Korean martial arts

been a destination for the world’s most powerful nations such China and Japan. These countries have taken utter advantage of the Korean people. Also Korea, for the most part, has been extremely isolated, and therefore “little ethnic mixing has occurred on a significant scale.” (Breen 76) Obviously,…

I do not believe that the Vietnam War was successful for the United States. I believe that it was not successful because cost many American lives, unpopular war for public, and did not stop communism from spreading. Our involvement in Vietnam started during Kennedy’s presidency. At the beginning of his presidency, President Kennedy wanted to stop the spread of communism in Vietnam. With this intention, he increased the number of American military advisors in Vietnam. President Kennedy hoped that…

The Truman doctrine supplied aid to the nations who refused to back down to armed invaders trying to inforce communism. Also it offered finical aid to those who did not give in to outside pressure. The Doctrine also backed those countries politically and it offered military support to those nations. Even if the Nations were engaged in civil war. Truman’s doctrine argued that the U.S. could not just stand by and watching while the Soviet Union took over former fellow democratic nations by force…

words, North Korean people continue to remain silent for their sanity. Taught to bow down and give all to the mighty Kim Jong Un, leaving none for themselves. The sovereign immunity of North Korea protects only the main man in charge but provides absolutely no effect to the biggest problem occurring, the tribulation of the people enduring it. Through the eyes of Shin Dong-hyuk, who experienced the trouble first hand, Blaine Harden opens a new understanding to what the North Koreans encounter…

by domestic tensions and foreign conflicts with the rising Civil Rights movement and progressing Cold War. With the Cold War came the irrational fear of Communism heightened by the Domino Theory. The Domino Theory motivated the US entrance in the Korean War because the United States wanted to prevent Communism spreading to South Korea, fearing that if one Southeast Asian country fell to Communism then all of Southeast Asia would fall as well. To the Americans, their war against Communism was…

This video is courtesy of A&E Television Network. It tells, specifically of the inhumane conditions within the North Korean prisons, called Kwan-li-so or kwalliso. This topic is discussed mostly from 36:21-39:50. It includes several first hand accounts of what people faced within the prisons. The video also tells of the extremes to which some would go to be free (some even considering or attempting suicide). This is a reliable video source. There are several other sources that backup the…

The Vietnam War was a devastating event for the people of Vietnam which left citizens in constant hardship and fear. The first war between the French and Vietnamese was malicious and resulted in many casualties of peasants although, the second war between the Americans and Vietnamese was much worse. In the book When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, written by Le Ly Hayslip, she tells her story of how the war affected her family and the others around them. A major issue that was brought on by the…

In the Vietnam War, communism was the root of U.S. involvement. By dictionary definition, communism is “a theory advocating elimination of private property” and “a system where goods are owned in common and are available to all as needed.” Communism originated in WWII and escalated with the Soviets at the end of the war. The United States had different theories as to how the spread of communism would be stopped, as well as stopping the domino effect from taking place. Truman and Eisenhower had…

In the 20th century, American foreign policy in Vietnam is on the top of my list. The United States war in Vietnam was a lost cause. The American’s did not even gain anything from it, but lost lives both American and Vietnamese. Truman decided to let France its claim in colonizing Vietnam in the hands of France, (727) instead of giving Vietnam the independence they sought since Roosevelt’s administration. That decision of Truman was motivated by two reasons. First, Truman hoped to get support…

lines of Yun Dong Ju’s “서시, “ or “Foreword,” still ring with the anguish and suffering of Korea under the Japanese colonial rule. During World War II, Japan annexed Korea and made its utmost effort to completely annihilate Korea’s national identity. Koreans were given Japanese names, attended Japanese schools, read Japanese books, and spoke Japanese. In the midst of Japan’s cultural sweep was an ordinary citizen, one with neither political power nor influential status, yet is now revered as one…