Us Vs South Korea Essay

At the end of world war two for the first time in 35 years Korea was free of Japanese occupation. Due to the agreements that the Soviet Union signed with America to join the pacific war against Japan the Soviet army stopped at the 38th parallel and the country was split into two, the Soviet Union controlled the North and the Americans controlled the south.

With the fall of Fascism and the rise of communism across Europe, the United States and the USSR both strived to prove the superiority of their government systems, this resulted in the formation of two starkly different governments in the now divided Korea. This produced rising tensions along the 38th parallel as uprisings against the southern government, while the united state continued to strive for elections to take place for a united Korea under the supervision of the United …show more content…
As the stalemate continued the negotiations between the communist forces and the southern forces continued to prove futile with continued attacks and rejections of land proposals put forth by the Southern government, until the 19th of july 1953 when an agreement for an armistice between the UN and the Communists was achieved and the Korean Demilitarized zone (KDZ) was formed.

Although regarded by the united nations as a success, the public opinion of whether the united nations brought peace to the region is highly questioned. The war never truly ended, instead only an armistice agreement was signed resulting in the two countries still locked in conflict and a generalised opinion has formed that the united nations failed in the task proposed in resolution 83 to “restore international peace and security to the