Monday, March 19, 2012

Two Steps Back

This article talks about a recent agreement that between the United States and North Korea. The U.S. promised to give aid to North Korea in the way of food and supplies if North Korea would promise to allow UN officials access to the working or nuclear weapons within Korea. North Korea has already violated this in a way because they announced on March 16 that they will launch a new satellite called Kwangmyongsong-3.
While a satellite is not necessary a weapon or a missile, the UN says the technology of a satellite is so similar to a missile that the ban on nuclear weapons should include a ban on satellites. This article relates to our class because North Korea is one of the two countries who still uses a socialist system, and it is big news if they are willing even slightly to come make agreements with the U.S. or the United Nations.

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