HW 11 "Making Global Voices Heard"

The name of the blog that I decided to discuss for this assignment was the topic on The North Korean Zone titled, “The Tragedy of Building Trust with North Korea”. In this blog, it discussed how the International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors tried “shutting down North Korea's nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, and heavy fuel oil and humanitarian aid are shipping from South Korea to the North”. Throughout the argument, it talks about how North Korea is still in crisis and “playing to the domestic politics of other countries to command a higher price for its cooperation.” Whenever a country tries to build trust with North Korea, it always seems to backfire. The types of people who comment back on this type of blog are people who seem to be very confrontational about North Korean problems because they are probably from around there. They have a strong opinion on the issues.
Rebecca Mackinnon in her interview called, “Making Global Voices Heard” discussed why she chose to start her new career focused on North Korea. She tells us that the “media covers the stories in a haphazard fashion”. Mackinnon states that there are no blogs in North Korea. She started a blog there called the Watch Blog that is a group outside North Korea that talks about what is happening there. I feel that this blog parallels with the blog online because they both discuss the issues going on in North Korea and this place doesn’t have a very trustworthy government.
Of course, many will probably disagree with this assertion about the issues going on with North Korea. Mackinnon thinks that North Korean’s internet access is very bad because they’re scared about what their government might do to them. People from North Korea may think differently and that there government is not the problem. This could provide a conflicting issue within my blog.

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