Three issues against North Korea.

The West has surely underestimated North Korea. Mostly, they have underestimated what it's like to live there. We cannot imagine what it is like to have such little worth in one's life. To be under the complete control of a system as the word authoritarianism has always implied. We can best get an idea from the lucky few who have managed to escape from the prison that is the DPRK. Before making any decisions, or opinions on any issue regarding North Korea it is important that we at least know what we're dealing with. At least, we should learn what we can from defectors. Anyone who reads this debate and especially my opponent should do some simple research on the Internet, utilising a great luxury of the West, in the privacy and comfort of their homes, and for a moment to imagine what it would be to experience life as the defectors have. Anyone who can compare various takes on life to life in North Korea knows that human rights abuses, more importantly violations of humanity, in the country need to stop without hesitation. The only thing that is disputed is how. (Although some would certainly dispute who this job belongs to.) Knowing the grip the North Korea's leader has on the country, we conclude that this isn't easy. It is highly unlikely that a mass revolt will take place in North Korea tomorrow, even while the Worker's Party may well go too far to the point that such mass outrage will occur, as we nearly saw with the famine and more so with the currency revaluation. It isn't easy given North Korea's evident military strength, and its possible alliance with another great military power. It isn't easy given the system the world has created to deal with these matters and enforce international law. The best thing we can do is make it easy. For those nations with the conscience and determination to do something about the problem, we must break down our objective to a simple and fundamental idea - that human beings are suffering needlessly, under the stolen power of an maniacal bully, and we have the ability to help them. Full-scale violence and war is not a desirable image, although given our current military technological capacity, we may not ever need see that. Even so, a more civilised option remains favourable. We have a justice system which is designed so that people who have seized power in foreign countries and commit abhorrent crimes will not be protected by boundaries. There are some flaws that could make it difficult to use this system to help North Korea, but there's a simple and perhaps what sounds like a childish one at first - do it anyway. If you think about it you have to ask yourself, why not? Does the North Korean government, knowing all that we know, deserve the same rights of sovereignty as countries who treat their citizens like real people? No it does not. In any case, if the international community put ample pressure on North Korea, it is very possible that something can be done, but it takes people to care about the issues first. For the United States or for anyone to make deals with the devil that is Kim Jong-il does not help at all. Negotiation on his terms is not acceptable. The United States should not sign a treaty with North Korea, but should instead continue its protest against its atrocities. You may have noticed that when defectors groups and other North Korean human rights groups talk about what needs to be done, they don't protest in a complicated way. I too have used the words "save" or "rescue" in place of a longer phrase like "End human rights abuses in North Korea". It is because the idea that is being conveyed is simple and elemental - the people of North Korea need to be rescued from a tyrant with which it is not going to be possible to negotiate rationally. They need to be saved from the death of their beings that are threatened by the chains that bind them. They need to be delivered from the pain and suffering that is beyond any of our wildest dreams. With our conscience, we simply cannot allow for the extreme injustices of North Korea to continue under any circumstances.