Monday, September 4, 2017

Pompous Public Media ( and how it's incorrect)

North Korea, a country everybody knows about and quite frankly could care less about with it's small geographical size and censoring of any inside and outside media. However, recent events have unfolded where North Korea has been trying to "prove itself to the world" by sending threats to other countries and even going so far as to try and launch a ballistic missile at the United States (emphasis on the 'try'). Now, as anyone can imagine the media has been all over this whole scenario. Going over talks between members of the United Nations such as Russia and China, the old allies of North Korea during the Korean War, and the United States and South Korea (the other side of the Korean War). This, so far, has all been O.K. for the modern world, Russia and China have no plans to help North Korea in these endeavors and everyone's planning to basically do whatever they can to completely defuse the situation without violence but are prepared to solve it with violence if necessary (thanks Cold War arms race). The only problem in all of this is the media. The media on the subject so far has been making rapid and disproportionate claims that "This is the Next Cuban Missile Crisis except with North Korea!" and that "Trump's taking on both Kim Jong Un and Putin it's basically the same thing!!!!!!!!!!" As a rather well informed history buff on the Cuban Missile Crisis I can tell you this 'incident' is nothing like it. First of all, Putin and Russia are AGAINST North Korea and on our side (for now) so that's the alliance similarities out the window. Second is the fact that Cuba actually posed a threat and was avidly supplied by its allies. North Korea has absolutely NO ONE on their side and can't even pose a significant nuclear war scare like the Cuban Missile Crisis did since they don't and won't have nuclear missiles until at least a year from now andcan't even launch their ballistic missiles (the one they tried shooting at the U.S. crashed in the Japanese Sea). Now, that's not to say North Korea poses no threat to anyone, but they definitely don't pose a threat to the United States like Cuba did during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

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