The Invasion Of North Korea

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North Korea, Its almost everyday we hear about it, the country has a long history of making terrifying threats that defy global norms. In 1994, the North Korea threatened to turn neighboring Seoul into a “sea of fire.” When President George W. Bush said that the Hermit Kingdom part of the “axis of evil” in 2002, Pyongyang claimed it would “mercilessly wipe out the aggressors.” And after the UN sanctioned North Korea for conducting a nuclear missile test in 2013, the country responded with a lengthy document that included the line: “Time has come to stage a do-or-die final battle.” North Korea often puts the U.S. in its crosshairs when it threatens the outside world. Deciding if North Korea is a truly unpredictable enemy requires asking the …show more content…

The history of North Korea began with the partition of Korea at the end of World War II in 1945. The surrender of Japan led to the division of Korea into two occupation zones, with the United States control the southern half of the peninsula and the Soviet Union controlling the area northern half. The Soviets and Americans were unable to agree on the Joint Trusteeship over Korea. This led, in 1948, to the establishment of two separate governments - The Communist-aligned Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the West-aligned Republic of Korea - each claiming to be the real government of all of Korea. In 1950 the Korean War broke out. After much destruction, the war ended with the same status being restored, as neither the DPRK nor the ROK had succeeded in conquering the other's side of the original Korea. Tension between the two sides continued. Kim Il-sung remained in power until his death in 1994. He developed a pervasive personality cult and steered the country on an independent course in accordance with the idea of Juche (self-reliance). However, with natural disasters and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, North Korea went into a severe economic crisis. Kim Il-sung's son, Kim Jong-il, succeeded him, and was in turn succeeded by his son, Kim Jong-un. Even through the national alarm, North Korea …show more content…

These sort of jokes make our generation turn a blind eye at what is really happening in the North Korea, if all were not to care at all about North Korea there would be no one to impose sanctions and stopping nuclear developments therefore North Korea can progress to making anything they want. North Korea is definitely not a weak and powerless country, but they have a few problems such as food shortages as well as daily power outages and this is in the capital city of pyongyang! There is major difficulties in cities far away from the capital as featured in a short from CNN documentary where a man went undercover in one of the towns and found people crying and cannibalizing each other for food as for those that were not as lucky there bodys where to be left to rot in ditches, over 600,000 people had died due to the country's lack of food and the entire population was affected in height and weight due to severe malnourishment. Exposing this sort of truth to the world is punishable by death because Kim Jong-Un wants to cover up these sort of realities with so many people malnourished North Korea might just end up destroying itself instead of

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