Government of South Korea

II, Korea was split into two parts, North Korea and South Korea. North Korea was occupied by the communist country of USSR while South Korea was held by the Americans and other democratic nations. War officially broke out on June 25, 1950, when the North Koreans assaulted across the country's division on the 38th Parallel with their men and artillery behind them. North Korea and its leaders wanted to unify the whole country from its division by taking over South Korea under their government. North

North Korea has become “increasingly reliant on international aid from NGOs, South Korea and the UN to feed its people” (Poverty & Famine, 2012). After the famine began, the South elected a liberal president who was “keen to build peace with the ‘sister country’” (Poverty & Famine, 2012). This actually helped to rebuild and bond the two countries’ trust. Since then, however, things have changed. After George W. Bush changed policies along with South Korea’s new and more conservative president from

of the world prior to World War II, its foreign policy was one of detachment. The government was determined not to get involved in other countries affairs barring unusual circumstances. A World War provided big enough means to become involved, as many Americans became enraged with the military ambitions of Japan and Germany. Following World War II, Soviet leader Stalin initially agreed to a democratic government in Poland and to free elections in other Soviet-occupied countries, but he ignored

Berlin was divided and each dominated by a sector of the Allied Powers: Soviet Union, United States, Britain and France (Doc 3a). East Berlin was controlled under a communist rule by the Soviet Union, while West Berlin was governed under a democratic government. Winston Churchill additionally enhanced the idea of the Iron Curtain being that it represented an invisible line that separated the democratic countries of Western Europe from the communist countries of Eastern Europe. The Soviet Union built the

2200 01M 30 September 2015 Country Study: North Korea North Korea, also referred to as “The Hermit Kingdom”, has gained great publicity and news coverage for its unorthodox nature and borderline reckless politics. This extremely militarized and sequestered nation is one of the last powerful totalitarian nations left and it is for this reason so much interest is being placed on this country. With its newly acquired arsenal of nuclear weapons, North Korea will soon find itself heading into chaos or learning

North Korea is one of the few countries that maintain communist system in the world. After Kim Il-Sung died in 1994, who was a dictator for nearly 50 years, the North Korean government has lost its power on the people. Since then, communist system has collapsed and economic crisis has been aggravated. Also the food crisis in 1990s caused famine across the country. For these reasons, a lot of North Korean people have tried to escape from their home country or hide themselves in China. The number of

recommendation should consider the past, the current, and the future victims of the government violating human rights covenants and norms. That is, from those who have been already accused of criminals to those who will be on trial due to individual’s conscious, religion, or belief, new policies for conscientious objectors should encompass all. Therefore, as Amnesty International has asserted, the first thing the government should do is to release all imprisoned conscientious objectors immediately, and

indirectly by people who have their sovereignty, so it has the laws to protect citizens’ rights. Most countries in the world adopt democracy, and so do United States and South Korea. However, it doesn’t mean that not both countries’ laws are same. There are some similar and different points between United States and South Korea in their laws to protect individual rights. There are five similar points in their laws. First of all, the First Amendment and the Article 21 of Korean Constitution are about

had no interest in Korea as it had no geopolitical significance. Korea having been divided after WWII as a result of Japanese occupation, was occupied in the northern half by Chinese communist forces. Following Acheson 's decleration that the US did not posess interest in the Korean pennisnular, the North Korean Communist government in Pyongyang orchestrated an attack on Southen Korea. North Korean forces, backed by the Soviet Union, outgunned the weaker and ill prepared South Korea, pushing them to

The rise of communism caused the Second Red Scare in the United States. Americans urged the United States government to put a stop to the spread of communism. Although the United States won the war and took 27,000,000 Soviet Union soldiers and civilians, this would not be an easy task. Joseph Stalin was determined to build a world power using his other allied communist countries like North Korea and China. Knowing this, the United States developed the containment policy. The US contained communism