Corruption is the unjustified of power by an individual or individuals in s position of power or public office in one’s country. In this paper I will focus on North Korea as my country of choice for the study regarding its high level of corruption and showcase and highlight on the various actions that have led to great form of corruption like bribery. I will majorly emphasis on the abuse of power due to the within the government police within this country.
Corruption in North Korea is an extensive and rising tricky operation in the North Korean society. The country, North Korea, is ranked close to the bottom of the Transparency International's 2012 Corruption Perceptions Index. It ranked 174 out of 176 in the last year rankings, 2012. This country is characterized by stringent rules and punishments that are imposed by the regime government.
The various causes of corruption that are contributing factors to the high levels of bribery are the governmental structure of a one man monarch style of leadership that majorly promotes communism and dictatorship. The two major leaders Kim and his son who succeeded him practiced a great abuse of power that affected the private lives citizens in the country. The high and top elites in the North Korean government authority since there are no accountability reformists and committees that are put in place to protect the regular citizen.
The country is located in the Southern parts of the Asian continent probably much closer to China. The country is known for its high level of secrecy and its seclusion from the outside world and the information for the international community. This is why the private citizens, well, most of them do not have access to the outside information not until a few years back when they were allowed to access a limited and monitored amount of information.
The country, North Korea, is situated in the north section of the Korean Peninsula, which lies amid the latitudes of 37° and 43°N, and longitudes 124° and 131°E as seen from the world maps of Google maps. North Korea segments the land boundaries with Russia and China to the northern part, and borders the South Korea alongside the Korean Demilitarized Region or Zone.
The climatic condition of North Korea is known to be a continental climate with 4 different seasons. The extended wintertime convey harsh cold and a clear climate scattered with snowstorms as an outcome of northerly and northwestern airstreams that blow from Siberia. The meteorological conditions are prospective to be predominantly severe in the north, hilly areas.
The summertime inclines to be short, humid, hot, and wet since the southern monsoon breezes that carry moist air from the Pacific Ocean. Autumn and spring are intermediate time of year discernable by slight high temperature and flexible breezes that bring the most pleasant weather. The natural perils comprise the late spring famines which regularly are followed by severe flooding from heavy rains. Cyclones distress the peninsula on a regular of the slightest once every single summer.
The North Korea's weather is moderately temperate. Most of the republic is classified as type Dwa in the Köppen weather arrangement scheme, with warm midsummers and dry, cold winters. On the 7 August 2007, the utmost devastating floods in 40 years instigated the North Korean administration to ask for worldwide help. Non-governmental Organizations, such as the Red Cross, requested individuals to raise money since they dreaded a humanitarian disaster.
The North Korea shares its customary values with South Korea, but the two have advanced a distinct present-day form of culture since the peninsula was separated in the year 1945. In history, though the principles of Korea has remained prejudiced by that of the bordering China, it has yet accomplished to grow an exclusive and distinctive social uniqueness commencing its superior neighbor China.
The religion for both the North and South Koreas, share a Confucian and Buddhist tradition and a current antiquity of Cheondoism and Christian movements. The country’s constitution states that liberty of religious conviction is legitimate. Conferring to the Western values of religious conviction, the common of the North Korean populace could be regarded as non-religious. Though, the traditional effect of such outdated faiths as Confucianism and Buddhism still have an outcome on the country’s transcendent life.
The North Korean country is a self-reliant and self-described state, designated by certain witnesses as a total monarchy or hereditary dictatorship with a noticeable unfamiliar character systematized round Kim Il-sung (the forefather of the country and North Korea’s only president) and his late son, Kim Jong-il.
Numerous worldwide human rights establishments indict North Korea of having one of the poorest human rights records of any country. The Amnesty International informs of strict and severe limitations on the liberty on relationship with other countries or people within the country, movement and expression, subjective imprisonment without consultation, pain infliction and other ill-treatment resultant in death, and sometimes executions or killings.
The Global groups demand the termination of penitentiary camps, where 200,000 party-political convicts and their relatives exist in, which normally are insensitive and inhuman circumstances which are quite imaginable. The North Koreans have been mentioned to as some of the world's most ill-treated individuals by Human Rights Watch, because of the austere restraints employed on their civil and commercial liberties.
The North Korea government has a countrywide health insurance and medicinal service system which are accessible for free to their general public. In 2001 the North Korean country expended 3% of its GDP on health care. Commencement in the 1950s, the DPRK put abundant prominence on healthcare, and amid the years 1955 and 1986, the amount of clinics increased from 1,020 to 5,644 while the infirmaries grew from 285 to 2,401. Notably there are hospices devoted to mines and factories. Subsequently during the year 1979 more importance has been put on old-fashioned Korean medication or form of treatment, grounded on handling using acupuncture and herbs.
Additionally, the North Korea's healthcare organization has been in a sharp deterioration ever since the 1990s since the effect of natural calamities, monetary, financial and economic problems, and not forgetting the energy and food shortages. This was highlighted in the year 2001, numerous clinics and hospitals in North Korea did not have the needed drugs, apparatus, successively running water and power. This goes as well to the level and rate of employment, which has deteriorated over time.
The US has very little corporation with this country given the tension between them. As a consequential outcome, the North Korean nuclear weapons program, there was a six-party talks established to try and find a diplomatic resolution to the mounting tension between the two Korean administrations (South and North), the People's Republic of China, the Russian Federation, Japan, and the United States.
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