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Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton said that the United States would not allow North Korea's attack on a South Korean's warship to go "unanswered". Together with Japan's Foriegn Minister, Hillary Clinton said that both the US and Japan will push to have an international response to North Korea instead of just a regional response. The attack occured on March 26th and this is Clinton's first public response. The US and Japan waited until the evidence was clear that North Korea was behind the attack. Clinton's quote, "I think it is important to send a clear message to North Korea that provacative actions have consequences", is a committment on the US's part that action will be taken. Forty six South Koreans died in the attack. Clinto will take he matter to the UN Security Council for punitive action.
Source: SF Chronicle 5/22/10
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Clearly North Korea deserves to be punished, but in my opinion, Hillary Clinton is acting very inappropriately here, speaking for South Korea. South Korea was the one who was hurt here, so why does the United States feel it is necessary to speak? We should help out, but it is not our conflict directly.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Mark, although I do not think that Clinton is acting inappropriately, at least in terms of how the United States acts in general. The U.S. for years now has always been asserting itself into situations of which no other country would ever dare. And being on the Security Council does not help this problem. We feel that if one country is threatened, then we are all threatened. In most cases, at least the ones I can think of, the only times that we do not care about the conflict, is when there are inner disputes within a country or citizens are killing/conflicting/fighting fellow citizens. So Mark, I think that maybe Clinton is just doing what feels right to America. It may not be a smart choice, but it is the United States' choice.
ReplyDeleteI would have to disagree with mark in this situation, because since North Korea has been threatening America in the past, them threatening South Korea can be interpreted as a threat to us. It is appropriate for us to keep a close watch on North Korea because of their large army and we were initially involved in the Korean War back in the 1950s. The more external arguments and conflicts we get into though, the more America will have on its plate in future generations and i think we have enough to deal with now in our own country, so in the future we should try to not become involved in issues that do not involve the US
ReplyDeleteI think that the US is doing the right thing. They should make themselves a threat to North Korea, so that no unjust actions are committed. If they don't put a stop to it now, then it could escalate, and get to be uncontrollable.
ReplyDeleteIt sounds like this could turn into a proxy war, which nations attacking other nations only to use this as an excuse to get at a third nation. In other words, some are claiming that North Korea is threatening/messing with the United States by attacking South Korea by proxy.
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