North Korea Memo

320 Washington St. 
Easton, MA 02357 

                                                                                                                                 30 March 2017 

From Elif Okan 

To: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson 

Thru: The Department of State 

Subject: Improving North Korea's human right problem 

Reply to: Elif Okan Attn of: Okan 

1. Our current foreign policy with North Korea needs to change. Currently there are too many human right problems in North Korea that no one is trying to stop. We need to change this to help the citizens in North Korea to improve their conditions. Our main focus should be on getting rid of the concentration camps and making it so the citizens living in North Korea have access to information from the outside world. 

Issues With Previous Foreign Policy Strategies 

2. While the United States did intend to improve and promote human rights in North Korea with the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004, not much have changed since then. The act aimed to provide humanitarian assistance to North Koreans both in North Korea and the ones that fled North Korea and tried to increasing the availability of information inside North Korea among other things. 

1. While the act itself had good intendants, it did not help as much as it could have and should have enforced more strongly to improve North Korea over a prolonged period of time. 

1. While initially provided $4 million to promote human rights, there was a decrease to $2 million in 2008 when the 2004 act was extended. There must not be a decrease in the amount of money we were giving since the citizens of North Korea themselves do need help and it is like quitting. 

A New Strategy 

3. The United States is one of the most powerful countries in the world, but should not take control of fixing North Korea. Rather, we should get the help of other groups like the United Nations and work on the solution together. With this we could get better results and come up with different ideas that may be better than anything the United States would come up with alone. 

4. While there is a lot of different parts about North Korea that we could try to fix, the most important issues are currently the concentration camps in which anyone can get sent to and killed without a good reason, and the lack of information about the outside world available to the North Korean public.  

1. While we could send in military to North Korea to take over and then get rid of all the concentration camps, this would not be a good idea since North Korea still have the possibility to use their nuclear bomb if we did this and it is not worth the risk. Instead of the military, the United States and other countries should first try to improve our relations with North Korea so they do not hate us and the rest of the world so much. 

1. o improve our relations instead of just sending in aid and food, we must use diplomatic means. For example, creating a friendlier relationship through social interaction, like when the U.S. sent in the basketball team to North Korea or ping pong diplomacy.  

1. After the U.S. improves its relationship with North Korea, the U.S. would engage in a diplomatic discussion to convince Kim Jong-un to give the North Koreans access to outside information without prosecution 

1. Since this is unlikely to happen, the United States can try to secretly give North Koreans access to outside information and try to make sure they are not prosecuted for this. This would be hard to do but can be done. 

1. It is unlikely Kim Jong-un would willingly get rid of the concentration camps but the United States can do try to secretly get of the concentration camps when we are have good relations and are close enough with North Korea. We may need to lose military as a last resort. 

2. If we improve our relationship, North Korea may be willing to sign a peace treaty or make an agreement with us for these two problems 

Challenges 

5. Other countries or the United Nations may not be willing to help us improve North Korea in which case we would be on our own again.  6. We could try our best but still unable to improve our relationship with North Korea 7. We may have to use military to get rid of the concentration camps and making it so the citizens living in North Korea have access to information from the outside world which could end badly for us and the rest of the world.  

1. North Korea could us their nuclear bombs if this happened.  

Why A New Foreign Policy Strategy is Needed 

8. Our current one does not work and the North Koreans need help  
9. if we do nothing then nothing in North Korea will ever change 
10.  Thank you for your time and consideration on this matter.