I know that most people think this must be a joke. But it isn't. I'm serious. Kim Jong Un could be, and I think he is willing to be, a good leader for his country.
Could Kim Jong Un be creating a new peaceful North Korea by adapting renewable energy policy? Photos: Jukka Seppälä / Creator's Fingerprints
Well, after having said this I 've got plenty of enemies. Many people may think me being crazy.
But let me explain a little bit what I mean.
Last year, after the death of his father Kim Jong Il, Kim Jong Un was having a TV show where Disney-like characters were having a performance on the stage. At the same time as Mickey and Winnie were dancing on North Korean TV broadcast, long banned american style of food like hamburgers were officially shown to be eaten in North Korea.
LINK - HUFFINGTONPOST :
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/08/north-korea-disney-tv-mickey-mouse-winnie-pooh_n_1657168.html
I think this was kind of asking for cooperation with the western world and a sign of good will. But what was the response? I think people were laughing at this and Disney was sewing North Korea for a stolen Copyright.
And now - Kim Jong Un is threatening the US army and South Koreans with a nuclear strike having declared war and cut hot lines of early warning in case of misunderstanding.
But!
There is one very strong sign and message hidden in North Korean policy. They named Pak Pong Ju for Prime minister. And he seems to be a man of reforms in economy, supporting Chinese style of market driven socialism.
LINK - NKNEWS :
http://www.nknews.org/2013/04/north-korea-names-new-prime-minister/
LINK - NKNEWS:
http://www.nknews.org/2013/03/why-north-korea-keeps-raising-peninsula-tensions/
I think this is a clear indicator that the country will go on talks with US and South Korea in the future.
But China must not be left out of the scene.
Let me put it in this way:
Let's imagine Mexico was having a civil war in 1950ies where Northern Mexico capitalist revolutionists were receiveing support and arms from US government. The southern part of Mexico was fighting to remain the communist society they had on the whole Mexico area before the capitalist gerillas started US aided revolution. The southern Mexico communists were fighting with Chinese weapons and having Chinese army soldiers and fighter jets to help them. The parties could not achieve peace so they made a ceasefire and divided the country to North Mexico and South Mexico.
Decades passed but the country remained divided: China helped and supported the communist South Mexico and US aid was received in capitalist North Mexico. But Southern part was having more natural resources and with a massive support of China it evolved to a wealthy communist market economy. The northern part was poorer and couldn't get as much support from US government which was having budget cuts and other economical issues. But they did get some nuclear reactors and military support. And they bagan to develop their own nuclear weapons with the US government silently agreeing, though they were officially warning about the nuke program.
Every year the Chinese army participated the joint military exercise with South Mexico and sometimes North Mexico opened fire and showed their military power by sinking some South Mexican military ships with US silently agreeing in the background.
The economical situation in North Mexico being desperate and millions of people having not enough food to eat
they still were obliged to keep their dignity by investing all their resources to arms development. And the yearly military exercise of China and South Mexico is to be held once more near the US coast. This time the young leader of North Mexico is warning South Mexicans and China more eagerly than before to gain the support of his own army leaders and leading companies and capitalists and gathering enough power to make the inavoidable reforms the country is facing in the near future, to take some communist elements to their economy to get it work better.
But when he is threatening China with a nuclear strike, China sends some new stealth bombers, capable of carrying nuclear bombs, to Southern Mexico to drop dummy bombs. And after that China brings a powerful navy fleet to US-Mexican coast loaded with nuke-bombers and missiles and
threaten strike back with full force if North Mexico or its allies attack South Mexican battle forces or targets.
Well, what do you think, how would the US government act in a situatuation where Chinese nuclear battle force would be carried to the very shore of the U.S.A. ?
Can we afford ignoring China in Korean crisis?
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I hope that North Korea, the U.S..A., South Korea and China will stay calm and avoid any additional provocative acts. This may be a historical moment to restart negotiations and solve the Korean Peninsula problems. It may take decades but it is still possible. But every party in this game need now to respect each others - I mean really respect. If they fail in doing that, the game that follows will be called the
World War III. We can't afford it!
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When I wrote that
Kim Jong Un could be a good leader I really meant it. And here are some things that could make him a best man for Norh Korea:
He could:
1. Start negotiating of a full scale energy shift to renewables to make North Korea to be among the first countries in the world with 100 percent renewable energy economy. I think that Germany, Denmark and Finland could be participating this process with a great pleasure cooperating with North Korea and training their experts in developing their own industry of PV solar cells production and wind and wave energy research. We could jointly make this country a winning economy to boost also the nearby countries to make their own energy shift to safe and sustainable renewable energy. Also China and Japan could share their technology know how in such a friendly win-win project.
2. Negotiate with the U.S.A and South Korea together with China and Japan to quarantee the safety and independance of North Korea and give both the Korean peninsula countries a good possibility of ecologically sustainable economical growth and wealthy.
3. Negotiate about turning the huge military machines of both of the countries into more police-force-like safety and security institutions that could have very important role in helping their own people and government and if asked also the neighbour countries in case of nature forces cause large scale catastrophes like earthquakes,storms, tsunamis and volcanic events. And of course helping to minimize the impact of industrial accidents often combined with natural disasters.
4. Make an initiative of agricultural revolution using means of modern biological farming. No GM food but understanding the ecological processes of sustainable acriculture in Korean Peninsula area. Japan could be one of the best friends in achieving good results in agriculture.
5. Renew the law and punishment system so that no valuable human resources would be wasted in jails or camps but the people who have new ideas and different thinking could be having an important role in developing North Korea to one of the most leading countries in the world.
6. Take good things of every leading country in the world and combine them to Korean way of thinking and Korean culture. There are plenty of things to be adapted from China, Germany, Cuba, Italy, Finland, Sweden, Israel, Japan, Russia, South Korea e.t.c. and even from the U.S.A. And I'm sure that North Koreans have also lots of good things to give the world.
7. Announce the people of North Korea, the leading communist party and whole the world that North Korea is now beginning a new era - a revolution for peaceful development and cooperation of the countries in the area on win-win basis.
If he would take these kind of steps, he could be remembered as a revolutionist and a great politician and leader. If not ... ? ? ?
There are plenty of Black Swans swimming around Korean Peninsula now - let's hope we can catch all of them! Photo: Jukka Seppälä / Creator's Fingerprints
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I hope the tension will give up and a peaceful progress will follow in Asia. China must be welcomed to developing work too. We must create a chain of winners instead of confrontation. And renewables could be fueling that process.
Maybe just hopes and dreams....
JPS
