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The current state of North Korea is an unstable dictatorship threatening the globe with nuclear attacks. The People’s Republic of Korea, or better known as North Korea, is an authoritarian, dictatorship where all power and “knowledge” hails from Kim Jong-Un. Currently North Korea is in a loose partnership with two of the world’s powerhouses, Russia and China. Russia and China can both contribute and aid North Korea if they were to release Nuclear weapons or threaten another war. Because of this…

Compare and Contrast North and South Korea Korea is currently the world’s only divided country despite several countries were reunified at the end of WWII. After WWII in 1945, Korea was divided into North and South at the boundary 38th Parallel. The North and South Korea are officially named the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea respectively. Tensions and conflicts between two countries keeps on growing as North Korea is continuously threatening the world by testing…

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 and ambushed…

Melvin Louis Brown was born February 2, 1931 in the small northeastern borough of Mahaffey, Pennsylvania. Melvin was born to Edward and Rhonda Brown, and was one of their ten children. Melvin was the second youngest of four boys, with six sisters of varying ages, one of which, Martha, who died at a very young age. As a boy growing up in Mahaffey his hobbies were typical of what one might expect from someone growing up in a town with a population of less than 700. Melvin was a lover of all…

you will regard this suggestion as worthy of your attention, and that you will take into consideration some of these ideas regarding the potential upcoming summit with North Korea. In my vast research regarding North Korea, I have discovered a pattern of what I like to call “Strategic Isolationist Brinkmanship”: a policy where North Korea frequently extends a fake olive branch in order to invite potential talks of peace, and then shortly afterwards retracts it and returns to their sadistic and…

On January 6, an earthquake was detected near a North Korean nuclear testing facility. Kim Jong Un later claimed that this was due to the testing of North Korea’s first hydrogen bomb, which would be a very large step forward in their weapons development. News stories such as this have been dominating the media over the past few decades, with events such as this occurring seemingly every other month. North Korea, and its somewhat crazy lineage of leaders from the Kim family, has been a large…

The Korean Peninsula is known for its never-ending battle between the communist-ruled North Korea and its democratic ruled South Korea. During the year of 1910, Japan defeated the Yi dynasty and gained total control of the Korean peninsula in order to expand its empire (Salter 52). As part of an assimilation policy, Japan required Koreans to adopt Japanese style surnames, worship at Shinto shrines and learn the Japanese language. Koreans could also volunteer in the Japanese army to which they…

Nationalists retreated to Taiwan. Only four years prior, the Allied victory over Japan saw a dual American-Soviet occupation of the Korean Peninsula, leading to the North-South divide along the 38th parallel and the establishment of two separate Korean states. The character of the respective states reflected the influence…

The Justice of Intervening in North Korea The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, commonly known as North Korea to the United States, has effectively existed as a hermit kingdom since the end of the Korean War in 1953. A cease-fire was signed and the DMZ of the 38th parallel became the tentative boundary dividing the North from the South. South Korea has enjoyed economic prosperity and liberal democracy in the past several decades, but the North Korean government exercises strict…

North Korea North Korea, a rogue state, continues to play an important role in the US’s geopolitical realm simply due to its location and proximity to China. The Korean Peninsula provides a natural barrier between Japan and the US, and China which makes North Korea key in ensuring China remains inaccessible to the US via the peninsula. However, North Korea continues its pursuit of its nuclear program and the continued hostilities towards South Korea and Japan. This coupled with their inhumane…