North Korea's rocket launch failed and reports say, the national pride was shattered. North Koreans pride themselves for developing a rocket program all by themselves, of course, studying some country's technologies and infusing their own. This country has been affected by decades-old economic sanctions and it continues to survive mainly due to the will of its people and the political tenacity of its government.
Western media have depicted North Korea as an economically struggling country but no signs of massive numbers of North Koreans defecting or thousands or millions of Koreans going to the streets and militating against their government. Western media have pictured a North Korea suffering from famine, yet no North Korean ever went out of their settlements to show the world how pitiful their sufferings are. Of course, major powers want North Korea for themselves, and a country that stands proud of its accomplishments is being perceived as rogue simply because it asserts its independence amidst a world full of slaves and slavish powers.
It is time for the world to reexamine its terms and closely reconsider the meaning of the terms "rogue state". Is a rogue state such when it stands against the interests of principal powers? Is a state considered rogue even if it does not use its military might to oppress nations and only uses it to defend itself against attempts of predation?
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