Korea was under rule of Japan at the end of the Second World War. ... In June 1950 he launched a full-scale military invasion of South Korea, thereby starting the Korean War. ... In July 1953 an armistice agreement signed by the UN, North Korea, and China ended the fighting of the Korean War. Without a formal peace treaty, however, North Korea and South Korea technically remained at war. ... South Korea made a slow recovery from the war. ...

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On June 25 1950 North Korea crossed the thirty-eighth parallel, officially invading South Korea, and marking what has been recorded historically as the beginning of the Korean War. ... This different stance argues that the Korean War was more of a Korean civil war, which has its roots in circumstances on the Korean Peninsula that began at least five years before the official dates that the conflict began. ... The letter is a warning that there " is a possibility of a civil war developing between the communist and nationalist factions in Korea (Lee 2001:6). In this light, the factors that he...

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North Korea ironically also known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a totalitarian country. ... North Korea is constantly in conflict with other nations, and was almost the reason for World War III, through the Korean War. According to history.com, The Korean War began when approximately 75,000 soldiers crosses the 38th parallel to invade what was soon to be known as South Korea. ... Following the Korean War, a demilitarized zone was set up and was the site of many discussions of peace. The Soviets supported the war, and thrived on this invasion by backing North Korea. ...

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As tensions between South and North Korea have greatly risen since death of the former leader of North Korea, Kim Jung-Il, his son, Kim Jong-Eun, successfully took over the power in place. ... As a South Korean, it's always a blemish to identify myself as a South Korean every time and furthermore, it's such an irony to see my home country divided. ... That being said, I feel dreadful to see posts in Korean forums that sometimes make me go nuts reading about blemishing subjects that often end up in a flaming war regarding how Koreas should never be reunited. ... Would the reunificatio...

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After the cold war had ended, the world had transitioned from bipolarity to a world of many independent nations fighting for hegemony. ... According to the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), Korea has allied with the United States ever since the nuclear war and has abandoned its nuclear weapons program. South Korea has also signed the Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula along with North Korea. Although North Korea has clearly violated this declaration, South Korea has called on the North to abide by the declaration. ... South Korea would look for a resolution that e...

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North Korea promised a "catastrophe" if the drills were conducted and South Korea answered that it would strike back harder than it did last month if it were attacked again (Lederer). ... The US, along with others on the 15-nation body including Britain and France, demanded that the council put the blame solely on North Korea for the November 23rd attack on Yeonpyeong and the March 26th sinking of the South Korean warship Cheonan by a North Korea torpedo. ... The North Korean ambassador, Sin Son-ho, warned that if war broke out it would not be confined to the peninsula and could easily sprea...

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Since 1910, Korea had been under control of the Japanese government. ... North Korea remained under control of the Soviet Union, while South Korea was given to the United States. ... Although the U.S. had begun to withdraw troops from Korea as early as 1948, they were forced to remain, as communist North Korea threatened to invade South Korea. ... Due to a multitude of reasons, the United States suddenly found themselves on the verge of a war against Communism on Korean soil. ... This internal pressure was a direct result of the intense tensions revolving around cold war era politics. ...

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Kim Jong Un, dictator of North Korea, routinely executes North Korean citizens who deviate from his brand of communism, in order to create the perfectly submissive country, which is his definition of a Utopian society. ... Other propaganda leads the general populace to believe that the US is the war-mongering enemy and North Korea would annihilate them if threatened. ... " Big Brother perfected the propaganda machine where comrades were conditioned by such deceptive slogans as "War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength." ... In the novel the outer party members are fed expi...

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The increasing discussion of cyber warfare would come as no surprise to anyone: cyberattacks on components of US defence cyber-infrastructure, and the probable strategic, military cyberattacks by Russia on Estonia, then on Georgia, and probable attacks by China, North Korea, and Iran on US defence and economic targets. ... For example North Korea denying hacking into computer systems at Sony pictures in retaliation for a film depicting the country's leader. ... This is of extremely dissimilar from all traditional weapons of war. ... Within hours of the start of the Russia-Georgia war, Aug...

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However, according to the IFEX, countries such as North Korea (97), Burma (96), Turkmenistan (96), Libya (96) Cuba (96), Uzbekistan (91), Syria (83), etc. abide by a strict censorship and discourage free speech because they all score a press freedom index between 61-100 (World Audit, 2015). ... I realized a trend based on geographical location as North Korea of Asia came up with the highest score in the press freedom index – meaning that North Korea have the least room for free speech among all the 186 countries used in the survey. ... The GDP per capita (USD) of countries where free spe...

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