We need to Unite with North Korea

Hello everyone! My name Jisue Kang and I am in class 22. Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to talk about a subject that is sensitive especially now a days, because of the recent Bombardment of Yeonpyong, and the Cheonan ship sinking. You can guess what my topic is right? It is about how we need to unite with North Korea. I will tell you 2 reasons about why I think this, and also add what we could do to take little steps in order to have this happen. So let’s get started.



My first reason is because we are all one nation. All one people, all one country! We divided when Russia and America made the Korean Occupation Agreement without Korea's permission. This divided our thoughts between the 38˚ line. Afterwards we ended up in the Korean War in 1950. Since then our country has advanced a lot in economy. On the other hand, the North is still struggling and living in poor conditions. Because we are one country, we need to unite and help the North so we can become even stronger. We also need to help them not only for economic development, but also to help the families that have been separated. Every year, the families that never met, will never get the chance to meet again. Yes, they are disappearing. Why? Because it has been too long since our country divided. So I feel that it is crucial for our and the North's sake, for us to get these families together while some of them are still alive.


My second reason is because we need to rid the image of war between us from the world. Every time North Korea attacks us, the world quakes in fear that we might start a war again. When the Cheonan ship sank, our country's boat stocks went down. I know that we cannot just stand and take the attacks, we must do something. I agree. They shouldn't attack us for any reason. So that is why we should make a better impression to North Korea so that they will not attack us and in fact, work with us. On the other hand, sometimes people in our country fear North Koreans or even hate them because of this. (And personally I understand them too.) Now this leads me to telling you about how we can take baby steps to our unification.


Ladies and gentlemen, many people get the idea that North Koreans are violent and do not like them. We need to fix these ideas and make this right. The north is one of us. They are a part of our history, our country, our blood. The teachers of our nation should teach students countrywide that North Koreans are not bad people and we shouldn't judge them in this way. Yes, we might have had a bad past with them but we should - no we need to go past this and make a better reputation of North Korea. That way our people would have interest in helping the North, and in uniting once again.


Also, I learned that we are working at this very hard, but I would like to emphasize the donations or things we do for North Korea. Our country has done the "rice of love" campaign, and has found some of the separated families, and have had them meet at least once before they - well let's say, pass. Plus, I would like to add that I think we were doing a good job at trying to get also with North Korea. I mean things like our presidents meeting, or like before at one of the Olympics, Korea itself came out together for the opening ceremony.


Another way for us to work with the North is to help them progress in their country. We give them a little rice, build a few schools every now and then, and then when we unite, it would be a much easier job to get people to move there, and catch up on the economy. If we did this, then it would be much easier to put our powers together and make a strong nation rather than after we become one, then we have to make new buildings and get people to move there, find the lost and separated families. That would be a disaster. So let’s start now.

To conclude, I want to firmly state what I want to say. I say that we need to unite with North Korea. I said 2 reasons to prove this: the first is because we are one nation; the second is because we need to erase the thoughts that we will have a war from the world. Finally I talked about what we can do to make the unification happen. I hope together, we can make this dream come true. Thank you for listening!