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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In my essay I will focus on this dual analysis of the content and form of the major patterns of strategic geometry and their change over time from Cold War to post Cold War. ... the Cold War era The Cold War system of international relations was a geopolitical intermixing of security, ideology and the balance of power, especially military power. ... Sino-Soviet-North Korean triangle 3. ... The great post-war exception was the Soviet-US-Japan triangle. ... However, our emphasis is on the usefulness of the concept for studying the "transition" from Cold War to post Cold War. ...

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Why Japan and Russia go to war in 1904-05 is a one of the most dispute topics in 20th century. ... Yamagata and some of his colleagues had clearly felt that it was parts of new Japan's destiny to express its strength in East Asia, and it will be remembered that as early as 1872 there were plans to invade Korea and early aggressive war to China in 1894, then followed by an expedition to Korea an China to open ports for Japanese trade as treaty statement. ... "The Russo Japanese War" World book Multimedia Encyclopedia, 1997 edition. 2 December 2000 invade Port Arthur, Manchuria and Korea....

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Another area of containment was taking place in the Koreas. North Korea supported communism, however, South Korea supported capitalism. Without warning, North Korea attacked the south but President Harry Truman vowed to defend South Korea. ... Luckily, the conflict was ended with no war and compromise was achieved quickly. ... If the Soviets tried to force communist views on the US, there would have been a high chance of conflict, war, or in the worst case scenario, nuclear war....

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The main antagonisms leading to the Cold War rose almost simultaneously with the birth UN; the very nature of the antagonisms was deeply ideological: one could pragmatically put it as a US vs. ... When the Korean War broke in 1950, the Security Council consisted only of pro-western powers, since the USSR was boycotting the UN as a response to the US' refusal in 1949 to recognize Mao's PRC. ... A latter Anglo-French resolution for an unified command to fight in Korea was passed as a result of a lack of soviet veto. ... The same happened when the Security Council's resolution to w...

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China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam. China has been Communist since 1949, Cuba since 1961, Laos since 1975, North Korea since 1948, and Vietnam since 1976. ... This was one of the causes of the Cold War. ... Eventually the countries went to war. ... Nobody really knows how the war ended or who won. ...

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Cold War, a term used for the period of tense relations between the United States and the Soviet Union, stretching from the late 1940s to the late 1980s when Communism collapsed in Eastern Europe and the USSR ceased to exist. The two superpowers faced each other as leaders of conflicting political, economic and ideological alliances; became engaged in a nuclear arms race; and fought surrogate wars with each other in various locations in the Third World, from Korean, to Cuba and to Afghanistan. ... Another main reason was that there was a long history of mistrust between the two countries The ...

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The United States and the Soviet Union became the two superpowers of the post - World War II era. ... The Cold War has brought around all the new kinds of weapons, propaganda and a permanent threat of use of the weapons of mass distraction, several so called, "proxy wars" took place, where the rivalry between capitalists and communists resulted in the real fights on the other states territories, when the US and the Soviet Union supported different sides in the Civil Wars, for example Berlin Crises, Korean War, Cuban missile crises, Vietnam and Afghanistan wars. ... Although, I personally wo...

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The basic premises of the new alignment of the world developed in the final stages of the war. ... Differences between the former Allies after it was generally uniting them during the war aim, moved to another plane. ... In addition, the United States played in the war, and as the largest creditor of the coalition, which after the war proved to be financially dependent on the United States. ... The establishment of the ruined economy of the country also participated huge army of prisoners of war. However, by 1945 the country was far from the pre-war economic indicators. ...

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Background information: Before The War The Vietnam War, well known and brought up a lot in today's world as a comparison to the current Iraq war. ... Russia at that point had already expanded its empire into Eastern Europe, Korea and Cuba. ... Being that it was the Vietcong's homeland, they were in the better position to win this war. ... That was a bad time for Richard Nixon, having to control the Vietnam War that Johnson had started. ... The Government of America, noticed how people felt about this war, and started to make instant plans for the withdraw. ...

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The Threat of a Nuclear War Many things relating to nuclear proliferation have changed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. ... Some would say that the threat of a nuclear war has gone down in today's post Soviet society. ... The threat of a nuclear war is greater now that the cold war is over because, more nations have nuclear warheads, the smuggling of nuclear materials is on the rise, and nuclear treaties are ineffective. ... Russia has sold many of its nuclear weapons to North Korea to help regain economic stability. (5) The worldwide proliferation of nuclear warheads has made ...

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Importance of War: It is undeniable that the Russo-Japanese War was hugely significant in Russian history as the defeat in this highlighted the key flaws in Tsar Nicholas II's leadership and invalidated its reputation as a global powerhouse. Reasons for Entering the War It initially entered the War over control of Mancuria and Korea as Russia wanted more power and land expansion. ... The Effects of War The more profound effect of the War was the shift in Russia's, and most importantly the Tsar's, reputation. ... Aside from this, many aspects of Russian life were affected ...

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After the war, the Bolsheviks renamed themselves the Communist Party, and declared Russia the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. ... Meanwhile, World War II was fast approaching. ... But he wanted to avoid war at all costs, and in 1939 he signed the Nazi- Soviet Pact, which pledged that the two dictatorships would not attack one another, and granted Stalin permission to take over the Baltic States and eastern Poland, and prosecute a war in Finland. ... The Cold War had begun. ... He gave Kim Il Sung of North Korea the go-ahead to start the Korean War in 1950, and launched a new series of ...

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1.0 Introduction The international security has been shifted by the tectonic geopolitical role of cold war. ... In fact, Putin has intensified the cold war between the west and Russia that risk Russia losing it international reputation. ... Akiyama and Horio (2013) allude that the treaty has suffered challenges of violation by covert nuclear activities by other nations such as Libya, Iran and North Korea and Syria. ... Moreover, the defection of North Korea in their ambition to acquire intercontinental ballistic missile constitutes a challenge toward nuclear disarmament. ... Pakistan, Iran a...

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A number of states have not signed up to this convention Egypt, Libya, North Korea, and Syria for example. ... When India tested a nuclear explosion, Pakistan answered immediately with a test resembling an almost Cold War standoff. ... The U.S. government point of view has been that the new ABM system will be focused on shooting down limited attacks from "rogue- nuclear states, considered to be North Korea, Iran#. ... -USSR nuclear deterrent perspective and would bring back the balance of power seen in the Cold War. The Cold War between the United States and Russia lasted nearly 60 years witho...

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The Crimean War (1853-1856) showed Russian weakness and backwardness that led to the defect. ... The Crimea war revealed Russia weakness and the importance to modernize to win future wars. ... Happening at the same time as the great world war 1914-1918, Russia however pulled out of the war, due to its unpopularity amongst the public. ... The war with Poland 1921-22 was won by help from France but also due to the NEP. ... Cold war/ Korean War 1945-65- As a counterbalance of NATO, the Soviet Union made the Warsaw Pact in 1955.   ...

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For example, 30 years ago, South Korea was as poor as Ghana. ... C2: Globalism avoids the harms of statism Sub A: Statism produces war When a statist, sovereign attitude is accepted and united globalistic effort is tossed out harms soon follow because the nationalistic attitude creates conflicts of interest and ultimately wars. ... Statism needs war; a free country does not. ... Observe that the major wars of history were started by the more controlled economies of the time against the freer ones. ...

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Zhukov's first victory was the Battle of Khalkan-Gol, fought in July and August, 1939, near Nomonhan, Mongolia, as part of the undeclared war with Japan. In April 1939 the 23rd Division of the Kwantung Army moved to its new target, Outer Mongolia; with orders to cross into Nomonhan, a deserted and disputed sector on the Manchukuo-Korean-Mongolian border. ... The greatest air battles yet seen were taking place, with formations of 150-200 war planes deployed. ... The war had embarrassed Japan in many ways. ... The Battle of Stalingrad was the decisive World War II Soviet victory that s...

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In the Cold War period there existed an 'invisible wall' in the Sea of Japan. The Cold War ended about 10 years ago. Although a tense atmosphere remains in the Korean Peninsula, people's comings and goings and cultural exchange between Japan and Russia have remarkably increased since then. ... The another aspect relates to the end of the Cold War. ...

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Considering that he shaped the direction of post-World War II Europe, we may regard him as the most powerful person to live during the 20th century. ... Stalin argued strongly for the continuation of the war and for cooperation with the Provisional Government. ... Stalin had initially argued against the treaty, agreeing with Trotsky that Russia could declare itself withdrawn from the war without having to sign any sort of diplomatic agreement. ... Russia was in the midst of a civil war between the Bolsheviks and a number of opponents (including a considerable number of foreign cadres--among ...

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Geopolitical challenges of China nowadays are directly connected with the perspective of becoming a superpower. That is why in order to investigate Chinese status it is necessary to elaborate on Chinese geopolitical environment its conditions and prospects. During centuries geopolitics of China was ...

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