Pulcheria Chung, 18 St Mary's Canossian College
The system in which certain countries have veto power in the UN is full of flaws.
It is unfair that some countries dominate the decision-making process of the world's most important organisation. It makes agreement on critical issues difficult and this could lead to tragic consequences for the whole world.
If the UN were to grant veto power to a country, that country should be highly qualified for that honour, with a clean history.
Japan's war-time atrocities are still fresh in people's minds, such as the Nanjing massacre in which more than 300,000 innocent Chinese civilians were brutally murdered by the invading Imperial Army.
Since the Japanese have yet to issue a proper apology, we assume that they don't feel any remorse about their past misdeeds.
Moreover, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visits to the Yasukuni shrine to pay homage to the country's war dead shows that Japan still has a military mentality.