North Korean Crisis Research Paper

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be governed by a dictatorship? What laws do the citizens of a dictatorship have to follow? Who is the dictator, and what is he/she’s responsibilities? Where else in the world is dictatorship being practiced? A dictatorship is a government ruled by a dictator that grants citizens limited rights and is practiced by many countries. Today, North Korea is the most widely-discussed county that is governed by a dictatorship.

The rising tension over the sinking of a South Korean ship reached to a serious conflict between South Korean and North Korea. South Korean is accusing North Korean for firing the torpedo on purpose which resulted in 46 sailors deaths. According to Yonhap news, North Korean military official accused the South of intruding into North Korean waters in the Yellow Sea. North Korea sends a warning message to South Korea by firing torpedo to warn South Korea to not intrude in to their waters in Yellow Sea. North Korea doesn’t want to admit to their mistake; instead they are threatening to retaliate with military actions if South Korea won’t stop with accusations.

Since the 1950’s North Korea has posed as dangerous threat to The United States and its allies. With North Korea development of Nuclear arms and its consistent hostile rhetoric and actions towards the United States. With the North Korea’s development of a long range ICBM, more now than ever the United States has been put into a position where its and many of its

East Asia continues to present a broad spectrum of opportunities and challenges to the United States, our allies, and partners. The United States Government (USG) and Department of Defense (DoD) continues to work closely with its allies and partners to build relationships and capacity vital to advancing U.S. national interests of security, prosperity, international order, and the promotion of universal values. The most profound and alarming trend within the East Asia region over the past several years is the increasing belligerence and defiance of the Kim Jung-un regime of North Korea. The United States regards the coercive activities by North Korea, in particular its pursuit of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and ballistic missile capabilities, to comprise the most urgent security threat in the region. The USG is fully committed to maintaining peace throughout the Korean Peninsula by effectively working with our allies and other regional states to deter and defend against North Korean military provocations, weapons proliferation, and illicit trafficking; and to support enforcement of international sanctions restricting North Korean arms trade and other prohibited activities.

The general argument made by Harry J. Kazianis in his work , “The North Korea Nightmare”, is that North Korea chose to isolate themselves thinking that is better for their country but in reality it is not . He writes “there is only one thing that is clear: Tensions on the Korean peninsula are only going to get worse”. In this passage , Kazianis is suggesting that Kim Jong Un is not doing a great job running his country and is causing his country to become isolated from the other countries . Kim enjoys flaunting around his new weapons .”Every time Kim tests a new weapons system — or decides to parade them down the street — the world goes into a panic.” This shows that Kim enjoys the reactions of other countries causing mass destruction and contemplating

Tensions between the U.S. and North Korea have been gradually rising for a long time, but what is the reason for the long-lasting feud? Regarding North Korea's situation and their relationship with Western countries, they mostly thinking about their side of issues (“The growing nuclear”). Making rules that are to be followed, this group of nations will often come together to negotiate some kind of peace. Reluctantly, North Korea follows these rules at first, but sooner or later they prove themselves to be untrustworthy as they fail to hold up their side of the agreement, which seems to have happened on multiple accounts. While all of the events that lead to believe North Korea should not be trusted are building up, their leader, Kim Jong

The most dangerous and lethal supreme leader of North Korea, Jim Jong Un, the third generation in his family to lead their country, is using his self-preservation tactics by launching ballistic testing missiles that could be a big threat to not only the U.S. but also in South Korea, and possibly Japan. The decision on whether or not we should attack North Korea is a very difficult choice. “If we were to attack them, we pose a big threat of killing approximately 10 million people in Seoul, South Korea and 25 million or more people in the metropolitan area of South Korea, which is almost half of the population” (Wood, North Korea’s Simple But Deadly Artillery Holds Seoul and U.S. Hostage). Understanding the cost and benefits of our options is

On Tuesday North Korea warned that America's "military provocations" risked triggering nuclear conflict with one newspaper claiming Kim Jong Un's regime was "waiting for the moment it will reduce the whole of the U.S. mainland to ruins.” North Korea has been prepared for war for many years now and North Korea dose not want to go to war with America. North Korea is so small America would blow it to pieces in a few days with big nuclear booms.

North Korea is the most dangerous and unpredictable actor in the Indo-Asia-Pacific (Harris Jr.). Kim Jung-Un is regularly ordering proactive and escalatory actions. He continues to harass and make his neighbors feel that their country is in danger. He and his regime refuse to abide by the norms of the international community (Harris Jr.). The regime’s irrational, unpredictable behavior is a danger to the region. This begs the question can a U.S. led effort quell North Korean provocation in the region. With its large military presence in the region along with its many regional partners the U.S. has the ability to restrain North Korea. With the use of military deterrence the U.S. can deter future North Korean provocation.

North Korea’s threats have taken a toll on not only the United States but countries around the world. Nuclear accessibility has caused them to take their threats to a whole new level which has the potential to annihilate the democratic world we live in today. Just this year, “North Korea threatened a nuclear strike on “the heart of the US” if it attempts to remove Kim Jong Un as Supreme Leader” (North Korea). North Korea is not the only threat we face either. Countries across the globe have access to nuclear weapons which can be launched at any given time. In 1987, during the prime of the Cold War, “The USSR alone controlled 40,000 nuclear warheads” (32, Katherine). Luckily today, through treaties passed by international governmental organizations

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

North Korea (NK) is the greatest Hybrid Threat (HT) to the United States (US) because of NK’s capability of employing missiles, cyber-attacks, criminal elements, Special Operations Forces (SOF), and conventional forces (CF) to create scalable challenges at the strategic, operational and tactical levels. Training Circular 7-100 defines HT as, “the diverse and dynamic combination of regular, irregular, and terrorist forces, criminal elements, or a combination of those forces and elements all unified to achieve mutually benefitting effects.” NK can create strategic diversions, challenges, and deterrence through the threat of development and/or use of its WMD/missile program.

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.

The fourth challenge to unite these two countries is their conflicts. This conflict is start from 1950 to1953. North Korea forces invaded South Korea in 1950 because, at that time both government want to unite these two states (Wikipedia, List of border incidents involving North Korea, 2015). The Korean War began as a civil war between North and South Korea, but the conflict soon became international when, under U.S leadership, the United Nations joined to support South Korea and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) entered to aid North Korea. The Korea war ends when a ceasefire agreement is signed in July 1953 (Wikipedia, Ceasefire, 2015). Finally, North Korean leader King Li Sung decided to invade to South Korea. 2million people died during in the war. The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMN) is created to separate the two countries. Indeed, they got cease fires agreement but they have many

North Korea has threatened freedom and prosperity in the eastern hemisphere for the past 25 years. In the last 5 years, the United States has been specifically targeted by this unstable nation. North Korea possesses the missile power to be able to send nuclear warheads across the Pacific Ocean to the United States. The United Nations (U.N.) has placed new sanctions on North Korea trying to slow down their research. Their leader, Kim Jong-Un, responded by saying that they will retaliate “thousands of times” against Washington D.C. (Campbell). Several important questions have surfaced due to North Korea possessing nuclear weapons; what kind of destruction can occur if nuclear weapons were launched? How has the corrupt government in North Korea expanded this issue? Finally, how will the United States and the U.N. stop this escalating problem? With the ongoing threat of North Korea, one must realize anew the danger of nuclear weapons.