Country Study : North Korea

Before 1945 Korea was controlled by Japan. After the second World War, USA and Soviet Union split Korea in t two. This cause the divide in the country and another divide in the ideals. USA was preaching capitalism and democracy. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, was looking to spread communism. North Korea invaded South Korea to try to form a stable, united Korea as it was before the end of the Second World War. USA acted decisively to defend the South to stop the threat of communism and to continue their policy of containment. They did not want communism to spread.

Later WWII ended and the Japanese were forced out of the peninsula. After the occupation, two groups of people were on the peninsula. One group wanted to redistribute the wealth and power, but the other group wanted to keep wealth and power as it is. Soon the division increased further during the Cold War. The Cold war caused Korea to split North and South. The North became a communist country with Kim Il-Sung as their leader. The South became a capitalist country with Syungman Rhee as their leader. Soon after the Cold War the Korean War started. Kim Il-Sung wanted all of Korea to be united once more under communist power. He invaded South Korea and started the Korean War. The war ended on the 38th parallel. Just like how it started. After the war North Korea was able to have a better economy than South Korea. North Korea used the Juche system. They relied on themselves for everything. Later North Korea’s economy began to plummet and South Korea’s economy began to boom. South Korea used the capitalist system. It was much different from North Korea’s Communist and Juche System. South Korea’s boom was, because of the help from Hallyu, also know as the Korean Wave or Korean exports. Now South Korea is welcomed much more

North Korea, officially, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, but with the practice of isolationism by their totalitarian communist government, it has also become known as the mysterious “Hermit Kingdom.” This small country remains inaccessible to but, a few due to economic sanctions and ongoing hostilities spanning decades with its southern neighboring country, the United States supported, South Korea. In addition to a complicated past and the regimes, emphasis on self-reliance to limit outside influence, North Korea, has successfully insulated itself from the rest of the world becoming detached and secluded. To know North Korea, you must understand the complex history of when Korea was as a whole nation and of

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.

The Korean War or better known as the forgotten war, was fought from 1950 to 1953. Being sandwiched between World War II and the war in Vietnam it is often overlooked. After World War II, Korea was split into a communist government in the north and a more democratic government in the south. On June 25, 1950 North Korean soldiers marched into South Korea and captured their capital, Seoul. The U.S. and the United Nations sent thousands of soldiers to defend South Korea. The Chinese backed North Korea and soon both sides were in the hills at the 38th Parallel. This imaginary line split the North from the South and the war continued in the hills from 1951 to 1953. Finally, in July of ‘53 prisoners were exchanged and the fighting stopped.

The Korean War was a conflict fought during 1950-1953 between Communist-backed North Korea and the U.N.-backed South Korea. The division of Korea dates back to the early 20th century, when Japan and Russia fought each other for control of the Korean Peninsula.

After World War II ended Japan was forced to give up Korea in 1945, making it a free state again. The UN decided that to help Korea, North and South would be special zones of occupation. The United States would occupy South Korea, Soviet Russia would get North Korea. (“Korean War”) The Korean War started in the 1950’s when North Korea crossed the 38th Parallel into South Korea. Almost immediately after, the UN said they were opposed to these attacks and demanded that North Korea leave South Korea. North Korea did not listen (Whiteclay, 3, 4, 6, 7). A few days later the US defended South Korea with help from 15 other countries of the UN. North Korea was backed by China and Russia. The fighting did not stop until 1953 when an armistice was signed, technically the war is still ongoing. (“Korean War:

When World War II ended in 1945, Korea was divided along the 38th parallel into two distinct countries (1). With the help of the Soviet Union, North Korea established a communist government, while South Korea became Democratic with the support of the United States. On June 25, 1950, with the permission from the Soviet Union, North Korea invaded South Korea. President Harry S. Truman was not going to let the invasion of South Korea be overlooked (2). In spite of the fact that Korea was far from America, the attack on South Korea was the same aggression used by Nazi Germany. On June 27, the United States had entered the war in support of South Korea (3). Eventually the war reached a stalemate in the summer of 1951 (1). On July 27, 1953, North and South Korea signed a truce to stop fighting. In all there was approximately five million deaths (4). Even though the Korean War was only three years long many citizens and soldiers lost their lives.

After Japan started to industrialize, they began to imperialize and try to take over other surrounding countries. They gained control of Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands after China broke an agreement with them to keep military out of Korea. They also went to war with Russia over Manchuria, and won. Finally, in 1910, Japan annexed Korea and gained control of it until the end of World War II. Once World War II ended in 1945, and the Allies had defeated Japan, the Soviets invaded Korea from the north. The United States, fearing that the Soviets wanted total control of Korea, invaded it from the south. The two countries decided that, to not make any long-term decisions, they would divide the country in about half, at the 38th parallel (5). This division of Korea was only supposed to be temporary, but in 1948, both halves of Korea established separate governments. They both claimed that they were the true Korea (1). Kim Il-Sung, who became the leader of the north of Korea in 1948, decided that the Democratic People’s Republic should have a communist government (6). Syngman Ree, who had previously been exiled by Korea, returned to oppose the DPR’s leader, and created his own government for the south of Korea, or the Republic of Korea. Each side wanted to gain control over the whole, previously unified country (2). The Korean War started in June of 1950 because North Korea took it upon itself to end the

When Korea liberated from Japanese control at the end of the Second World War, the United States and the Soviet Union agreed temporarily to divide Korea at the 38th parallel of latitude north of the equator. This division resulted in the formation of two countries: communist North Korea (supported by the Soviets) and South Korea (supported by the United States). Five years after the country’s partition, the communist leader of North Korea, Kim Il Sung, decided to attempt to reunify Korea under his control. On June 25, 1950, Kim launched a surprise invasion of South Korea.

The Korean War took place between North and South Korea from 1950- 1955. Before the war the Korean peninsula was divided between the North who was under the control of the Soviet Union and South who was under control of the United States. North Korea had a communist government with the dictator Kim II Sung and South Korea had a capitalist government under the rule of Syngman Rhee. The 38th parallel was the boundary between the North and South states. North Korea’s government promoted insurgency in South Korea after the Soviet Union installed a communist government there.

After World War II, the Soviet Union and the United States split the Korean peninsula along the 38th parallel (38 degrees north latitude). This resulted of the official created on North Korea, officially known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, in 1948. Tensions continued to rise between the two parts of the peninsula, as each side claimed to have the right to control the entire area of land. In 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea under the leadership of Kim Il Sung, thus beginning the Korean War. The war resulted in over 2.5 million deaths. Ever since an armistice agreement was signed in 1953, North Korea has been blocked from the rest of the world. After the armistice agreement was signed, Kim Il Sung shaped North Korea to his

North Korea is a dangerous place to live, where you aren't allowed to leave. In North Korea the citizens are living in malnourishment, poverty and living under a totalitarian dictatorship lead by Kim Jung Un. I am very interested about North Korea Because we don't know a lot about North Korea. North Korea does not release hardly any information about themselves to other nations, which i think makes them an interesting topic to research. I already knew a little bit about North Korea because of news coverage but I didn't know everything that I learned after researching them more in depth. I knew that North Korea had some of the worth human

Meanwhile, North Korea, long the subject of the domino theory, is now trying to maintain its cult of personality even as its regime transitions to a third generation, one that is widely regarded to be the weakest of the regime. Kim Jong-Un remains something of an international enigma, with little known about his life, but it is widely agreed that he has “…caused a perilous international crisis by testing a nuclear weapon and threatening to use it against America and South Korea. He even distributed a strange photograph of himself supposedly in the act of ordering “merciless” nuclear strikes against the US mainland.” In some ways, Kim Jong-Un is a leader from the same mold as Trump, in that he is trying to use strong words and theatrical approaches to maintain power; the divisions he foments within the North Korean regime seem at least somewhat analogous to the divisions sown by hardline nationalist conservatives in the United States. Although the international community hoped that Kim Jong-Un’s rise to power would hearken toward a more modernized North Korea, he has instead pursued a stridently nationalist regime that sees all other nations, and especially the United States, as a direct threat to its existence.

North Korea appears on the international stage as a country existing beyond the world we all know. It isolates its citizens from the rest of international community and does not obey any rules determined by international law, but requires respect and recognition. Moreover, North Korea is one of the countries that remains aggressive towards its neighbors and applies various terrorist techniques, i.e. illegal contraband, political terror and mass abductions of other countries’ citizens in its foreign policy. The reasons for which the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) behaves so unpredictably and irrationally are diversified. First of all, the DPRK as a country is managed very irrationally – regimes of Kim Il-sung and