Peacekeeping+N.+Korea

Chris H. Period 0

//**PEACEKEEPING**//
__**Background:**__ Peacekeeping in the UN is defined as maintaining order in countries and a way to resolve conflicts between different countries. the job of a peace keeper includes aiding reconstruction, monitoring the withdrawal of combatants of war from previous areas of war, and supervising elections. The goal of peacekeeping is to maintain a situation so that a country can establish a peaceful country without war. Although peace keeping is done for the better of countries, problems with peace keeping still rise to this day. For the last year, the UN has used over 5 billion U.S. dollars to fund peacekeeping around the world. countries still criticize peace keepers, and barriers still occur about whether peacekeeping is hypocritical to the point of increasing international power. Even though peacekeeping is done for a positive influence, it can still harm more than help.

__**UN Involvement:**__ In all, a total of 63 peacekeeping missions have been carried out from 1958 to this day. Peacekeeping has changed drastically over the years, and the UN has developed ways to encounter the problem. During the Cold War, the UN encountered peacekeeping problems by maintaining ceasefires and stabilizing conflicts on ground in order to resolve political problems easily. Nowadays, the UN builds sustainable governments, monitors human rights, and secures sectors to secure disarmaments in countries. As of today, there are peacekeeping missions in Africa, the Americas, Asia and the pacific, and the Middle East. Many of these peacekeeping missions are not improving the countries, like Congo.

__**Country Policy and Involvement:**__ During World War II, North Korea was one of the main peacekeeping missions the UN was interested in, because they were at war with Japan. As of now, North Korea is still a one man dictatorship and had recently broken off of South Korea, to form its own country. Currently, North Korea is still involved in the UN. Apparently Korea is about to begin constructing a peacekeeping unit to participate in increased UN peacekeeping requirements in the future. In addition, Korea has been asked by the United Kingdom to ally with them in their peacekeeping mission concerning Africa.

__**Solutions:**__ North Korea has currently been looking into the peacekeeping problems and has tried to find out ways to resolve these conflicts. First of all, Korea has decided to begin a Universal treaty, which unifies all countries over one rule: not to start war with one another. This will help to keep peace in countries because war will vanish and there will no longer be sudden outbreaks of chaos, for instance World War II. Lastly, Korea also has the idea of making all countries have a secure republic. Unfortunately, North Korea must still have to transform their government from a one man dictatorship into a republic.

//ISRAEL & PALESTINE//
__**Background:**__ The Israel and Palestine war has been raging on for more than 50 years, and started being a problem at the end of World War I. It is a violent war for land, and for the most part, the holy city of Jerusalem. Jews and Palestinians both want Jerusalem, because it traces back to religion, and who should inherit Abraham's land. Palestinians often retaliate against the Jews, and there are even suicide bombings being planned and performed. In addition, the Palestinians have recently been enraged with the facts that when Jerusalem was made a country, the Jews had pushed them out of their homeland, and now live in shantis and poor countries, while the Jews prosper. In 1993, the Israeli prime minister and Palestinian prime minister had ordered a peace treaty, promising peace after long years of war. The Declaration of Principles was signed and henceforth, peace would soon be in order. Unfortunately, the Palestinian prime minister was assassinated, and the 5 year interim that had been assigned was no longer applied.

__**UN Involvement:**__ Over the years, the UN has made several attempts to provide safety for Palestinian refugees. The UN has tried many things, such as provide refugee camps in the Middle East, where more than half of the refugees currently dwell. The camps are often overcrowded and full of poverty. In addition, the UN has created the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees). What UNRWA does is they attempt to try and find better areas for Palestinian refugees to live, and track the number of refugees that still exist.

__**Country Policy:**__ North Korea is currently a communist country, and is not involved with the Israel and Palestinian war. Even though North Korea has not been involved with the Israeli and Palestinian war, they would like to stop it, for it is been raging on for over 50 years, and should be ended immediately. North Korea will be glad to help end this war soon.

__**Solutions****:**__ North Korea believes that if all countries surrounding Israel would have to sign a peace treaty, guaranteeing that war will stop after a certain date. We will do this by slowly ending the selling of arms to all Palestinians and Israelis. As the war stops, the fight over Jerusalem will be addressed by the prime minister of Palestine and Israel. This will then be solved through a truce, where both Israel and Palestine share the holy city of Jerusalem.