North And South Korea's Absurdist Armagation

On August 8, 1945, the world would hear major event about a country. On that day, it was not good for the country of Korea. Many people ask why this is a bad event in Korea. On that day, the unthinkable happened; Korea split. The country would soon be called North and South Korea. The wall built, the demilitarized zone or the DMZ, would not cause war yet. Since Korea forged the DMZ to separate the countries to prevent war, it put each country in a neutral state. The DMZ placed both countries in the possibility of having war and people are petrified by the DMZ.
Introduction to Korea
These countries lie on the Korean peninsula. The capital of North Korea is Pyongyang. South Korea’s capital is Seoul. “North and South Korea 's Absurdist Armagation” author is Jeff Stein. To paraphrase Stein, our President Clinton talks about how the DMZ is a very dangerous place (Stein 1). . There are soldiers armed and ready to defend if something poses a threat. Another author who supports this is Klaus Dodds. So it makes it dangerous. Dodds wrote “Korean Peninsula” and Dodds said, “Korean Peninsula in a sentence it is often accompanied by words such as crisis, instability, border and tension.” …show more content…
As said before, many people did not know what was going to happen on that day. When the day came, something big was going to happen and that problem was that families on opposite sides. They could not visit them because of the DMZ. The article “Inside North Korea” is an example. The restate article, the separation of the country brought family separation (Inside North Korea 4). Many families were separated and could not visit. In fact, many people started to blame the US. Guo, who was mentioned before talked about this too. To paraphrase Guo, the Pentagon was hoping that North Korea would not want to do something terrible to us (Guo 6). The U.S. was hoping that Korea would not get mad at us. They were mad, but did not go into