Korean Demilitarized Zone

When diplomacy fails, war steps forward. Tensions may escalate dramatically to war until diplomacy works again. Since war is another political instrument, political outcomes should be the motive for the powerful military states to wage, escalate and terminate wars. But sometimes, and despite its military power, these states struggle to reach its political outcomes due to many factors that stand in the way of achieving political outcomes smoothly. For instance, military power restrictions and…

The Korean War was an armed conflict spanning from June 1950 – July 1953 and involved two opposing sides, North Korea and South Korea. Each side was backed up by the Soviet Union and United States, respectively, and was part of the larger, long-term Cold War. The stage was set for a South Korean-U.S. victory with the allied forces pushing back the communists north of the 38th parallel and to the Yalu River in North Korea. However, victory could not be seized as the South Korean troops were met…

had less than 12 million cattle, which they can eat and use to help in the fields to pull plows and other equipment. Many countries have a different variety of foods that they make. South and North Korea are no different. According to Gary Wintz, Koreans enjoy a delicious and common side dish called Kimchi. Kimchi is a delicious and sometimes colorful assortment of fermented…

General MacArthur: A Bid For the Bomb In his speech “Farewell Address to Congress,” Douglas MacArthur, a venerated general who commanded the United Nations forces during the Korean War before he was released by President Truman on the charge of treason, argues that the use of any means necessary to stop the threat of Communism from spreading, including the use of atomic weapons on Communist China, is imperative to effectively and immediately end the war in Korea. MacArthur asserts his position…

In the chapter titled ‘See No Evil: Choosing Not to Look at the War in Vietnam’, Loewen’s main point is to look into how and why the Vietnam War has been ignored in modern day education, and how this has left our young students completely in the dark about the events of the Vietnam War. In order to this point, Loewen highlights the differences in coverage in textbooks of the Vietnam War in comparison to smaller wars, as well as how these textbooks represent or gloss over events that occurred…

Since September 11, 2001, America has changed the way we viewed certain ethnicities. Also, The United States has become more conservative with immigration, border security, and terrorism, even though terrorism has been around for many decades. I agree that we do have a social problem with terrorism today, and for many more years to come, however, if we want to understand why The United States has been a target of terrorism today and in the past, we have to analyze what The United States has been…

tourism agencies in Korea claiming that the popularity of the Hallyu phenomenon has led to dramatic increase in international tourist arrival.(S. Kim, 2012). Essentially to location and site associated with Korean TV dramas. Hallyu phenomenon, or the K-wave or also called Korean Wave, refers to Korean generated popular cultural products that includes, manga, music, games, movie TV dramas, food and fashion, that made a strong penetration in the Asian Market . (“Hallyu Wave and Tourism,” 2013)but…

being said, the Allies did agree that Japan should be forced to relinquish control over Korea and that the country should be jointly occupied by the US and USSR, with the 38th parallel serving as a temporary boundary between the Soviet and American zones of…

positively affected the United States and brought the country together in war. It is hard to argue that the country was prosperous during this time. However, looking at the late 20th century, there were plenty of people who opposed the Vietnam War and the Korean War; there was no reason to use violence against a people who served no direct threat to the United States. However, the people in power used their authority to spread violence and enforce their thinking onto those nations as a…

With the recent emerging popularity of Korean pop-culture among nations all around the globe, there has been a great increase in interest in South Korean culture outside of the realm of pop-culture. The South Korean Government, or more specifically, the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO), has been capitalizing on this interest with costly and colorful advertisements to increase travel to South Korea. One of their more recent projects is the webpage koreavisitsyou.com that features four videos as…