North Korea is a country that the U.S. has been at odds with for decades. Today, with North Korea’s recent nuclear tests and threats against the U.S. and its allies, and President Trump’s intolerance for North Korea; the conflict between the two nations has escalated to precarious levels. Many claiming the world is on the brink of WWIII and nuclear warfare. In the U.S.’ position, what should they do under this situation? The answer to this question is to declare war on North Korea. Engaging in…
Traders from Lebanon, from 1000 B.C.E, spread iron-working technology west through Mediterranean along the North African coastline. Settlements became colonies, Carthage was the most important. Berbers supplied them with food and the Phoenician-Berbers became Carthaginians. They explored the Atlantic coast of north-west Africa, possibly to Cape Blanc by 400 B.C.E. Carthaginian power (800-500 B.C.E.) was partly based on trans-Saharan trade. Berber pastoralists…
current situation the U.S. and North Korea are involved in. North Korea has been launching nuclear missile tests, and the U.S. has had enough of it. President Trump has sent a warship to the Korean peninsula, and the North Koreans took that personal, calling it, "an act of war". Other countries such as South Korea, China, and others are at great risk of being caught in the cross fire between these two. So the petrifying but necessary question must be asked, is North Korea going to bomb the…
that ran into the Hudson’s Bay were owned by the HBC. This was extended when parts of the northern landmass was added to the HBC’s lands. When HBC gave it’s lands to the Dominion, it extended Canada’s reach north (W.R. Morrison). The British Government gave Canada all of its arctic land in the north, spreading Canadian influence upwards, while the Americans made vague claims to islands closer to Greenland. But it can be disputed that Norway, in fact, should own these islands as apparently…
led him from Greenland all the way to Canada, where he and his crew established the Vinland settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows and became the first European settlement, let alone Viking settlement to reach North America. Although there has been controversy over the validity of the Vikings reaching North America, the excavation of L'Anse aux Meadows in the 1960's gave yield…
North Korea 's Nuclear program has been one of the world 's most controversial and high tensioned issues in the past fifteen years. “The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy.” (Dick Cheney) Ever Since Kim Jong Il’s death in 2011 his son, Kim Jong Un, has taken over power in North Korea. The United States has demanded them to get rid of their Nuclear program and also demanded the respect and…
was established on August 13, 1812. It was founded by the Russian American company. The Russians came to California in the 1780s and they settled on Kodiak Island, Alaska. The company’s ships were searching for sea otters, seal and sea lion pelts. They wanted to form colonies to trap the sea otters and harvest their pelts because they were…
introduction of the Bering Land Bridge hypothesis provided Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples with an explanation for how the peopling of North America came to occur that is separate from traditional Indigenous origin stories. However, it is key to note that, as with any hypothesis, there are academics who agree and disagree with the idea that people migrated from Asia to North America along the Bering land bridge (McIlwraith, 2016). The book by Dan O’Neill entitled The Last Giant of Bering…
day that Christopher Columbus arrived in North America was a momentous day. Along with the great discovery of North America that is worthy of celebration, it also marks the beginning of the mass genocide of the Native Americans. The later of the two has been ignored. As the tales go, “In fourteen hundred ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.” We are taught from the day we step foot into schools that Christopher Columbus was a hero who sailed the seas and stumbled on the Bahamas by…
There are dangers to starting this war with North Korea and reasons the United States has not started war. One large concern that would be brought up is what would happen to Seoul if war started. Japan is also under threat of attack as well. The Korea Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, which handles the North’s external ties and propaganda, gave the statement, “The four islands of the archipelago should be sunken into the sea by the nuclear bomb of Juche. Japan is no longer needed to exist near us…