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Terrorism in North Korea
Sabrina Nemecek
CJA 446: Terrorism and Extremism
Professor Latasha Wells Amerson
California State University Dominguez Hills
May 1, 2014

Terrorism in North Korea
Terrorism can be defined as a premeditated and unlawful act in which groups or agents of some principal engage in a threatened or actual use of force or violence against human or property targets. (Martin, 2003) This is just one definition as there can be more than 100 different definitions and many countries experience different kinds of terrorism. One country that experiences terrorism as well as extremism on a daily basis is North Korea. Extremism ties in with terrorism and is defined as the political opinions that are intolerant toward opposing interests and divergent opinions and forms the ideological foundation for political violence. (Martin, 2003) North Korea is not only participating in their own state patronage of terrorism, which is directly being linked to any terrorist activity as well as behavior, but also in international terrorism as well.
International terrorism is defined as terrorism that is directed against targets symbolizing international interests and attacks can occur against either domestic targets that have international symbolism as well as those dwelling in international areas. (Martin, 2003) An example of this would be the unlawful imprisonment of U.S. citizen Kenneth Bae, who was a devout Christian as well as the owner of a North Korea tour company with official permission to be in the country. On April 30, 2013, Bae was tried and found guilty for “hostile acts” against the state and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. There has been no evidence found of any “hostile acts,” only of the compassi...

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... clearly had a hidden agenda as to why they wanted these specific people to be back in North Korea. The terrorism in North Korea correlates with this course because while the terrorism may be apparent there, our government could also be hiding many important things from us, the U.S. citizens as well and we may not ever know it. For example, our government has the capabilities of tracking our every move through our electronic devices how do we know for sure that they are not using it for other means, such as “detour intrusion?”
While knowing how powerful other terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah are and knowing that they have been known to help them in the past, it is fair to suspect that terrorism in North Korea and the tyrannical state that it is in is not going to vanish anytime soon and the situation is only going to get worse before it gets better.

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