Korean horror

“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…

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…

because of the restrictions Kim Jong-Un has enforced among all of the North Korean citizens; North Korea’s leader has put on the country. The discrimination against North Korean’s by their leader is highly unfair and should be stopped immediately. North Korea has been a communist country and controls their people since 1918, democracy is a better way of life and not all are lucky for example like the American citizens. North Koreans are a communist economy, they also live in a very cruel and…

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…

The Vietnam War was an event in which Americans began to question their government’s decision making process. The war started out as US trainers assisting South Vietnam, and then devolved into open American combat. Tens of thousands of deaths would result. People began to question why so many of their loved ones were dying for a war on the other side of the planet that did not affect them. Lack of action by the government after World War II to combat the degradation of the environment angered…

The US began supporting the repressive regimen of Ngo Dinh Diem and his work against communism. The first major involvement of the US began in 1960 known as the Advisors which were killed in 1961. Then in 1964, N. Korean patrol boats were said to have attacked US warships in the Gulf of Tonkin. From what I read on this, it led to controversies in which said that this actually did not occur but another incident that actually did happen was reported. President Johnson…