Korea, and this will be lost if the relationship between China and North Korea is weakened. China-North Korea relations have always been friendly and supportive, and this would also be put at risk, but at the same time China does not support nuclear weapons and the fact that North Korea does has been harming our relationship with them.
1. The most important goals of this simulation should be to not only stop North Korea's nuclear activity, but to aid the civilians of North Korea. The starving people of the DPRK need food, water, shelter, and other means of humanitarian aid. We need to try and convince Kim Jong-Il to allow either countries or NGOs into its country to provide necessities.
ReplyDelete2. Noting Japan's history with North Korea, we would not go about giving North Korea aid directly. We would instead try and convince North Korea to allow or accept NGO's through threataning to put more sanctions if they don't allow the NGO's.
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3. Japan, if goals are not met, will possibly enforce more sanctions upon North Korea. Japan has already decreased the amount of undeclared cash going into North Korea, and now has the right to inspect suspicious North Korean cargo on ships. In the future, it is possible that Japan may further decrease the the amount of undeclared cash going into North Korea, and may reduce Japanese exports going into North Korea.
4. The economy of North Korea will be hurt by these sanctions because of the decrease of incoming cash. Japan will not, however, post any sanctions against humanitarian aid.
5. Because of North Korea's previous attacks on Japan, Japan is nervous that North Korea will strike again, but this time with nuclear power. By initiating a nuclear weapons program or strengthening the mility, Japan hopes to protect the country from North Korea. Since other countries have expressed their concern about North Korea and Japan entering an arms race, Japan supports the idea of strong sanctions against North Korea. If North Korea can get by with nuclear weapons without being punished, Japan should be allowed to do whatever it takes to protect the country. If strong sanctions are imposed on North Korea to discourage North Korea from using nuclear weapons, then there will be no need to Japan to initiate a nuclear weapons program, ending any chance for an arms race.
6. Other countries may feel that strong sanctions will cause unhappy North Koreans to cross borders into other countries, therefore discouraging Japan's idea. Other countries may also argue that even though Japan wishes to give North Korea humanitarian aid, the North Korean government either will not accept or will not give it to those in need.
The above comment was posted by Japan: Noel, Danielle Fortin, and Colleen
ReplyDeleteOn behalf of South Korea:
ReplyDelete1. a. Denuclearize Korean penninsula.
b. Reduce tensions on the penninsula
c. Resolve humanitarian issues between the two Koreas
d. Reunification of families separated between the North and South
e. Ultimately unify North and South Korea
2. a. Denuclearize Korean Penninsula
b. Advance inter-Korean relations:
-Personal saftey for Korean people
-Transparant exchange and cooperation
c. Settle humanitarian issues:
- Civilian organizations
- Care for North Korean refugees through employment
d. Unify Korea
- Strengthen internal infrastructure
- International network
- Greener Korean penninsula
3. If these goals are not achieved, then there is no choice but to continue on as is because there is really no other peaceful option.
4. Theoretically, the the lives of people of North Korea will improve. Trade will increase and therefore the overall stability of the penninsula will increase as well.
5. South Korea currently provides aid to North Korea. Another argument for the plan is that trade would help stabilize the North Korean economy and decrease the need for concentration camps to produce goods.
6. One of the arguments against the plan is that the two governments will not be able to agree. Another argument against the plan is that North Korea is unlikely to comply with the plan.
1. To find an end North and SOuth Korea's conflict and North Koreas's nuclear program.
ReplyDelete2.One on one talks between the US and North Korea
3. This is classified information that has been discussed with Ms. Field.
4. The economy will be effected by sanctions as well as every person who will be effected by the economy.
5. North Korea has not been listening and being threatening and this needs to be fixed for it is a threat to international security.
6.North Korea has a crazy government and is not afraid to disobey sanctions or anything else for that matter.
Love, The US <3
The Greatest Delegation: North Korea
ReplyDelete1. The most important goals of the simulation is not to denuclearize North Korea, but to instill boundaries that all countries can agree on. If rules are set in places for North Korea and we are given aid where it is needed, we may be able to agree with other countries and negotiate. The only reason for there being no negotiation is that North Korea feels threatened by most of the other countries. We are protecting our country just as other countries would.
2. To achieve the goals of aid and possible rules followed for the nuclear activities in North Korea, we would follow our part of the goals if other countries followed theirs. For example, if we did not see some countries as such a threat, maybe we would be able to listen to other countries about the control of our nuclear weapons. This means that the goals can only be achieved if North Korea is being seen as equal to the other countries and not "crazy" as the U.S. has stated.
3. If the goals are not achieved, other options would be to test our nuclear weapons whenever we feel it is our obligation to protect North Korea. Every other delegation wants to denuclearize North Korea, but that would leave us with no nuclear energy, which is something that North Korea needs.
4. The people of North Korea will be getting more aid if the negotiations followed through. Without nuclear energy we would need a lot of aid from other countries and we do not think that they are ready to do so. If other countries would like to give us aid for sacrifices we would make without the nuclear energy, the people would benefit from the change.
5. Our plan is effective because of the obvious fact that these are regulations set up by North Korea. We would be more likely to follow our own plans and not that of others we do not trust. For example, North Korea was listed by the U.S. as a terrorist country in earlier years. The last terrorist country declared by the U.S. was Afghanistan, who they are currently in a war with. We do not want this to happen because we care about the safety of our people. Our plan is also effective because aid could largely reduce the lack of food in agricultural area's of North Korea.
6. A strong argument opposing our plan would be that many do not trust North Korea and the nuclear power we have. Another argument would be that there may not be reason to aid a government such as North Korea's. But both of these statements can also be denied because aid is for the people and not the government. And there are other countries with nuclear power such as ours and are not as threatened as North Korea is by other countries.
I'd like to echo the statements made by North Korea.
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