Korean Peninsula

up in a middle class family. It was only after the North Korean famine of the late 90s that she started to witness suffering, starvation, and death in her country. At a very young age she witnessed a public execution. Soon she regularly witnessed starvation and suffering of the population. Her father was taken away by the military and he eventually died from an unknown cause. She lived close to the border with China and…

of a story on the seized Korean device until the government is ready to announce it. The government offered an exclusive interview in exchange, but no date was given as when the story would be released. The public deserves to know the true extent of the North Korean threat. The public was already aware of the fact that the North Koreans sold uranium to Libya and a complete nuclear reactor to Syria. The only new information this document provides is that the North Koreans have now tried to sell…

listen and speak English, I have a translator in my head. What it means is that I have to translate English into Korean first. These indirect processes of literacy take more time to communicate in English. Specifically, the arrangement of words in sentences is opposite. For example, the sentence "I am writing an essay" changed about "an essay I am writing" when it converted to Korean. The difference of word placement makes me hard ,especially, when I speak English. For instance, in class, I have…

Fear. Worry. Love. That’s what the citizens of the hermit kingdom that is North Korea feel. They fear for their lives, they worry for their loved ones, but they love the chains that bind them. Their captor is their ‘savior’. North Korea is the closest thing to a dystopian society Earth has to offer right now. It’s closed off from the rest of the world besides a small outlet into China for trade for without that trade it would fall to ruins. The government in Anthem is its parallel.The novel…

was able to confirm that North Korea has the ability to launch Nukes at U.S. Additionally, during the annual military joint drill between South Korea and U.S. North Korea threatened to “Turn the stronghold of provocation into a heap of ashes through Korean-style preemptive strike if the US and south Korea show the slightest sign of aggression.” (Browne R., & Starr B. 2016) So as it seems now North Korea is sitting with their finger on the trigger ready to launch nukes at either the United States…

Fact Book * Modes: the main modes of transportation in South Korea are airports, road transport, and rail transport. Especially, the roads appeared to have the largest share of the overall transportation infrastructure. * Availability: South Korean government has invested heavily on increasing and maintains an efficient transportation system. Past few years, total road network increased by 25% in South Korea. * Usage rates: Use Incheon (Inch'on), Pohang (P'ohang), Busan (Pusan),…

The Korean War began at 4:30 AM on June 25th, 1950, and ended on July 27th, 1953. There are still more than 7 000 US soldiers missing in action from the war. A North Korean Film called Unsung Heroes (1978) glorifies members of the North Korean military while depicting crimes by South Korea and the US. In its cast were several US soldiers who had defected to North Korea. The Korean War was a conflict between the democratic South Korea and communist North Korea, regarding the events of Japan’s…

Before the second World War has started, the Korean Peninsula had been a part of Japan. After the war had ended, it needed to be split up. The Northern part went under the control of the Soviet Union and the Southern part under the control of the United States. The Soviet Union was communist and the United States was against communism. The two sides were divided at the 38th parallel. Both sides, the North and South, were not getting along and they were having constant skirmishes and battles…

Korea: Population and Technology North Korea is located on the Korean Peninsula in eastern Asia. North Korea is bordered by China, Russia, and South Korea. Not far to the East lies Japan, the former occupier of the entire peninsula (CIA). The location between these countries is one of the most important keys to the formation of North Korea. The exclusive nature, high-urbanization, and governmental policies are leaving the Korean population in a tug-of-war between natural reductions and…

The technology is becoming important in the future development of the financial industry especially, banking industry. Electronic banking channels are providing alternatives for faster delivery of banking services to the customers such as online banking. Electronic-banking is the latest delivery channel of banking services. Once banking institutions recognized the low processing cost per transaction via the internet, they began viewing online banking as an extension of the bank rather than as an…