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sung took power of North Korea in 1948, and two years later the Korean War commenced. On June 25, 1950, soldiers from communist North Korea had launched an invasion of their noncommunist neighbor, South Korea. South Korean troops were surprised, outnumbered, and outgunned by the invaders. In the first week of the war, ROK forces suffered 44,000 casualties.” The United Nations entered the war with the U.S and supported South Korea while China entered the war and supported North Korea. A deadlock…

Despite Kim's propaganda, North Korea made itself universally acknowledged as a deeply restrained and confining state. The founder’s brutality relating to the his past reflect the ideas now practiced in North Korea’s totalitarian government. Spreading across three generations, the current communist party of North Korea has had the power to keep their objectives alive. In an essay written by Will Hopkins, he states that Kim started off his regime by eliminating any political opposition and…

North Korea and Denuclearization North Korea has flirted with the idea of denuclearization in the past, but the issue has been brought back up recently. From 1985, they have made many deals to stop the production and tests of nuclear weapons, but they have either violated them or asked for ridiculous amounts of assistance. (“This isn’t the first time pyongyang has flirted with denuclearization,” Joe Sterling, March 9th 2018 CNN.) Today they are making steps towards connecting back with the…

Citizens in North Korea are living in horrific conditions in political prison camps are abused and tortured on a daily basis. As I am sure you are aware, political prison camps are a serious issue in North Korea at this moment in time. People accused of political crimes and their families are sent to live in brutal and abusive conditions. Punishing the sons and grandsons of a rebel is known as 3 generations of punishment. The idea of the 3 generations of punishment is to get rid of rebel lineage…

Cultural Exploration of North Korea Little known about North Korea due to the strict government and life style that they live. In this paper, informative information will be revealed on some of the challenges North Koreans face and living condition that they are exposed to that differ from the American way of life. In a publication by Sonya Yang on The Democratic Republic of Korea, “The Soviets endorsed a group of former guerrilla fighters as national leaders. This included a…

People’s Republic of Korea, or North Korea. Named the Hermetic State, it stands as one of the few totalitarian countries today. However, the current regime in North Korea would not have come to life had there been no Soviet influence on that peninsula. If there was no USSR influence, Communism, anti-American sentiment and the eventual dictatorship would never have sprung up in Korea. Through their like-minded ideals, like a puppet master the Soviet Union manipulated the North Koreans into…

North Korea, the country whose leader is now referred to as “Rocket Man” has held a oppressive regime for more than seventy years, and now thinks that it can threaten the UN and its members. The country is and has been threatening the United States with not only ballistic missile but now they also threaten with Hydrogen bombs (Winsor). US government officials claim that they have tried to negotiate with North Korea, but the foreign officials refuse to listen (Winsor). While President Trump’s…

The North American Police State Hidden Beneath our Noses For us North Americans, it is difficult to understand the life in a police state. Why? It’s because we have rights and freedoms and privacy that are all taken very seriously by the law as well; we even have our own privacy commissioners to monitor the protection of our privacy. Everyone in North America, even criminals, is treated lawfully so it’s hard to believe that these are all lies that we were told. We North Americans are…

There is clearly a stranglehold on the North Korean people today that’s causing them to socially asphyxiate as compared to the rest of the world. They’re shoveled handfuls of lies by their own government and kept in horrible conditions for the most part because they’ve been too brainwashed to notice. The North Koreans were obviously not fond of Americans as the book demonstrated and it truly did open a gate of curiosity to see if that’s what the rest of the world thought of the United States.…

Although North Korea shares its border with South Korea on the Korean peninsula, the two countries could not be anymore polar opposite. Originally one united country, the separation of the two states along the 38th parallel due to the aftermath of World War II explains the different ideologies that came to found each country. It can be argued that North Korea is one of the world’s most secluded countries. Even in the present day, North Korea has an isolationist stance with the rest of the world…