Since 1948 the issue of unification has been a stalemate between North and South Korea, no substantive changes have been made despite discussions being held both in 1972 and 1979. Therefore, new approaches must be developed that could increase the possibility of agreement between the Koreas’. This paper will look at the use of a game theoretical model based on the Prisoner 's Dilemma to analyze the situation and provide strategy recommendations which could improve the status quo. The paper will conclude that action should be taken now, and the initiative for unification needs to come from within the Koreas’ along with a significant increase in dialogue and cooperation if unification is to occur. Two prisoners accused of the same crime …show more content…
The dilemma arises from the circumstance that in the absence of communication and hence of making binding agreements, there is no way of rationalizing the choice of action, which if taken by both players, benefits both. Prisoner 's Dilemma is the type of a two-person game which has a configuration of payoffs that gives both players dominant incentives, in the absence of an enforceable agreement to the contrary, to choose strategies that together yield both players a less desirable outcome than if both had made opposite choices. The game can be either cooperative or non-cooperative in that overt communication between the players may or may not be permitted. In either case the choices, or alternating plays, of each side become obvious to the other side after each round of play. In the case of Korean Unification, the plays are the alternating proposals made by each side in an effort to elicit cooperation from the other side. 1. The 2 x 2 Experience The situation in Korea can be viewed in simple game-theoretical terms as a conflict between two parties whose interests do not fully coincide. Both sides assume different values they can derive from the range of possible outcomes of the situation. They also maintain a perception of the values for each outcome that the other player might conceivably receive. This type of game can be represented by a rectangular array or matrix. The horizontal rows represent the decisions available to one player while the vertical columns
A year prior before the Battle of Osan in 1949 the leader of North Korea, Kim Il-Sung, promised the “War of Liberation” would be welcomed by South Koreans. In addition, tensions were already boiling as the cold war was beginning. It should have come to no surprise that the
North Korea, formally known as the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a relic of the Cold War and the world’s last remaining totalitarian Stalinist dictatorship. Arguably the most secretive state in the world, North Korea poses a unique set of challenges to the world, especially to its democratic and capitalist neighbor, South Korea, formally known as the Republic of Korea (ROK). As one of the last remnants of the Cold War era, North Korea remains an anomaly of the international system due to its unpredictable nature and disregard for international norms. With the recent bombardment of the South Korean Island of Yeongpyong and the sinking of the warship Cheonan, tensions between the two Koreas are at the lowest point since
The U.S. helped to divide the Korean peninsula at the end of World War II, and then waged war against North Korea in the 1950s. Although the U.S. signed a peace agreement rather than a peace treaty with North Korea after the war, its policy toward the country changed. Instead of trying to overthrow the North Korea government, the U.S. government adopted a policy of containing communism. During the 1980’s, associations between North Korea and the U.S. start to take on a new diplomatic form. North Korea’s nuclear weapons program had become a pressing international issue
The Korean War begun far before North Korea had launched their first assault upon South Korea. Nearing of the end of the Second World War, the Korean Peninsula had been under Japanese control. Soon enough it was liberated by both American and Soviet forces, the Soviets occupying the country north of the 38th Parallel, and the Americans south of it. After the war, neither the Koreans, Soviets, nor the Americans could agree on the country's government. This resulted in the foundation of the Republic of Korea (ROK) in the south and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north (Ohn Chang-Il, 23). The fact that neither the States nor the Soviets were willing to compromise on anything was a prime factor in the separation of the Korean Peninsula.
This paper will delve into the little known aspects of North Korea. Hopefully, a better understanding of the country’s characteristics can benefit both the neighboring
The Korean War is a forgotten conflict in American history in which this conflict was followed by World War II in 1950. The United States didn’t enter World War II until the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. World War II has ended resulting in the United States defeating Nazi Germany, in support of allies of the United States in coordination with the United Nations. The citizens of America have peace and prosperity now that their G.I.s are home. However, there is still tension between the United States and the communist Soviet Union. During the mid 1940s countries that had conflicts with each other have now been resolved. North and South Korea, one country, only divided by its regions, do not like
After 3 years of war everyone but North Korea had enough war, so the Soviets, the UN, and the Sourth Koreans signed a truce. That truce would divide the country in two and they would officially be two seperate countries. They also said that any acts of aggression from the North Koreans would not be tolerated. They said that all of the armies that signed it would be on high alert until total peace was restored.
A fierce battle between the two camps fell into more and more stalemate after about three years into the war. (History, 2015) The United States policy for the Korean Peninsula has changed from armed unification policy to negotiations policy. True negotiations began with a proposal issued by the United Nation followed by the immediate acceptance from the United
Firstly, your essay begins with an excellent beginning. It provides the opening of the Korea’s war and the disagreeing with America. Moreover, you graciously elaborate on the political views, arm force and budget.
The strategic board game Diplomacy focuses on wars, but more importantly the act of negotiating. The players are responsible for forming strategies by both developing and breaking alliances with their competitors. The game is set in Europe during World War I with most teams beginning with similar resources. Each player competes as an either Austria-Hungary, Turkey, Italy, England, France, Russia, or Germany. With at least three home center game pieces on the board, there are strategic movements in order to control one of the eighteen supply centers. This involves phases of negotiation prior to movement of game piece. There is no factor of luck. The main variable in the game is each team’s ability to convince the others to do what they want. The core game strategy is negotiation.
A popular military aphorism stated by Earnest Hemmingway was, “Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.” With the ongoing troubles of the Cold War and rising tension along the 38th Parallel that split the once nation of Korea in two, this statement will become imminent. Through basic principles of leadership exhibited by General Douglass MacArthur to take a chance at a dynamic or what some may lean to call unorthodox strategic planning, history was forever changed. A battle against Communism, with definitely some manipulated agendas became the focus in 1950 which sparked the Korean War.
At the mid-point of the century that had already seen two appallingly destructive and costly World wars, just as the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States broke due to their ideological differences after World War II, in the midst of the Cold War was the Korean War. The Korean War began on June 25, 1950 when the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, a border between South and North Korea, to attack South Korea. The size of the war quickly grew as it began to involve countries like China, Soviet Union, and the United States. With nothing to show rather than early back-and-forth across the 38th parallel between the two sides, the Korean War marked its end in July 1953 with about 5 million losses of soldiers and innocent civilians during the war. Korean peninsula still divided today, one must understand how Korean War marks a significant turning point in the context of international order and relations, and the American foreign policies. During the 1950s, the Korean War was tremendously significant as it marked the first concrete war against communism as well as revealing inconsistencies in American foreign policy.
It has been almost sixty-five years since the split of Korea into the North and South. Although it was not until 1953 when Korea was confirmed by a signed agreement that it is spilt in North Korea and South Korea. As a result of Korea separating into two countries, two different people were in power with different types of governing. Although both countries were once one single country, they both have merged into two totally different countries, that if in the future they came back together to be one country it would be difficult to comprise their rulers and come to an agreement of governing between them.
“War doesn’t determine what is right, only what is left,” said Bertrand Russell. Everyone once in their lives face Korean war in their history classes. Korean war, the first military attack after the cold war occurred between 1950 to 1953 and left a hostile scar in the world with more than 5 million casualties that the Koreas ended in a ceasefire, not a peace treaty, technically remaining the peninsula still at war. The headline: “Negotiations Break Down Between Two Koreas” (Choe, “The New York Times”) illustrates how the two Koreas failed to achieve an agreement as they couldn’t narrow their differences on holding reunions for separated families. In this negotiation talk, South Korea requested for corporations on reuniting thousands of aging Koreans whose families are dispersed by the Korean war. However, North Korea would carry out this only when the South agrees on continuing the tourist business in collaboration with the North which was ceased after a South Korean tourist got shot by a soldier from the North Korean army for roaming around the restricted area in 2008. The tourist investigation had been a significant financial backer to the North and South Korea would resume this, if they admit and apologize for their fault. Unfortunately, the talk was founded as a result of not budging from its position. Later on, in August that year, they had a military engagement after two South Korean border guards were crippled by the land mines from North Korea. In fact, breaking
This article deals with the United States and its attempts to deal with the dangerous matters of North Korea. Some of the problems that were brought up in this article were North Korea’s plan to restart a plutonium based nuclear program at Yongbyon, North Korea’s plan to build a new highly enriched uranium (HEU) nuclear program, and the tension that emerged between the United States and South Korea. Even though many problems were occurring, there were some positive things that were happening at the time. The United States began negotiating with North Korea and South Korea about establishing railroad links, demining portions of the demilitarized zone, allowing athletes to compete in the Asian games, and allowing abductees to visit Japan.