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    defined as the “the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group” (Merriam-Webster). Genocides have been committed throughout world history, but many countries fail to understand the cruelty of the North Korean Republic. Led by Kim Jong Un, North Korea has performed the five acts that characterize a genocide. The UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and Article 6 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court explains the five

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    be saved and now live in a free country. To be able now, to have basic freedoms like voting. South Korea and North Korea were once the same country. Then, war broke out because the two countries wanted to be ruled differently. South Korea wanted to be a capitalist republic and North Korea wanted to be communist. Soon, the country split up and is now two countries. The separation of North and South Korea affected the daily lives of South Koreans in three ways: politically, socially, and economically

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    received military and political training Soviet Union. Kim Il Sung also formed the provisional government in North Korea after Japanese’s surrender in World War II, through which he obtained authority in his political party—Korean Workers’ Party—and eventually became “The Great Leader”. (Higgins, Kim Il-Sung) Kim Il Sung also invented “Cult of Personality”, which was an organized effort to persuade North Koreans to worship him and to accept his

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    Tim Middendorf Professor Stephens 4-24-2017 Causal Analysis Essay North Korea Threatens War over Nuclear Ambitions Amid Growing tensions between the Unites States and North Korea over the North’s ambition to have and control nuclear weapons with the capability of reaching the continental United States. The world watches and waits for the start of what may be the next world war. As the Unites States searches for a diplomatic solution with the help of its allies in the area, the U.S. military stands

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    In North Korea at the moment there is a big amount of people in poverty and the government use all of their money on building nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles, shouldn’t they use the money to improve their living conditions and economy issue?I did some research on this topic of “Should North Korea be allowed to develop nuclear weapons and intercontinental missiles?” some of the questions that came along with that topic is what is North Korea making?, Who will they decide to attack?,

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    Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick is a narrative non-fiction novel that shows the importance of propaganda in a totalitarian regime. As the story unfolds, the six defectors leave North Korea because of the famine. Because the country ran out of food and fuel, they left in order to survive; it was never out of disloyalty to their country. Up until their departure, several of the defectors were loyal believers that North Korea was the best country in the world. North Korea still stands

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    Debates have been swirling around the international community over North Korea’s recent actions considered to be “Crimes against humanity” (Pearson, Hanna, and Park). When did North Korea start to have these issues and who is behind the crimes arguably equal to that of Nazi Germany? Was it during the reign of Kim ll-sung or Kim Jong-il? Arguments can be made that the crimes did start under the reign of these two leaders, but the real culprit behind the crimes against humanity is Kim Jong-un the current

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    Jong-Il was the leader of North Korea from the time his father Kim Sung-Il died in 1948 until his death in 2011. The Kim family remains in charge of North Korea with Kim Jong-Il's son Kim Jong-Un as it's leader. Kim Jong-Il and the other leaders in the Kim family have been made to look like gods and are praised by many in North Korea. I think that the Kim family will remain in power for a long time. I believe that if North Korea continues to be lead the way Kim Jong-Il lead it, North Korea will face a lot

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    North Korea does not have a modern judicial system and do not have religious freedom. North Korea had a civil war and had to split it state into different parts along the 38th parallel. The reason why they had a civil war was because the North Korean forced the South Korean’s people to fight in North Korea wars; the Kim dynasty rules over North Korea with absolute power, and despotic. The modern genocidal conflict in North Korea is similar to the Holocaust because it employs dehumanization, extermination

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    The belligerent nation known as North Korea doesn’t pose a global threat because their state of privacy and their display and distribution of arms. Many great leaders, have tactics of showing their threats, but many are hoaks and have been disproved. Isolation in history has proven to have many disadvantages in past history. North Korea doesn’t pose a global threat because of their isolation, the most biased nation is considerably North Korea, they have been proven time by time to provide incorrect

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