Comparison Of Kim Jong-Un And North Korea

Since the 1950’s North Korea has posed as dangerous threat to The United States and its allies. With North Korea development of Nuclear arms and its consistent hostile rhetoric and actions towards the United States. With the North Korea’s development of a long range ICBM, more now than ever the United States has been put into a position where its and many of its

Australia is a Democratic Country, which means that people are in power and have control over the government. In this type of government people’s views and opinions are highly considered by the government and an equal and stable administration can be achieved. ( Asia-Pacific Economics Blog, 2014). The people can choose and can voice in their opinion regarding Medicare and any other complaints they have against the system, which helps the government, improve the system. Comparing the political characteristics to North Korea, the Australian citizens have more

The U.S. helped to divide the Korean peninsula at the end of World War II, and then waged war against North Korea in the 1950s. Although the U.S. signed a peace agreement rather than a peace treaty with North Korea after the war, its policy toward the country changed. Instead of trying to overthrow the North Korea government, the U.S. government adopted a policy of containing communism. During the 1980’s, associations between North Korea and the U.S. start to take on a new diplomatic form. North Korea’s nuclear weapons program had become a pressing international issue

Since its creation after the Korean War in 1950, North Korea, also known as the Democratic People Republic of Korea (DPRK), has caused many problems for the United States. North Korea has, for instance, broken treaties and even gone so far as to threaten the use of nuclear weapons. Naturally, different presidents have dealt with North Korea in different ways. Take Eisenhower for example, he actually threatened the use of nuclear weapons against North Korea in 1953 (obviously before North Korea had nuclear capabilities). Many presidents ignored North Korea all together, and some tried to ignore the country, but circumstances did not allow

To begin with, If we were to go to war with North Korea they would be very pleased by it because they are not looking for any sort of compromise with the United States. According to the article, “The case for letting North Korea keep its nukes”, it states that from “the thinking here, as far as we can tell from the outside, is that you need to threaten North Korea with a credible

A journey to North Korea and Oceania are very similar. They both have powerful leaders that control everyone and everything. Both their governments are totalitarian, they do not tolerate any individual freedom. All citizens think alike, if they disobey the rules of the government they will be sentenced to torture, death or sent to a concentration camp.

On 25 June 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea with the intention of dominating South Korea and forcing its government and policies upon them. These circumstances imply that not only did South Korea had the grounds to defend itself, but other nations had the right assist them in the time of need. On June 25, 1950, North Korean forces assaulted the South Korean army, and quickly advanced towards the capital city of Seoul. The United States, stationed there in correspondence with the United Nations, quickly rushed to defend South Korea.

Pollock stated, “..North Korea has repeatedly argued that without nuclear weapons it would be vulnerable to US decapitation and regime change akin to the fate of Saddam Hussein..” Since the manufacturing of lethal weapons has increased dramatically in the recent year's countries fear what North Korea is capable of doing.This imposes fear among their own citizens and other neighboring countries. “In a deeper psychological sense, Kim seems to regard nuclear weapons as the regime's ultimate form of protection, guaranteeing its survival in a highly malign world” (Pollock). North Korea desires deterrence to protect their country from this harmful world. Kim Jong-un desires deterrence within North Korea because he gains more power and feels protected from

North Korea has always been isolated. They were a communist country for generations to generations. There has always been tension with the alliances, but now that North Korea has launched multiple missiles for the past few months, it has caused a nationwide ruckus that has every authority and the citizens on edge, and threats just doesn’t seem to faze North Korea. In fact, it seems to make Kim Jong Un satisfied knowing that his missiles are becoming successful, but do we truly know what Kim Jong Un wants?

Almost all countries in today’s world strive to have some form of democracy. Many use America as the stereotypical model when thinking about what democracy can bring to a country. However, there are some countries that refuse to change. One of those is North Korea, which has remained under a dictatorship for the better part of 75 years and is now under the rule of Kim Jong Un, a third generation dictator. All of Kim Jong Un’s regime is based on fear. A university student who escaped from North Korea from 2013 documents in an interview with the Washington Post that “The secret to North Korea’s survival is the reign of terror. Why do you think North Korea has public executions? Why do you think they block all communications? Why do you think

Kim Jongun, has mentioned before that he wants the world to look up to his strong country as a nuclear power, rather than just a mere country with multiple sanctions shouting big words. This in the past has led to various consequences from hegemonies all around the world who feel threatened by the implications of a young tyrant in charge of ICBMs. This is a clear example of the security dilemma in which the entire world, the anarchy that it is, has to control minor nations that strive for hegemony at the expense of the larger nations’ security and loss of leverage. Unfortunately, it seems that despite the clear warnings from the superior nations, the North Korean dictator has no interest in abiding by international rules and is far more fascinated with realist ideologies of projections of power.

This article deals with the United States and its attempts to deal with the dangerous matters of North Korea. Some of the problems that were brought up in this article were North Korea’s plan to restart a plutonium based nuclear program at Yongbyon, North Korea’s plan to build a new highly enriched uranium (HEU) nuclear program, and the tension that emerged between the United States and South Korea. Even though many problems were occurring, there were some positive things that were happening at the time. The United States began negotiating with North Korea and South Korea about establishing railroad links, demining portions of the demilitarized zone, allowing athletes to compete in the Asian games, and allowing abductees to visit Japan.

Ever wondered why there’s North Korea and South Korea? The nation of Korea was once unified for centuries under the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). The Japanese invaded Korea and ruled over the nation for 35 years—thus, during the World War II as well. Consequently, the World War II ended after Japan surrendered to the United States, which also led Japan to give up Korea. The United Nations ordered Korea to be temporarily demarcated into two parts through the 38th parallel—the Soviet Union controlled the northern part and the United States controlled the southern part. The United Nations scheduled elections and stated that both parties were to be fair and democratic. The Soviet Union refused the idea of having democratic elections and anointed Kim Il-Sung as North Korea’s communist ruler in contrary with South Korea which democratically elected Syngman Rhee as its leader. That explains why there’s North Korea and South Korea. The nation’s split made a bombarding impact in the development of its environment, economy, people, and culture.

We have tried to make peace for the last 67 years, leaders of multiple countries including our own have set new sanctions to try and restrict North Korea from pushing the world closer and closer to Doomsday. Instead of reducing some of the tension, this is like telling a child that they are not allowed to do something which makes them want to do it even more. And it is does not help that leaders of multiple countries are continuously teasing and threatening North Korea as a whole.

Kim Jong-un and Dennis Rodman’s friendship is an unusual relationship that the ordinary American doesn’t understand. Kim Jong-un, Supreme Leader of North Korea and Dennis Rodman, former National Basketball Association, NBA, player, on the surface, don’t seem to have any reason to be friends. The United States has had a negative opinion of communist North Korea ever since the Korean War. Even though the Korean War technically ended in a ceasefire, troubles between North and South Korea, one of the U.S.’ allies, never stopped (Tharoor). Because of these tensions with North Korea, most U.S. citizens have grown up hearing North Korea and communism are bad. However, this didn’t seem to influence Dennis Rodman. Even after receiving backlash for his friendship with Kim Jong-un, Rodman has still tried to bridge the gap in his own unique way between the two countries. His unconventional efforts have not worked, showing that the relationship between Kim Jong-un, and Dennis Rodman, is nothing more than a friendship between two colorful people.