Isolationism In North Korea Essay

Nationalism, the act of feelinging belonging to one’s country or a group. In this source it shows a type nationalism called isolationism, when it indicates that every country should be able to make its own decisions and should be unrestricted by other countries. The nationalist perspective of isolationism should not be embraced by countries because it would affect the prosperity of a nation. In history isolationism is demonstrated when Cuba was forcibly isolated in the 1990’s after the fail of the USSR and the end of the cold war and all trade between them and other countries stopped abruptly. In recent times, it is demonstrated in North Korea, where the people have little contact with the outside world, mostly because of their leader, and lack access to basic human rights and fundamental freedoms. These both are harmful to the original country and most of the time to …show more content…
The people of the country suffering because of little to none basic human rights and no one to help because they have been pushed away from the outside world. With rumors of nukes and a lot of what is hoped to be misunderstood, the country's decision to become a isolationist nation, not only is a huge deficit on them, but on the rest of the world as well. The fact that the country is isolating their decisions from the rest of the world, worries other nations to the point, where they might attack, in the fear of being attacked themselves. By having good relationships with other countries and being able to know what the countries motives are and what they are doing, is another step in preventing war and being able to strive for and keep peace. When a country becomes isolationists, the communications between that countries and other’s stop. In a country like North Korea, that shows potential threat, it creates unneeded wars and