In a world full of hostility and hate, war is inevitable. Countries have fought for centuries over land, freedom, and resources. But it has never been until the 21st century that countries have started to threaten nuclear war because of injured pride, reputation, or just dislike of another country. The most recent and believeable threat comes from North Korea to the United States. But make no mistake; this threat of nuclear warfare from North Korea, is a threat to every country and their citizens.

Since the beginning of the Kim dynasty in 1948, North Korea has been a symbol of oppresion and communism. The Kim dynasty has had three rulers in its time. Kim Jong Un is arguably the worst out of the three. His grandfather started the Korean War and his dad caused a four year famine in the turbulent country. But Kim Jong Un, in the six years since he took over as Supreme Leader, has threatened more countries and imposed stricter laws and punishments on his people. The young ruler even killed off his older brother because he was worried his brother would try to take over as ruler. His actions have heated up since he took over in 2011.  Since that time, tensions between North Korea and the U.S. have been steadily getting uglier and nastier. For years North Koreas threats of nuclear warfare have been scoffed at until now. North Korea finally has the capability to fit nukes onto intercontinental missiles (Campbell 1).

Since the end of the Korean War in 1953, North Korea and South Korea have been divided at the 38th parallel. However, this is just a ceasefire considering no actual treaty was ever actually signed. For over 60 years the U.S. has had to keep armed forces on the 38th parallel on South Korea’s side because of North Korea’s desire to regain control of its southern counterpart. Today the U.S. has 20,000 soldiers deployed in South Korea to help protect the country and its citizens. With North Korea’s missile threat gaining more and more legitimacy and relevance, South Korea is now very much in danger of being North Korea’s first target (Beauchamp 1).

The United Nations has tried to keep North Korea’s productivity at bay for years. They have put restrictions and tariffs on North Korea but with every new setback North Korea adapts and keeps their missile research and production up and running.  These adaptations include sacrificing their resources and citizens for money and a military. The most recent sanction of North Korea removes upwards of one billion dollars a year, almost one ninth of their annual production. The goal of these increasingly harsh setbacks is to cut North Korean profits by three billion, almost one third of its current annual income. This may make North Korea even more hostile to foreign countries. North Korean citizens have suffered tremendously as the country tries to grow its production of nukes and its technological advances in nukes faster and faster. If a nuclear war starts between North Korea and another country, North Korean citizens may end up suffering far worse than ever before (Taylor 1)

Recently, there has been a possible catalyst for a war. On September 22nd, in response to Trumps threates at the UN convention, Kim Jong Un delivered a rare televised appearance. This means that North Korea is taking the threats from the U.S. seriously and they are prepared to release hydrogen bombs into the atmopshere. That has not been done by any country since the launching of H-bombs into the atmosphere was internationally banned 35 years ago. This is because of fallout that these testings create, which still gives cancer to people today. North Korea’s foreign minister reports that they have a bomb 2,000 times more powerful than Hiroshima. After the U.S. testing of Shrimp, another H-bomb 1,000 times more powerful than Hiroshima, left a crater in the Earth so large that you could see it from space, H-bombs have been a known danger to everyone’s health. The fact that North Korea would threaten any country with that, is a very serious and dangerous matter (Mosher 1).

With North Korea’s increasing notoriety and intercontinental threats, the security of any nation’s citizens could be in danger. Like all other tyrannies before it, North Korea needs to be wiped out. North Korea is a danger to the entire world and these most recent threat of bombings, are the beginning of the end.