Korean People's Army

people slowly and systematically. Due to the restrictive and private nature of the country; these people's stories are often untold. Their effect on the global society unspoken. Now from first hand accounts and advanced technology, the true horrors of these prison and labor camps has begun to be uncovered. From this, the general public can start to be educated on what has been happening to North Korean people and the way it’s affected the world as a whole. The dictionary definition of labor…

Not long after the trimming began, Lieutenant Pak Chul of the Korean People’s Army of North Korea, surrounded by ten other North Korean soldiers, approached the workmen and soldiers trimming the tree. “If you cut more branches,” Lieutenant Pak warned, “there will be a big problem” (qtd. in Oberdorfer and Carlin 148). Captain Arthur Bonifas, the American leading the trimming, ignored him, and the poplar trimming operation continued. Lieutenant Pak continued to threaten Captain Bonifas. “The…

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…

Fr. Emil Kapaun, a Catholic priest and U.S. Chaplain in the Korean War said “when I was ordained, I was determined to ‘spend myself ’ for God. I was determined to do that cheerfully, no matter in what circumstances I would be placed or how hard a life I would be asked to lead.” Fr. Kapaun, through his words, demonstrates his understanding of how difficult the role of Chaplain would be in the coming decades of war. The 20th century brought about the deadliest military conflict ever known to man.…

Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla. The Silla Kingdom was able to successfully conquer the other two kingdoms, and drove out all of the Chinese Tang Dynasty forces, unifying the Korean Peninsula for the first time, in 676. Although this unification led to rapid economic growth and prosperity, conflict continued both from within the Korean Peninsula and from the threat of the Chinese to the North. Over the next millennium, Korea remained generally unified under two more kingdoms, Goryeo (now Korea) and…

China. The United States and Russia decided to cut Korea in half at the 38th Parallel. Russia would take the northern half and the United States would take the southern half. “In 1948, when the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was established, Kim Il-Sung became the first premier of the North Korean communist regime.” (Encyclopidia Britanica , 2014). At first Kim Il-Sung would follow his Russian supports in a communist regime, soon though his leadership would change from being Pro-Russian…

Why did President Truman decide for the U.S to be involved in the Korean War? A. Plan of Investigation This investigation assesses President Truman’s justification for the U.S to be involved in the Korean War of 1950. In order to evaluate the justification for Truman’s decisions, the investigation is listed through the events that led up to the War in chronological order from the initial days before the War and into the War. This supports the purpose in why the war started and what led Truman…

Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. This is the policy that allowed the US to get engaged in the Korean War, the Vietnam War and other proxy war during the cold war. In the same time, the Truman Doctrine affected America’s foreign policy made it turn to the policy of containment which had the main idea of keeping Communism where it was and could…

not only study Korean but also to spend six months studying abroad in Seoul. Before studying Korean, Korea has always peaked my interest as it was a country that not many people in my life knew about in great detail, making it quite exotic. My goals for my exchange was not only about studying abroad in one of Seoul’s top universities, Yonsei University, but also to actively interact in Korean society. Whether that was through traveling throughout the country or interacting with Korean students…

Culture and Concerns South Korea is a country with a very rich culture and is very different from our own culture here in the United States. One of the aspects of South Korean culture that stand out the most is its hierarchical structure. This section will explain how the different cultural frameworks and concepts apply to South Korean culture. The first is the sociology framework. Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck described culture as having 6 different dimensions: time, space, activity,…