North Korea can be seen as a child. They have a small nuclear stockpile, and are trying to show its power by testing missiles, then making claims of having powerful weapons, and suddenly, when North Korea doesn’t get their way, Kim Jong-un starts making threats of nuclear war. Now is the time for the United Nations to step in and do something.
Korea was originally a part of the Japanese Empire. In November 1943, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek met at the Cairo Conference to discuss what should happen to Japan’s colonies, and agreed that Japan should lose all territories it had conquered by force. After WWII, Korea was given to the US and the Soviet Union. September 1945, Korea was divided at the 38th parallel, a communist …show more content…
the agreement allowed POWs to live wherever they want; drew a new boundary near the 38th parallel, giving South Korea an extra 1,500 square miles of territory; and created a 2-mile wide demilitarized zone (DMZ) Nearly 5-million people died, more than half of these-about 10 percent of Korea’s pre-war population-were civilians. Almost 40,000 Americans died, more than 100,000 were wounded. Even though an armistice was signed, there was no official peace treaty; technically the Korean War hasn’t ended. Soldiers on both sides patrol the DMZ, and there are constant problems and skirmishes on the DMZ. At any moment, North Korea could launch a nuclear warhead on South Korea. The UN needs to step in and put sanctions on North Korea and enforce them to keep North Korea from building more nuclear weapons.
The North Korean government is not in the best shape. Kim Jong-un is executing people because they don’t agree with him-or he doesn’t find them agreeable enough-and their families, claiming ‘plucking up evil by the roots’ as the best way to deal with dissent, and insulting North Korea’s
Korea was originally a part of the Japanese Empire. In November 1943, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek met at the Cairo Conference to discuss what should happen to Japan’s colonies, and agreed that Japan should lose all territories it had conquered by force. After WWII, Korea was given to the US and the Soviet Union. September 1945, Korea was divided at the 38th parallel, a communist …show more content…
the agreement allowed POWs to live wherever they want; drew a new boundary near the 38th parallel, giving South Korea an extra 1,500 square miles of territory; and created a 2-mile wide demilitarized zone (DMZ) Nearly 5-million people died, more than half of these-about 10 percent of Korea’s pre-war population-were civilians. Almost 40,000 Americans died, more than 100,000 were wounded. Even though an armistice was signed, there was no official peace treaty; technically the Korean War hasn’t ended. Soldiers on both sides patrol the DMZ, and there are constant problems and skirmishes on the DMZ. At any moment, North Korea could launch a nuclear warhead on South Korea. The UN needs to step in and put sanctions on North Korea and enforce them to keep North Korea from building more nuclear weapons.
The North Korean government is not in the best shape. Kim Jong-un is executing people because they don’t agree with him-or he doesn’t find them agreeable enough-and their families, claiming ‘plucking up evil by the roots’ as the best way to deal with dissent, and insulting North Korea’s