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    book Nothing To Envy Ordinary - Lives In North Korea Barbara Demick depicts the everyday lives that go on in the regime that has been created under North Korean communist power. The book shows many of the economic factors that took place in the beginning and current state of North Korea. With the extreme government regulation that North Koreans experience, there is a lack of basic human rights, poverty, and overall economic freedom. With most of the world establishing a capitalist system North…

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    The Korean War: A History by Bruce Cumings offers a new look at the history of the Korean War. The book seeks to provide an alternative to the typical military history of the Korean War and challenges the reader to critically think about their previous presumptions of what happened in Korea. A major theme in The Korean War is memory and the idea of how war is remembered. Cumings’ main argument is that the common idea among scholars and the general public that the Korean War should be remembered…

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    Korean War Vs Communism

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    The Korean war started on June 25, 1950 and lasted for three years. The korean war rose out a division in ideologies. After the Japanese surrendered during World War II, Korea was divided between the USA and the Soviets along the 38th parallel. South Korea became a nation with a free market…

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    The Ignored North Korean Genocide The genocide in North Korea has been happening for decades, evidence of these camps has been traced back to the end of the Korean War in the 1950’s. Ever since the first reports of these labor camps, the U.N has done little to nothing to stop them as well as the death happening inside of them and that is why the genocide in North Korea is being ignored by the rest of the world. The things happening in North Korea have not been labeled officially as “genocide”…

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    The Korean War also known as the “Forgotten War”, it is known as the Forgotten War because of where it fell in its place in American History between world war two and Vietnam War. First you must understand Korean War had its roots long before the United States ever took control of the Southern half of the peninsula and the Soviet Union controlled the north. Secondly once you understand what caused the division then you can actually understand what cause the North Korean leader to invade the…

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    The Korean Wave refers to the cultural phenomenon in which people in the world are willing to adopt and consume Korean popular culture (Jung, 2006). The Korean Wave is the term coined by the Chinese media for the first time to describe the sudden surge in the popularity of Korean culture in China in 2002 (Hogarth, 2013). The Korean Wave usually includes Korean music, dramas, films and games and is a hot cultural change and trend especially in Asian nations today. Korean television drama has been…

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    The Korean War was a war between South Korea and North Korea. The drastic situation of the war caused for the joining of multiple nations supporting the communist side, and the United Nations. The United Nations had the goal of stopping the spread of communism and the threat it poses. This long war was the first that involved battles between jet aircraft. It also was the first war that an international organization, the United Nations, was in through military involvement (Armstrong, 2015, p.…

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    The Korean War is known as the ‘Forgotten War’, but to the countries that were impacted by this war it was anything but forgotten. The Korean War took place on June 25, 1950 and did not end until July, 1953 (History, 2015). There were twenty-one members of the United Nations, commonly known as UN, that sent military forces and aid to South Korea. This war is a ‘world war’ because it included several countries around the world help either North or South Korea. North Korea was under the influence…

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    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…

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    Korean War (Forgotten War)

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    Korean War (Forgotten War) The end of the Second World War meant peace and prosperity for the Americans and many others around the world. This was certainly not the case for the Korean people, this meant struggle and difficulty. As many Korean people thought this would be the end of Japanese control, and a chance to become unified. Due in part because Korea was part of the Japanese Empire from 1905 until 1945. This quickly led to a great deal of tension between the Soviet Union and the United…

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