Introduction Recently, the United Nations has announced that being allowed to have an internet connection is a fundamental human right since it enables communication, collaboration and learning at a vastly reduced cost and at greater efficiency. However, North Korea has been adamant in limiting the capacity of its population in being able to connect to the internet. This is, in part related to its stringent controls on the freedom of speech within its borders and how it facilitates control and obedience through the dissemination of ignorance and propaganda (Beck, 2011). In this paper, an analysis will be conducted involving the current issue of North Korea’s limitation of its citizen’s right to the freedom of speech by preventing them from connecting to the internet and how this is an international politics issue since it propagates the bellicose rhetoric (i.e. threats directed against other countries) that North Korea is known for due to its status as an isolationist state (Gordy & Lee, 2009). It is the assumption of this paper that the limitations placed on internet connectivity within North Korea prevent notions related to peaceful international cooperation from disseminating among the citizens of the country which leads to the continued adverse relationship that North Korea has with other nations in the area of international politics. Freedom of Speech, the Internet and its Influence on International politics Within the past decade, the internet has become a source of communication and collaboration wherein people become capable of expressing views and opinions to a worldwide audience (Swaffield, 2009). It is a tool for free speech that has allowed the dissemination of ideas across cultures and continents, resulting in a much more informed global society. Becker (2005) notes that the internet has even become a tool which has helped to influence international politics due to the greater level of communication, interaction and connectivity that it provides (Becker, 2005). Through the internet, ideas involving democracy, free trade, peaceful relations and other positive notions have helped to influence international politics resulting in people and nations advocating for better and more peaceful relations as a direct result of ideas that they gained from the internet (Park, 2008). One of the reasons why the internet has become a popular avenue of communication and collaboration has been the general consensus by viewers and listeners alike that the mass media is invariably biased, thus necessitating a better means of learning about global and local events (Alterman 2003). The necessity of access to unbiased information in order to enact positive change in a country can be seen in the heavily censored media of North Korea which limits the ability of its citizens to know more about the outside world. People in North Korea only know what the government sanctions them to know and, as a result, this has influenced its current standpoint in international politics (Parsons, 2012). With a citizenry that does not know any better, this has the effect of them acquiescing to the actions of their government as being correct, which has resulted in the various threats that the country has directed towards South Korea and the U.S. as well as its nuclear arms