Caeley McClain

Sara Price
Model United
2 December, 2015
Syria
Although Syria signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty, to them power is
unbalanced and spread equally.
Whats North Korea doing to make themselves all over the media and news?
North Korea has gotten a hold of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Energy. Nuclear energy helps
North Korea with their lack of mineral resources, Nuclear energy helps get them electricity. On
the other hand North Korea isnt using nuclear weapons to help them, but to get power. Right
now North Korea doesnt have the technology to bomb further than Japan and South Korea. The
article, It's Not a Hermit Kingdom, and 4 Other Myths about North Korea brought to my
attention what other plans they have with the nuclear weapons, There is also a danger that North
Korea may export nuclear technology to other rogue states, like terrorist groups.(Wit and
Town1) If North Korea has nuclear weapons they could spread them to the people that cause the
most destruction and damage in our world. So should we or shouldnt we try and take away
North Koreas Nuclear weapons, but not their nuclear energy?
Every country has an interesting viewpoint on North Korea and nuclear weapons, but
Syria has one of the most interesting perspectives. In 1968 Syria signed the Nuclear NonProliferation treaty and around that same time agreed to the Nuclear Safeguards Agreement
(Kumakura). Syria believed that we should try and prevent the spreading of nuclear weapons and
agreed to have someone come check and make sure they werent using an nuclear weapons. This

slowly started to change in 2000s. In 2007 there was a time in history called Operation Orchard,
which involved Israel and Syria, According to two sources Syria was caught with a nuclear
reactor. When Israel found out they bombed the nuclear reactor because the U.S wouldnt do
anything. They then found out later that North Korea had been the one helping Syria build a
nuclear reactor. After Operation Orchard Western press reported Syria had received a cargo ship
from North Korea and there was a lot of suspension of it having to do with nuclear weapon
programs (Kumakura and Syria). If Syria is getting help from North Korea to build a nuclear
reactor, why would Syria be against North Korea having nuclear weapons. Syria wants power
and they will do anything to get that power, even use nuclear weapons they get from North
Korea. Syrian perspective is that North Korea should be able to have nuclear weapons and keep
allowing them to have nuclear weapons.
As part of the UN we should try and make North Korea feel more welcomed in the world
and have equal power. The UN has put many sanctions in North Korea and resolutions in place.
The resolutions make it easier for the UN to put sanctions on North Korea and most every year
since 2006 there has been a sanction put on North Korea. Every once in awhile they veto or take
out the sanction, but still how would you feel if you were getting a sanction put against you for
the past 9 years(Elizabeth). We should stop putting sanctions on them to prevent nuclear weapon
and try to get North Korea to understand the effects of what nuclear weapons can do and who we
should give them to that would use them for a good benefit. We should make North Korea
internationally respected and welcomed by most countries and not make them feel like they have
a target on their back just because of their Nuclear weapons. One thing we could do is make
them feel want to be a part of the UN. If they joined the UN they could feel more accepted and
that they have power. All in all, Syria believes that North Korea should have the right to have

nuclear weapons and instead of trying to shut them down, make them worldly respected to give
them more power because Syria has gotten help from North Korea before and wont mind still
getting there help with earning power by using nuclear weapons.

Work Cited
Cordesman, Anthony. Web: Www.csis.org/burke The Israeli Nuclear Reactor Strike and
Syrian Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Background Analysis (n.d.): n. pag. Cordesman:
Reactor Strike And Syrian Wmd. 24 Nov. 2007. Web. 3 Dec. 2015.

Joel S. Wit and Jenny Town. "It's Not a Hermit Kingdom, and 4 Other Myths About North
Korea." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, 29 Mar. 2013. Web. 03 Dec. 2015.

Philipp, Elizabeth. "Fact Sheets & Briefs." UN Security Council Resolutions on North
Korea. N.p., 14 Mar. 2013. Web. 03 Dec. 2015

Tak Kumakura - April 27, 2008 18:48 EDT. "North Koreans May Have Died in Israel Attack on
Syria, NHK Says." Bloomberg.com. Bloomberg, 27 Apr. 2008. Web. 03 Dec. 2015.