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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

In the United States, we encounter quite a bit of obstacles that we can’t seem to get rid of completely. We as a nation deal with inflation, unemployment, stagflation, recessions, depressions, and so much more. Reading these three articles opened my eyes to the world of economics, and even made me question the society we live in. I’ve learned that sometimes questions can’t be answered, and I learned that once we solve one issue, there is always another issue on its way. These articles made me analyze, and think about the future of economics, and what I can do to try and help the economy. These authors of these three articles make it very clear that there are issues in the United States, and they do an amazing job

The United States is not only one of the largest economies in the world, but it is also one of the strongest economies compared to industrialized countries, and this has been proven in the last few years. Despite of what many people believe or see, U.S economy is booming and it will continue to boom during the year 2015. In the article “When the U.S Economy is the Envy of the World,” published by the MSNBC on December 8, 2014, its author Steve Benen argues about the U.S economic recovery in order to persuade U.S citizens and show them the numbers that prove that our economy has recovered. Benen (2014) also encourage U.S citizens not “to compare the current economic recovery to other recoveries that followed modern downturns,” but “to compare our economic recovery against other countries who dealt with similar circumstances” because according to President Obama, the U.S “has put more people back to work” than any advanced economy in the world (qtd. in Benen, 2014). There are strong evidences that prove that the U.S economy is in its best year compared to three years ago. The growth of jobs, the slight increase of wages, and the low price of oil have truly helped the U.S economy recover.

After all accusations that North Korea made against the South Korea, the U.S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has backed South Korea’s call for North Korea “to come forward with the facts about this act of aggression and above all, stop its belligerence and threatening behaviour.” U.S President Barack Obama made a decision according to South Korea concern adopting a newly aggressive military attitude towards its neighbour; he had directed military commanders to work with South Korean troops to make sure readiness and to deter future aggression from North Korea.

Americans are revolting in the primaries by either voting for Trump or supporting Sanders because they don’t believe the American economy is fine. Unemployment is at an eight-year low but labor force participation is down. There has been six years of uninterrupted growth but at a pace that won’t close the economy’s output gap until 2026. Wage growth is getting higher but not by much. Statistics like these explain why the 2007 – 2009 recession is still present in the electoral scene.

Pyongyang and Beijing have been having a rough time especially after China arrested Zhou Yongkang, who was China’s third most powerful politician and when Jang Song-thaek, who was the second powerful man in North Korea, was executed. Since these men were both in charge of relations between Pyongyang and Beijing, North Korea and China were left with no way to calm the rising tensions between them. Now that Russia and China are focusing on their own struggles, they aren’t able to continue protecting Pyongyang. With North Korea fearing attack, there was a need to gain a new political relationship that could help North Korea’s economic recovery and guarantee survival---this being the United States.

In the December 19, 2008, Smart Money Editorial, the article “Current Recession Is no Great

The article, “Don’t Underestimate North Korea’s Nuclear Arsenal,” was featured in The Wall Street Journal, a center-right publication, on 2/27/2017. R. James Woolsey, is a democrat government official who served as the Director of the CIA, and was once a senior advisor for President Trump (Rucker, 2017). Peter Pry is a co-author to the piece. Pry served in the CIA, and is the chief of staff of the Congressional EMP Commission. (Woolsey & Pry, 2017) Evaluating the piece with the critical eye does not yield great results. Among the many elements of the critical eye that raise red flags, accuracy is the weakest.

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.

Looking at the Bush administration’s policy toward North Korea prior to the North Korean nuclear missile test in 2006, there was a shift in the US signaling strategy. Signaling is “to communicate a credible deterrent threat through diplomatic or military actions” . In the beginning years in the office, the Bush administration had a hard line policy, but later years before 2006, the US pursued “softer” policy. By analyzing the shift in the signaling process, I want to look at what role does the US key decision maker’s “experience” play in making the consequential decisions in the policy toward North Korea. Also, I want to examine depending on the level of experiences of the policymakers, how does the signaling process change in crisis bargaining and what’s the response from North Korea

The Korean peninsula has been a volatile area since the end of World War II. Today it is the last example of a single nation divided between two states, represents the longest division of ideologies, and is the archetype of enduring Cold War symptoms. Although small in size, The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) has been the biggest obstacle to regional stability in Asia, its militant and hostile policies posing a threat not only to western aligned nations, but also to its former and present benefactors, Russia and China. This dangerous country represents a very important target for the United States’ Intelligence Community, an extremely difficult one to exploit, but one that cannot be ignored as North Korea’s ambitions

While researching the macroeconomic phenomena unemployment, I chose to analyze an article that addresses issues that arise when measuring it. The article titled, “U.S. Unemployment at 16-Year Low, but Economy’s Weak Spots Remain”, discussed how unemployment is falling but wage growth and a declining labor force showed our economy’s troubled areas. Some of the data featured in this article was collected by sources such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics, multiple chief economists, and government officials. This article points out shortcomings of the data collected, a large portion being due to who’s reviewing it. One example is problems arising because of the declining wage growth. Doubters argue that if the labor

I found Roy’s argument that a North Korean nuclear ICBM would not be a major game changer convincing because the author has clearly outlined the cost and benefits of four possible policies in dealing with the North Korean nuclear and missile program.

For this paper, we chose to look at articles pertaining to the United States and South Korea Missile Treaty and how they have been working to revise it. We chose articles from CNN, Reuters, and the Chosun Ilbo. All three articles are presenting the same facts about the subject, but they all present it in a different way.

It can be said that in the case of the USA and North Korea, the current tensions developed further because of the start of nuclear weapons programmes in North Korea which created panic in US government (Pevehouse and Goldstein, 2017, p. 31). Realism highlights how this shift in the balance of power threatens US security as they are no longer a more