Problem of North Korea

North Korea has been labeled as a mysterious state as the country is secluded from the rest of the world. The Democratic People 's Republic of Korea is a small country with a population of 25 million and is under a communist model of power. The country has been under control of the Kim dynasty since 1948, it began with Kim Il-Song and since then they have remained in power to this current day. The leaders are plastered all over the city of Pyongyang, with statues and murals on the wall and with the citizens wearing pins with the previous leaders to show their dedication to the regime. The city itself is a front to demonstrate a dynamic and advanced country. The regime has been successful for years, regardless of the fact that the government is repressive and the numerous violations of human rights. After the mismanagement of the famine crisis, which resulted in possibly millions of deaths. How is it possible for the regime to be still intact, especially when so many countries before them, have failed. The regime has successfully indoctrinated children at a young age through their education system, the barricading of information and their implanting of fear among the population.

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

Previously, the United States had created a defense perimeter that bordered Korea in order to protect Japan from communism. The US saw North Korea’s invasion as a direct threat so the country immediately sent 250,000 men to try to reunify Korea. Near the beginning of the conflict, North Korea pushed the South Koreans all the way to the southern border of Korea with the help of Soviet soldiers. In response the United States sent more soldiers and began nuclear threats. We were able to push North Korea back across the original border and end the conflict with a

The Korean peninsula was split into two parts, North Korea which was lead by a communist party, and South Korea, which wasn’t led by communists. According to Stratfor Worldview, The US’s initial plan was to simply blockade and avoid invasion. Later, they figured out that there plan wasn’t going to work out. Pyongyang

Both the North Koreans and the Russians wanted to overthrow South Korea to expand their empire. Above all, Russia had a chance to oppose its economic and military rival, the United States. North Korea, armed with Soviet tanks, boats, planes, and guns, planned a surprise attack across the 38th parallel into South Korea. Late Saturday evening on June 24, 1950, president Henry Truman got a urgent phone call. Truman was informed that a well organized and many pronged invasion of South Korea by the North Koreans was under way. The U.S. was obliged to defend South Korea.7

The two countries United States would most likely work with would be United Kingdom and Canada. United Kingdom shares large economic trade relations. United Kingdom and United States are founders of United Nations, NATO, World Trade Organization and the G-8 (About.com News & Issues). Both these countries fall into the permanent five seats that United Nations holds (About.com Education). Canada is the second country which would provide aid to united states at the time of the invasion. Canada has a strong military and is our neighbouring country in which they can support us to gain a democratic government in North Korea. Canada, proposed the Controlled Engagement Policy which limits their relations with North Korea because of their violent acts (Canada). Canada also is

President Rhee, with the United Nations forces on the offensive, wanted to take this opportunity to reunite the two countries into one unified Korea with himself as the leader. Popular opinion from the U.S. and UN was on his side and the decision to fight on was made. On October 7, 1950, the UN’s mission was changed from containing the North Korean army above the 38th Parallel to pushing them and Communism out of the Korea once and for all. U.S. President Harry S. Truman was still cautious about the new decision and was worried that the war would spread. He gave General MacArthur new instructions to destroy the North Korean Army as long as the Soviet and Chinese armies did not enter the war. Truman also required MacArthur to use South Korean

The UN was tasked to act quickly with an arrangement to give backing to South Korea

Focus was shifted back to the “traditional geographic area of interests.” Around the same time period, United States and Soviet troops withdrew from both Koreas. The Soviet Union left a well-trained North Korean Army, along with aircraft and armor. Conversely, the Republic of Korea’s (South Korea) army was left with little training and light weapons from the United States. Yet, the United States did not completely abandon South Korea. They established a secret intelligence office in the capital that was responsible for collecting information on North Korea and their army. The reports provided by the Korean Liaison Office were used to help develop the CIA’s analytic reports. The analytic reports claimed that North Korea was a puppet to the Soviet regime and that the Soviet Union was the “controlling hand behind all North Korean political and military planning.” The reports established a theme that North Korea was controlled by the Soviet Union and would not attack without their assistance, essentially following the Soviet Union’s military precept of centralized control and centralized execution. With agreement from both China and the Soviet Union, North Korean started building up troops and equipment near the 38th parallel. Yet, the United States discounted the information due to the preconceived notion that North Korea was incapable of

The change in regime will not be over night, it will take support from the citizens of North Korea to effectively change government. The support of citizens will be the factor that pushes this change either to fail or succeed. Without support the regime will ultimately revert into a dictatorship, but with support of twenty-five million residents the coup d’état will be an effective change into democracy. Using a resource the United States already has trained and prepared for situations comparable to North Korea, Seal Team Six, the cost would already be in the budget for the Department of Defense (Department of Defense, 2017). As well, with thirty thousand troops stationed in South Korea, the United States is prepared if actions of the seal team do not go as planned.

3). If we get really serious about helping the people of north korea we could cause a stir of truth so that people who are blinded could change their minds and for the benefit of their people and families, make the choice to live better lives.

On 25 June 1950, North Korea forces launched a surprise invasion on South Korea under the command of Kim Il-sung and the North Korean People’s Army. During this time, the North Korean People’s Army forced through the 38th parallel and pushed through the unprepared Republic of Korea forces to the Southeast Pusan peninsula. The approximately 125 mile defensive perimeter was where United Nation forces withdrew to by August, 1950 and held that Southeast position of the peninsula. While UN forces were outnumbered, commanders were in search for a new course of action that would help skew the war in favor of them. It was then General of the Army Douglas MacArthur first envisioned his plan for what would become the Battle of Inchon.

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

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 negotiations talking on the nuclear threaten and the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula has recently shaped the agenda of North Korean system of international relations, thus affecting the patterns of foreign policy of the DPRK. This issue has gained such a priority to lead to the establishment of the 6PT experiment, thus proving to stand at the core of the debate on the stability and safety debate in the Northeast Asia region.