Korean Air

1. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) also known as North Korea is a communist country that is still in a state of war with the United States. This background paper outlines DPRK’s economics and resources, politics and social relations and US interests in the country. 2. North Korea is notable for its lack of a stable economy. The government causes economic duress to its citizens by punishing market activities.3 Citizens who want to partake in market activities are required to…

dictatorship. Here is a bit of background on North Korea. After the Korean War Korea split into two different parts North Korea and South Korea. North Korea was founded by Kim Jong Sun ever since then it has been a dictatorship. The current leader of North Korea is Kim Jon Un he has executed his uncle and used government money to spend it on ridiculous luxuries. In North Korea there Is a slave labor camp that many North Koreans that disagree with Kim Jon Un or his followers go to. If you look…

“North Korean guerrillas penetrated the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone), so from now on we are declaring the highest level of emergency situation. This is a real situation.” On sunny winter day 2010, we, the South Korean soldiers, got an alert from the superior military office that about three armed soldiers from North Korea had penetrated through the 38th parallel and will soon pass the place where I was. Our captain declared a state of emergency because of the North Korean guerrilla attacks. We got…

North and South. In 1950 the Korean Peninsula was the center of dispute between the Soviet Union and the U.S. The Russians occupied northern Korea and the Americans occupied the south. This was not simply a border conflict but instead something much larger. The U.S. feared it was a communist campaign to take control of the globe. For this reason, the country sent in troops to ensure that the opposition would not have the ability to rule over Korea as a whole. The Korean war started out with the…

I stand outside of the airport, phone to my ear. My foot taps rapidly as the phone continues to ring. If this boy doesn’t answer his phone in the next minute, he's going to be missing a limb. Just as the thoughts of me using a butcher knife for the first time runs through my head, his voice projects from the speaker. "Lex," He breaths out. He sounds like he just ran a marathon. "You're lucky you answered. I was just thinking about separating your head from the rest of body." I begin…

The Struggle of The 1970s The 1970s was a time for major change worldwide. Many people did not want to take responsibility nor credit for the current economic crisis. Along with the struggling economy around the world, Senator Joseph McCarthy and President Harry S. Truman were sending letters and telegrams back and forth to each other about the situation of communists, and the spreading of communism. People during the 1970s needed to adapt to the changing economic situation, based on what was…

nuclear programs. The problems that arise with the implementations of the North Korean nuclear programs are the potential impacts they would have on world peace and stability, with the Asian allies being the most at risk. The United States, therefore, has a role to play in ensuring that the nuclear programs are not utilized to harm other countries by ensuring that contingency plans are in place. Background on the North Korean nuclear programs There were nuclear programs negotiations between the…

The Vietnam War happened from 1954 until 1975. It was a long, bloody and costly conflict between North Vietnam and its southern allies, Viet Cong, and the South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States to combat communist forces. However, United States didn’t participate in the war from the beginning. Ball considered that United States involvement in the Vietnam War would be unsuccessful, firstly because United States didn’t have the right equipment that could compete with the…

is North Korea. However, they live in a constant fear. In 2003, when North Korea broke away from the N.P treaty, it made South Koreans fearful. South Korea being one of North Korea’s major enemies the people must respect the North Korean’s power. “In South Korea, the government built the bomb shelter in 2011, pledging it could withstand most direct hits from North Korean artillery fire. The windowless room holds 100 people, and is temperature controlled and ventilated thanks to a generator. The…

Journal: The Vietnam War What I Knew from the beginning before we had the group discussion is that in the Vietnam War was a fight between the USSR and the Americans in the country of Vietnam. And the result of the war is that the Americans lost. And during the discussion, I learned that in 1963 through 1972 there was a spread of communism. And this resulted in a Truman Doctrine Plan, which is the containment that Truman used to keep the communism from spreading throughout the world. On the…