Kim Il-sung

Joseph Stalin was born on December 18,1878, he was born into a poor family and was an only child. His father was a shoemaker, an his mom was a laundress. As a young child he contracted smallpox, which left him with many facial scars.When Stalin was in his teens he got a scholarship to a seminary in a city called Tblisi to study priesthood, in the Georgian Orthodox Church. In his free time there he secretly started reading the Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx. He shortly got expelled for not…

The Korean War was the first military action of the Cold War. The war was initiated when Kim Il-sung commenced a surprise attack on South Korea. The reason for the attack was because Kim assumed the South would willingly undergo his dictatorship. Approximately 75,000 North Korean People's Army (NKPA) soldiers attacked South Korea dawn of June 25, 1950. In as little as three days, the communist forces captured the South Korean capital and occupied most of the country. This invasion may have been…

Alliance systems have long been a theory on the cause of war, or an explanation for action taken both before and during wars. The theory proposes that alliances cause war in a few different ways, mainly through creating a security dilemma, and creating the opportunity for buck-passing and entrapment. These are the main ways in which an alliance can increase the likelihood of war. Throughout this portion of the essay I will begin by explaining the prevalence of alliances in the post-World War…

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 topic of discussion ever since…

his family, millionaires, CEOs of large corporations, and most people who are known as “rich”. In North Korea, the core class is made up of “farm workers, families of soldiers killed during the Korean War, families of troops who had served with Kim Il Sung fighting against Japanese occupation, and government workers.” They could get jobs in the government, officer rankings in the military, and the intelligence services. The core class was allowed to live in and around Pyongyang, which showed a…

almost, “one million North Koreans fled to the south” (CITE). The leader of North Korea, Kim Il Sung, proposed the idea of invading the South to Stalin. At first, Stalin rejected this scheme since the United States was by far superior when it game to nuclear capability. Once the Soviet Union exploded their first atomic bomb, Stalin gave Kim permission to invade South Korea. With the approval of the Soviet Union, Kim invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950. After this surprise attack, the United…

Korea to reclaim the Korean Peninsula (Hallowell 340). The US influence South Korea to become democratic, lead by anti-communist dictator Syngman Rhee. While the Soviet Union influence North Korea to become communist, lead by communist dictator Kim Il-Sung (Hallowell 1). Which eventually creates conflict between the North and South (Michaels 1). The surrender of Japan caused…

paper will overview what the Korean War was and why it happened, and why it was important to the world today. In August 1945, the USSR and United States divided the ex-Japanese colonie of Korea along the 38th parallel. The Soviet Union appointed Kim Il-sung, a guerilla leader from Pyongyang Korea, to lead the Northern part of the country, while the United States made Syngman Rhee, an anti-communist leader, the leader of the American-supported south. The two dictators often fought to control…

Joseph Stalin was a violent and cruel leader that led the Soviet Union into World War II and dictated Russia for many years. Many people considered Joseph Stalin as a tyrant because of the gruesome actions he did for the Soviet Union in order to win wars and battles. Despite his horrific contributions to his army, he guided the Soviet Union through wars with tedious tactics and battle strategies. First, Joseph Stalin’s early life was brutal. Many people suggest that it was his childhood…

is mesmerised by a young girl coming out from a church. The girl’s name is Jung Mi-ju (Park Si-yeon) and she attends the same school as Chae In-ho. After Chae In-ho helps Jung Mi-ju by stopping her teasing by their classmate named Nol-Bu (Lim Hyun-sung), who later becomes his best friend, she invites him to her birthday party held at her home. Unfortunately, when he arrives at her home, he finds a hectic situation with people grasping every single item in the…