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the peninsula. Mountains cover seventy percent of the Korean Peninsula, with small, arable plains widely scattered far in between the successive mountain ranges (New World Encyclopedia). North Korea have an advantage over the United States army because North Korea 's troops are familiar with the area. The American troops will not only have to adjust to the land they would also have to adjust to the various climate changes. The climate of the Korean Peninsula differs dramatically from north to…

citizens is brought to life. This paper will analyze how the regime affected certain families through its repressive policies and then compare those same situations to a democratic government. In 1958, Kim Il-sung ordered the classification of the North Korean people into about fifty distinct groups. These groups were divided into three broad classes. The Core, wavering, and hostile. The Core class would consist of Kim Il-sung, his family, and high ranking party members. The wavering class…

attain a similar empire to the Soviet Union, the Communist Chinese Republic required a great deal of foreign aid. Therefore, in order to support the expansion of communism, the Soviet Union provided funds to the Chinese Republic. Similarly, during the Korean War, China and Korea faced the newly instituted United Nations. However, through…

countries affected the nature of the Korean War ”. In order to understand how the foreign involvement affected the characteristics of the Korean War it´s important to comprehend the origins and causes of the Korean War, background research has been made in order to familiarize with the topic and gain a general idea of the topic. For example, the actions taken by Syngman Rhee of boasting about attacking North Korea, was a contributing factor which led the North Koreans to attack South Korea in…

South Korea Nowadays, to get a good job in South Korea, education background is one of the most important factors on young students’ career. All the certification and diploma from a well-known university is a strong competitiveness in Korean society. Me as Korean student I came to America to graduate university in here because I could not be admitted to a university in Seoul, South Korea. In my country, it is hard to get a job if people did not graduate famed university in Seoul, so parents…

My perspective of South Korea changed since I was able to realize how developed of a country it was, as I was not knowledgeable about the country and the extent of its economy before coming into the class. After being poor from the Korean War and Asian Financial Crisis, Korea was able to industrialize in such a short time compared to other developed countries. During our trip, I experienced first-hand how rich and high-tech South Korea is and how it is more so compared to America, which can be…

The reasons for and manners in which a leader decides to engage in war usually vary from one war to the next. However, the reasons for engaging in war and the intensity of the war can certainly be similar. A comparison of the United States’ involvement in World War II, Korea in the 1950s, and Vietnam in the 1960s, shows the similar patterns for United States interests in foreign disputes. The United States ultimately became involved in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam to put an end to the…

How Aksai Chin became the bone of contention? Mohan Guruswamy 1,260 words Indian and Chinese troops are in yet another face-off in the Aksai Chin region. How this cold and wind-swept desert became a seemingly intractable dispute is tale worth telling. It was the ambitions of two Kashmir Maharaja’s that saddled India with its two biggest security challenges. We know how Hari Singh’s vacillation led to the invasion of his realm by the Pakistani raiders in 1947 and what followed is well known. But…

The Red Scare and The Iron Curtain, what do these two things have in common? Communism, the red scare was the fear that communism was going to penetrate the United States and the Iron curtain was a boundary during the Cold War to separate communists and non-communists. The reason for these scares and divides were because of the problems and fears associated with communism. China began to realize that and introduced capitalism. China has been making gains that got them to where they are today but…

Park Chung Hee and Kim Il Sung are perhaps the two most influential Koreans of the 20th century. They were leaders of two opposing sides on a divided Korean peninsula. Park was the leader of South Korea, known as The Republic of Korea (ROK), and Kim was the leader of North Korea, known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). Since the Korean War, their countries have been in a stalemate characterized by a switch between periods of polarizing tension and times of cooperation and…