The government believes that in the ten years that North Korea had their reactor running that they were able to stockpile enough plutonium to build at least two nuclear bombs. ... Either a preemptive military strike to overthrow the leaders of their government or Diplomatic Measures such as U.N. inspectors or economic aid of some sort. ... Another advantage of non-military action is that Japan being on the U.N. can help a great deal. Japan and North Korea have had their problems over the years. From Japan's occupation of North Korea, to North Korea's kidnapping of dozens of Japanese ...

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The cause of the war was that Korea was under Japanese rule ever since the end of the Chinese-Japanese war in 1895. After World War II, in 1945, Korea was freed from Japan. ... Also, since South Korea had a dictatorship, we wanted to prevent it from becoming communist and remaining a dictatorial form of government. ... Our involvement began with Korea dates back to when we dropped the atom bomb in Hiroshima, Japan and the defeated Japanese gave up Korea. ... This upset the United States which wanted the region to have a democratic government, rather than the existing dictatorship. ...

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It has good economic relations with Japan, the Unites States, and China mainly and is member of many international economic organizations such as: APEC, OECD(Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), and WCO(World Commerce Organization). ... Korea was under rule of Japan at the end of the Second World War. After the successful landing of the USSR the United Stated emitted an order for Japan telling it to surrender the northern part of Korea from parallel 38 to the USSR ad the southern part to the Unites States. ... The government of the Republic of Korea is interested in promotin...

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Since 1910, Korea had been under control of the Japanese government. In 1945, the communist Soviet Union invaded North Korea, quickly forcing the Japanese to surrender. ... Backing his unwavering support of Syngman Rhee's government, and other free nations around the world, Truman said, "If we falter in our leadership, we may endanger the peace of the world -- and we shall surely endanger the welfare of our own nation" (Truman Doctrine, 1947). ...

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The Division of Korea (1945) As World War II was concluded, the Soviets and Americans made an agreement to divide Japanese occupied Korea into two regions: North and South. All Japanese troops North of the 38th parallel surrendered to the Soviets and all Japanese troops South of the 38th parallel surrendered to the Americans. ... They helped to establish a communist government and maintain the country. ... The U.S has the ability to use South Korea as a puppet state to benefit the U.S government. ...

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South Korea and Japan are good model for successful democratic countries that other countries can follow. ... So it will be good for non-democratic Asian countries to convert their governmental system to democracy. ... In democratic society like South Korean, before making an important decision, government hears lots of opinion from citizens and all decision is made by representatives of citizen. ... It is not a perfect system of government. ... But, as we can see much strength for citizen and government in democracy, and many countries are showing positive example of democratic counties, I ...

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This breakdown was in the most part caused by disorganization of the government since they had forgotten that the people are the true rulers of our country. Of course there is no way to keep all the population happy but the government could very easily avoided so many casualties. ... In Pearl Harbor a whole conflict was developed with Japan that lead to the obligatory use of the draft which only put 18 year olds on the front line without knowing anything about combat but to press the trigger when an enemy was in front of them. ...

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With their allies achieving victory in Japan and Europe, Korea was held under temporary control of Russia and the United States. ... The American government felt it was their duty as a democratic nation to stop the Soviet Union. ...

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Although the U.S. warships are on their way back to their Japanese bases, South Korean officials are already discussing the possibility of bringing the ships back for more exercises as early as the end of the month. ... South Korea's citizens are angered at the lack of response from their government. ...

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It took on a communistic approach in their choice of government and the 1st leader of this undeveloped nation was Kim Jong-il. ... Poverty is running rampant and the government is spending the money, not on its people, but on advancing their weapons to cause harm to others. ... Presumptuously, it was thought that the Iranian and North Koreans were planning on joining forces against the Japanese. ...

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Hong's famous Minjoong-style mural in North Korea will not be shown, although it still hangs in a North Korean government museum today. ... In Baridaegi, for example, Hong depicted the bitter plight of woman who was allegedly used as prostitute for the Japanese army during their occupation of Korea. ...

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., Russia, China, Japan, North and South Korea; however the North wants to talk to the U. ... With a strict denial of dignity in international affairs, it is thought that the North Korean government would have nowhere else to go but to give up and submit to the will of the international community. ...

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It is also said by Goldman Sachs that if North Korea's growth potential reaches its full capacity, the gross domestic product of a united Korea would overtake that of Japan and other highly industrialized economies in thirty to forty years. ... Realizing the issue, it's an urgent and difficult task for Korean government to find the best way possible to decrease the potential destruction of social standings of North Koreans. ...

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