...Mr. Trump, I am here to inform you about our relations with the communist regime of North Korea. Their nuclear weapons have been in production and tested since 2008 ( Fitzpatrick 5-6 ). It has been nine years since the start of the test and there are no signs in reducing its production and use. These weapons of mass destruction can destroy a single country and it could be the spark of a new world war. Ever since the victory of the allies after World War 2, Korea was divided into two countries. The North side became a communist country as for the south, it became democratic. The regime up in the north have been living in isolation from the world and is known as the “ hermit kingdom “ ( Fitzpatrick 7 ). The United States at the time was very anti-communism. They wanted to stop the spread of communism by helping east Asian countries. They had successfully stop communism from spreading into South Korea but failed with Vietnam. Because we successfully stopped communism from spreading into South Korea, we were able to become allies with them causing the North to show signs of animosity....
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...impact of foreign involvement on North Korea’s foreign policy and isolation: North Korea is, as stated by Bruce Cummings in North Korea – Another Country, “The Author of most of its own troubles”. The country is close to entirely isolated from the rest of the world maintaining only small contact with certain nations. Since the ceasefire of the Korean War, North Korea has become increasingly detached from the majority of the world; however what factors have led to this increased isolation? The heavy bombing of the North during the war, the continued existence of missiles aimed at the North, the fall of the Soviet Union, the Carter and Clinton governments steps on reconciliation with North Korea and the Bush Governments seemingly polaric policy re-opening tension with the nation, have all played a role in North Korea’s isolation but to what extent? The Korean War was, as the Cold War of the same era, an ideological clash between the two main systems, Communism and Democracy. The North, as a communist country, was an enemy of the United States in this Ideological Clash however the Korean War was, as stated by Bruce Cummings in his 2004 novel, North Korea – Another Country, “A War fought by Koreans for Korean goals”. Bruce Cummings is the most prominent western historian to write about North Korea and several of his books are on required reading lists for subjects at the Korean University in Seoul. Cummings presents a sympathetic view to North Korea’s scenario as a “hermit kingdom”...
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...Supportability from a strategy formulation perspective of United States policy options for North Korean nuclear and strategic missile capabilities 16 February 2014 Benjamin J. McClellan CPT, USAR North Korea’s nuclear and strategic missile capabilities present grave challenges to regional security. Pyongyang’s propensity to export its weapons also threatens the global non-proliferation regime. Despite economic impoverishment and an inability to feed its people, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea remains heavily armed and ready to fire first. Its recent and continued military provocations demonstrate the potential for resumed conflict on the Korean Peninsula. Policymakers must determine the appropriate manner to address these threats. Current considerations for policy options include containment of North Korean capabilities, destruction of North Korean capabilities without regime change, and compelling regime change in North Korea. This paper will offer analysis on each of these policy courses of action. The merits and drawbacks of each will be weighed against the ends, ways, means framework of strategy formulation, as well as the suitability, feasibility, acceptability risk model. For the purposes of this analysis, the stipulated end is elimination of North Korea’s nuclear and missile capability. North Korea’s Nuclear and Missile Capabilities As recently as July 2013, North Korea is believed to possess between four and eight nuclear weapons. Pyongyang claims that this...
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...Proposal Literature Review: The title of my research is why the United State persisted to solve the North Korean nuclear issue with means of negotiation and pressure rather than military force since 1990s. In Chapter one of the dissertation, a comprehensive history of the North Korean issue would be presented. In this part, the background as well as the process of the North Korea’s nuclear issues development would be presented in detail. Pyongyang decided to started nuclear project with the previous experience and technology it could get due to its increasing sense of isolation and threat from the United State since 1970s. However, American was aware of its ambitions and prevented North Korea from going nuclear through dialogue and normalization of U.S.-North Korean relations. In 1990s, North Korea was persuaded into nuclear nonproliferation obligations as well as Denuclearization Declaration. (Wit, 2004) In1993, the first nuclear crisis out broke with North Korea’s announcement of its intension to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. This movement had increased tension among the countries in Asia. In 2003, the first Six-Party Talk started in Beijing including China, South Korea, Japan, Russia and the United State, which was the negotiation to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue. (Rinehart, 2013) The attitude of North Korea was still tough that the announcement of its ownership of nuclear weapons in 2005 resulted in the second nuclear crisis. The...
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...were not completely addressed by Sri Lankan foreign policy and the recent atrocities against Tamil provoked the Tamilnadu state to pressurize the central government though this is Sri Lanka internal policy but in its foreign policy they couldn’t relate to the sentiments of Tamil people in India. The Indian government did not attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) Summit which was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The protest of the Sri Lankan Government towards the Tamils of Sri Lanka forced the Prime minister of India to stay away from the CHOGM summit. The long civil war with Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Sri Lanka did not patch up the relations between Sri Lanka and Tamilnadu and Tamil people forced Prime minister of India to boycott CHOGM. 2. Somalia’s foreign policy influenced by Muslim fundamentalism - In Somalia, the foreign policy of this country was influenced by Muslim fundamentalism and it became a safe haven for terrorists and pirates. The entire area around Somalia is under the influence of Militia and terrorist groups. These extremists were not taken care of by the Somalian government and the concern for Kenya was...
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...bordering China on the west and Russia, we find the infamous Korean Peninsula.The Korean peninsula consists of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) on the northern part of the peninsula and the Republic of Korea (ROK) on the south, dividing on the 38th parallel. The peninsula split up in the 1950s during the Korean War, which involved the Communist North against Democratic South Korea. As the Korean War broke out on the peninsula in 1950, the United Nations Security Council recognised North Korea’s act as an invasion. Due to the fact that North Korea ignored the United Nations’ call for a ceasefire, the United States, United Kingdom and many other nations sent forces towards the peninsula in order to defend South Korea. Although a cease fire agreement have been signed in July 1953, North and South Korea are technically still at war to this very day. Since the Korean War divided one nation, whom share the same culture, values and language, they were separated because of two enormous political ideology differences, that the leaders believed in. We can safely say the Korean War was an “Ideology War”. The North being more towards socialism / communism (left wing) and the South being a firm believer in a semi-western, democratic (right wing) ideology. There isn’t only different ideologies within the politics, but also economically and educationally are being influenced by this ideology. Often we ask ourselves whether we can see Korea as one again in the future...
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...importantly, the organized Reserve forces included tens of thousands of trained people, whose World War II experiences remained reasonably fresh and relevant. The Korean War lasted from 1950-1953. What happened in Korea pushed the boundaries of the Cold War towards 'Warm War'. Though America and Russia did not officially clash, client states did in that Communist China fought and was armed and encouraged by Russia. The peninsula was divided after World War Two into a Russian-backed north and the American-backed south .Each claimed the right to the other half in an effort to unify both. The division was the result of the occupation of Korea by the communists after the end of the war with the country eventually being divided at the 38th parallel. In June 1950, the North Koreans launched a surprise attack against the south and the capital Seoul fell in just three days. The United Nations Security Council) asked for UN states to send troops to the region under a UN flag. The huge bulk of the troops sent were American and command of them was given to Gen. Douglas MacArthur. General MacArthur chose to ignore his orders and advanced north towards the Chinese border at the Yalu River. This provoked the Chinese to launch a massive attack against the UN forces and South Korea. A Chinese army of 180,000 men supported by 100,000 reserves forced the UN troops to retreat and Seoul fell once again in January 1951 and the Chinese forces were halted only 60 miles...
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...___ 3 EXPLAINING CANADIANS’ VIEWS ON ASIA DETAILED FINDINGS ___________________________________________________________ 7 ____________________________________________________________________________________ 17 SECTION 1: PERCEPTIONS OF ASIA __________________________________________________________ 17 SECTION 2: VIEWS OF CANADA-ASIA ECONOMIC RELATIONS ____________________________ 23 SECTION 3: PROVINCIAL PERSPECTIVES ON CANADA-ASIA RELATIONS _______________ 31 SECTION 4: CANADA-ASIA ENERGY RELATIONS ___________________________________________ 35 SECTION 5: PROMOTING HUMAN RIGHTS IN ASIA ________________________________________ 39 SECTION 6: CANADA-ASIA SECURITY ISSUES ______________________________________________ 41 SECTION 7: DEMOGRAPHIC FINDINGS ______________________________________________________ 43 APPENDIX: READING THE TABLES _____________________________________________________________________ 49 NOP 2014 PG. 1 ABOUT THE ASIA PACIFIC FOUNDATION OF CANADA The Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) has been a leader in research and analysis on Canada’s relations with Asia for thirty years. Our mission is to develop ideas for action by Canadian businesses, governments, and individuals to help them seize the vast opportunities unfolding in Asia. We do this by offering clear,...
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...Russian Federation), and the islands of Japan. Because of the complex, shifting, and historic relations between these areas, as well as relations with other places such at the United Sates in more recent times, the history of Korea has been told in many ways and is still the subject of hot debate both inside and outside the Koreas. North and South Korea have different versions of the peninsula’s history, both of which differ in detail and perspective from histories written in China, Japan, Russia, and the USA. The following sections, which attempt to outline the history in a balanced way, are based on a variety of materials, including lectures attended in a special workshop on Korean culture at Korea University in the summer of 1997. Map of Korea The overall pattern of development in the history of the Korean peninsula is a process that begins with an unknown number of early tribal groups that populate the peninsula in prehistoric times, wandering out of Siberia and areas to the west. Over time, some of these groups form more complex societies that eventually result in early kingdoms that grow up on the peninsula; in some cases extending westwards into what is now Chinese territory. As time and events unfolded, these kingdoms were unified, though the borders and degree of unity have continued to change over time—down to today. Besides the obvious split between North and South Korea, cultural differences (including dialect, food, and local identity) exist between the various...
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...Battlefield with no Blood The Cold War was the elongated tension between the Soviet Union and the United States of America. It started in the mid 40's after WWII had left Europe in shambles and Russia and the USA in superpower positions. The Cold War was a clash of these super giants in political, ideological, military, and economic values and ideas. Though military buildup was great on both sides neither one ever directly fought each other. In this essay I'm going to bring forth the following points: Rise of the Cold War, events in and because of the Cold War, and the fall of Russia. Again Germany had been thwarted in its plans of total domination. It had been a combined effort by all the Western powers and a few Eastern powers too. England was devastated, France had been literally burnt to the ground, and many small nations had suffered economic failure. To the East Russia had suffered many losses from the vain siege of the Nazi's. But they were in better shape than Europe. They still had a military and a running, somewhat, economy. In the late 40's through early 50's the Soviet Union started to spread the Lenin ideological as it started moving in the Westward position. In 47 the US started funding the rebuilding of European infrastructure in a system called the Marshall Plan. Russia in turn brought forth its own funding called the Molotov Plan. Because of that, they were able to spread communism through many countries. Some of these nations were: Poland, Romania, Bulgaria...
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...North Korea (officially named the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, or DPRK) is a single-party Communist state in south-east Asia, ruled since 1949 by the Korean Workers' Party (KWP). Regarded by many in the international community as a pariah state (meaning that it is an outcast), North Korea has in recent years become increasingly poverty-stricken, with many of its citizens having barely enough food to survive. The KWP is kept in power largely thanks to a combination of international concern for North Korean citizens and the patronage of the Chinese government, which exports large quantities of food to North Korea in return for KWP assistance in certain areas. Until the 1990's, North Korea also received significant quantities of aid from Russia, but the fall of communism in that country led to this aid being almost entirely stopped, the catalyst for many of the recent problems in North Korea. It is widely speculated that North Korea's entire economy would collapse virtually instantly if China withdrew its current level of support. In almost every measure of prosperity, North Korea lags far behind most other countries. Barbara Demick points out in her book Nothing to envy: real lives in North Korea that "if you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea" (Demick, 2010, page 3). The country has a strong centrally-controlled economy that...
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...That cruel reality of a country called North Korea and the one man who is the absolute leader. Declare by his son as a god with over 34,000 statues. Even after death his ideology lives on with unimaginable living conditions at the cost of unrealistic human life. That brings the unanswerable question why the entire world is sitting down and watching what's happening for the past 65 years generation after generation without even coming up for one solution or action. To answer the question we need to understand what North Korea is. It came into existence as an inhuman country with a cruel history and grim future. Korea was an independent united country for much of its history. In 1910, Japan occupied the Korean peninsula. Korea spends 35...
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...The Soviets failed attempt to blockaded the Western-held sections of West Berlin; the United States and its European allies formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the unified military command to resist the Soviet excursions in Europe; the Soviets achieved atomic capabilities, ending America’s use of the threat of an atomic bomb attack; the communist Chinese came to power in mainland China; and the government of North Korea (Soviet backed) communist invaded South Korea (U.S. backed), starting the Korean War that lasted until 1953. The Berlin Crisis of 1961 was the last major conflict point in the Cold War, it was regarding the status of Berlin and post–War Germany. And then the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 brought the world closer to nuclear war than ever before. The crisis led to efforts at nuclear disarmament and improving relations. The Soviet war in Afghanistan, the Soviet Union sent thousands of military advisers to the PDPA government. The Peshawar Seven insurgents were train and given weapons in Pakistan and China, and weapons and billions of dollars from the United States, the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia. Soviet troops were deployed to stabilize Afghanistan under Karmal (Soviet selected leader). As a result...
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...how to behave. They are like bulls in a china shop. They are only 25 years old. We are over 100 and the British are centuries older. We have got to teach them how to behave.”-Harry Truman, 33rd President of the United States. The Cold War was a period of East-West competition, tension, and conflict short of full-scale war, characterized by mutual perceptions of hostile intention between military-political alliances or blocs. The U.S. struggle to contain Soviet communism worldwide resulted in what came to be known as the "Cold War". Although full-scale war between the U.S. and Soviet Union did not occur, two major wars, (Korea and Vietnam), and many smaller conflicts occurred between 1946 and 1991 over the battle between democracy and communism. The Cold war was a product of many social and political reasons, a few but not limited to: The portioning of North Korea and Germany, the Marshal Plan, the Berlin Blockage and NATO. I’ll begin my explanation with the Yalta Conference, held in Yalta in February 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill planned the final stages of World War II and agreed to the territorial division of Europe. “At Yalta, Roosevelt and Churchill discussed with Stalin the conditions under which the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan and all three agreed that, in exchange for potentially crucial Soviet participation in the Pacific theater, the Soviets would be granted a sphere of influence in Manchuria following Japan’s surrender” (Office of the...
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...Cultural Awareness of North Korea By SGT Anderson, Alvin, D. ALC Class 718-12 SSG Rockhold North Korean Cultural Awareness Outline Understanding and respecting cultural differences is critical to our success in the world forum. We cannot hope to be a successful, diplomatic military without cultural awareness. 1. What Is Culture? a. The Definition of Culture b. Characteristics of a Culture 2. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea c. About North Korea d. The Korean War 3. Juche e. Kim Il-sung f. The Effects of Kim Il-sung and Juche 4. Diplomacy With North Korea g. The Threat North Korea Poses h. Hope For the Future A diplomatic relationship with North Korea may not be possible at this time, But taking the time to get know and understand their culture and their angst against the US may help us further our relationship with them in the future. Alvin Anderson SSG Rockhold ALC 718-12 May 19, 2012 North Korean Culture What is culture? Culture is many things. Culture is almost everything. The word culture is very broad and encompassing. There is no simple, universally accepted definition for the word culture. It is by definition: the behavior and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic or age group. It is characterized a group of peoples’ traditions, religion, food, customs and language. Culture is dynamic. Culture is static. It both changes with the times and...
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