Arguments Against North Korean War

It should be noted that North Korea’s communist ally and veto holder, the Soviet Union, was absent from this meeting in protest of the communist China’s exclusion from the Security Council. A United Nations defense force led by the United States, came to the of South Korea and in a rapid counter-offensive, they were able to push the North Koreans back past the 38th parallel close to Yalu River along the border with China. Warnings from Communist China that it would intervene should UN forces push past the 38th parallel were ignored by UN Commanders and true to their word, the Chinese Intervened on behalf of the North pushing UN and ROK forces back to the 38th parallel. In 1953, the war ended with an armistice that restored the border between the Koreas near the 38th Parallel and created the Korean Demilitarized Zone, a 4 Km wide buffer zone between the two Koreas (Edwards 2005).

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The conflict I am focusing on is the conflict between North Korea and the USA.

The Korean War was a defining part of the United States foreign policy in the Cold War Era and was a response to threats from the Soviet Union. The Korean War was a culmination of tensions between North and South Korea that had resulted from the influences the United States and the Soviet Union inculcated into the countries during their occupation. When the Korean War was initiated, by the invasion of South Korea by North Korea, the United States and their allies in the United Nations perceived the invasion as a bold communistic expansion effort that occurred without provocation. (Document A). Further validating this idea was the fact that the attack was endorsed by the USSR, and partially lead by Red China, both of which were communist countries

On the 25th of June 1995, North Korea took the first military action. They sent 75,000 troopers to south korea with a wanted outcome of soviet expansion .America took this as a “threat” to their way of living/life.So in the same month (June). America sent in their stoppers to south korea , on the behalf of south Korea .President Kennedy ,and Dwight D. Eisenhower did not see any good in communism spreading.

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

To begin with, If we were to go to war with North Korea they would be very pleased by it because they are not looking for any sort of compromise with the United States. According to the article, “The case for letting North Korea keep its nukes”, it states that from “the thinking here, as far as we can tell from the outside, is that you need to threaten North Korea with a credible

If the United States were to become a real empire tomorrow, I would hope the leaders of our empire would invade North Korea. North Korea is one of he United States most feared threats. Invading North Korea would make the United States as a whole, feel more protected or secure. Many reasons come to mind when thinking about invading North Korea such as, nuclear bomb threats, partial benefit towards North Korea, and the advantages and disadvantages.

portrayed containment in the Korean War by having the United Nations step in during the attack, having a counterattack, and then keeping Korea two countries. The U.S. and U.N. stepped in and helped South Korea when North Korea started to attack them. Stalin told North Korea to attack South Korea because he wanted to have control of the whole country and spread communism. The United States and the United Nations interfered because they did not want the Soviets to take over South Korea. The North Koreans were pushing the South Koreans almost of the Korean peninsula even with the United States helping to defend. Soon, MacArthur, the U.S. General came up with a counterattack pushing the North Koreans all the way to the Yaul River. They were stopping the spreading of communism until China stepped in. As China stepped in, they fought all the way back to the 38th Parallel. Finally, after several years the war ended. South Korea gained a little more land over the 38th Parallel, but both countries were kept separate. The United States, in this case, stopped the spreading of communism (Doc

St. Augustine provided comments on morality of war from the Christian point of view (railing against the love of violence that war can engender) as did several critics in the intellectual flourishing from the 9th to 12th centuries. Just war theorists remind warriors and politicians alike that the principles of justice following war should be universalizable and morally ordered and that winning should not provide a license for imposing unduly harsh or punitive measures or that state or commercial interests should not dictate the form of new peace. “The attraction for jus post bellum thinkers is to return to the initial justice of the war”. This means that war is considered as self-defense.

In March 2014, the Chinese government announced that it would receive and identify over 300 remains of Chinese soldiers who were killed in South Korea in the 1950s, adding another similarity between the two major belligerents of the Korean War---China and United States---in recovering their dead soldiers from hostile lands. The similarity deserves a comparison between these two countries’ practices in searching for and repatriating killed servicemen in the last several decades, which will be a section of my dissertation. The project for this semester would focus on the comparison in the first decade after the Korean War.

I am going to show pre-emptive war with North Korea is wrong because according to Aquinas’ second criteria for Just War, the United States does not have just cause. North Korea has not attacked the United States or deprived them of their rights. With the state of North Korea’s nuclear program, they have not proved that they are a credible threat to the United States. Having a leader that is unpredictable does not provide a reason for a pre-emptive strike. Also, there are four other criteria that are commonly cited for just war in the modern era and I will be citing one of them- last resort. The United States has not arrived at a last resort situation and therefore does not have justifiable reason to pre-emptively strike North Korea.

The third source that I decided to use was an English newspaper. The headline from the article was the first thing that stood out, suggesting that Trump might bomb North Korea next. The article barely covers the event, instead, it covers Eric Trump's comments and the possibility that North Korea can be next. The newspapers instigates that the United States might use military action against North Korea though including Eric Trump's statement hinting that his father is not afraid to make "North Korea...next on the hit list if Kim Jong-Un carries on developing atomic weapons" (Daily Mirror, April 14, 2017). The newspaper just adds more fuel to the existing tension between the United States and North Korea with such a provocative statement.

The Korean War was a trying time for America. The nation was getting involved in a war that had little or no possibility of a fortunate outcome. The Korean people were divided among how the country should be run. A uniform system of government looked like it may never come to be. In order to protect one of its vital interests as well as to prove to the rest of the world that America didn’t stand for communism, the United States began taking up arms. The war would prove a most difficult task to achieve successfully. In fact, it was almost impossible to continue fighting what seemed to be far from a worthy sacrifice of American lives.

The Causes of the Korean War On 25th June 1950, ninety thousand North Korean soldiers invaded South Koreas border defences, The Korean war had begun, this small scale civil war would escalate into an international conflict. Historically Korea had once been a united country, under Japanese rule for between 1905 and 1945 however, the Japanese were unruly and did not treat the Koreans well. At the end of the Second World War it was decided that the country would be divided along the 38th parallel and occupied by soviet troops in the North and American troops in the South. Syngman Rhee, who had spent some years exiled in America, became the president of South Korea in 1948, while Kim Il Sung, having