The rising tension over the sinking of a South Korean ship reached to a serious conflict between South Korean and North Korea. South Korean is accusing North Korean for firing the torpedo on purpose which resulted in 46 sailors deaths. According to Yonhap news, North Korean military official accused the South of intruding into North Korean waters in the Yellow Sea. North Korea sends a warning message to South Korea by firing torpedo to warn South Korea to not intrude in to their waters in Yellow Sea. North Korea doesn’t want to admit to their mistake; instead they are threatening to retaliate with military actions if South Korea won’t stop with accusations.
The intentions and actions of North Korea’s leadership seem more inexplicable
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Secondly all communications between North and South will be cut off, and the South Korean ships and airliners be banned from passing through North Korean territorial waters and airspace. According to Yonhap news official said in a statement “This is a deliberate provocation aimed to spark off another military conflict in the West Sea of Korea and thus push to a war phase the present north-south relations”.
After all accusations that North Korea made against the South Korea, the U.S Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has backed South Korea’s call for North Korea “to come forward with the facts about this act of aggression and above all, stop its belligerence and threatening behaviour.” U.S President Barack Obama made a decision according to South Korea concern adopting a newly aggressive military attitude towards its neighbour; he had directed military commanders to work with South Korean troops to make sure readiness and to deter future aggression from North Korea.
This article has a lot of links to Geography. If you look from a political view what North Korea did to South Korean by firing the torpedo at the warship on purpose which resulted in 46 sailors deaths, North Korea doesn’t want to admit to their mistake; instead they are threatening to retaliate with military actions if South Korea
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
By the way, didn’t Korea have any faults? Both sides are responsible for this incident. There is no right and there is no wrong. So I want to say Korea’s faults which most people are reluctant to say about.
Across the Yellow Sea in China, there was a civil war between the communists where Mao Zedong was in charge and the nationalists by Chiang Kai-shek. In the end, the communists won, this meant that Mao would support Kim Ill Sung because of their similar philosophy on how to run their country. Soon, the US started to withdraw troops in 1948 after the secretary of state, Dean Acheson stated that South Korea was out of the “defense perimeter” (“United”). After Sung heard this, China and Russia helped North Korea to plan the attack for South Korea while they weren’t being protected by the US. At the same time, citizens who were against Rhee increased letting Sung think that he will become a hero if he was successful in reuniting the two Koreas. In 1949, Sung asked for permission from Stalin about attacking South Korea. Stalin declined the idea because their army was too weak compared to South Korea. Although they had China’s aid, they couldn’t help North Korea much because of their instability of their own country since their recent civil war that ended not so long ago. Sung and Stalin wanted South Korea to invade first and only have North Korea to counterattack the South. By August 1949, Sung talked again to Russia, this time with the news that South Korea was planning to attack the north and that the US was going to remove all their troops in Korea, giving North Korea a chance for “military action” (Schaff). The war broke out on June 25, 1950 and ended up
North Korea warns Australia against military drills with the United States. This situation aggravated the North Korean president. North Korea takes this as a sign of war. As a result of their military training, North Korea threatened to bomb Guam. North Korea might not see that other countries will be affected by their action. For example, North Korea had already threatened South Korea and the United States.The United States has responded to the North Koreans threat by putting steep sanctions against North Koreans. Anymore sanctions will devastate the North Korean people. Even though, it seems the sanctions against North Korea are not working, the bombing of Guam by North Korea has peaked the politicians interest into making tougher sanctions.
Both the North Koreans and the Russians wanted to overthrow South Korea to expand their empire. Above all, Russia had a chance to oppose its economic and military rival, the United States. North Korea, armed with Soviet tanks, boats, planes, and guns, planned a surprise attack across the 38th parallel into South Korea. Late Saturday evening on June 24, 1950, president Henry Truman got a urgent phone call. Truman was informed that a well organized and many pronged invasion of South Korea by the North Koreans was under way. The U.S. was obliged to defend South Korea.7
One of the significant events were at Yeonpyeong in 1999 and 2002. There were two battles that were fought between South Korea and North Korea. Tens of people died and injured from the battle. Those were little combats compared to Korean War, but these battles were telling that two Korea were still in war. In East Asia peninsula, North Korea and South Korea were confronting due to North Korea’s intimidation on bombing. North Korea’s Kim Jong Un said that the modern war is artillery war. The tension among both Korea and United States was really intense in that it is almost the moment of rising of the war. North Korea is threatening America on nuclear bombing in that United Nation is strongly corresponds on their actions. Actually, both sides are almost got ready on the war and it seems to occur. Kim Jong Un was looking for the place to bomb. There were also threats that occurred recently due to nucleic bombing. North Korea is keep doing the nuclear test by firing a rocket to the space as satellite. This is nominal satellite in which they are actually doing a nuclear test. By using nuclear power, North Korea wants to get the initiative from South Korea and attract China to be their
On August 4th, 2015, two South Korean soldiers were injured by a North Korean landmine, prompting the South for the first time in eleven years to resume anti-North propaganda broadcast via loudspeakers across the border. These conflicts provoked cross-border fire and heated rhetoric, however China and the United States are usually at the ready to ease friction between the North and South. For the past 60 years the flames of the North and South Korean conflict have kept burning ever since the spark of the Korean War. Although a majority of the fire has been extinguished with the 1953 armistice ending the Korean War, the flames of the Korean conflict still live, causing occasional burns and damage between nations. The political influences of the United States significantly affected the conflict between North and South Korea during the Korean War and have continued to affect this conflict for the past 60 years by means of military involvement, oppression of communism, and conflicting interests with other nations.
Unfortunately, there are negative outcomes. We could see escalation in North Korea to try to deter us from bring in more forces. That in turn could create a spiral effect eventually leading to war. Now, the United States would win that war but the costs would be high and the damage to both North and South Koreas infrastructure and population could be devastating even if the war only lasts a day. There is enough ordinance in the region that even a short war should be avoided at all costs.
The U.S and North Korea have always been two countries that are controversial. Both counties have been enemies for the past half decades and there were wars between two sides that make reconciliation impossible. North Korea has always want to fulfill their dream of conquer and The U.S was doing their job as peacemaker. Both countries are two extremes on the balance and there are several differences between two countries.
North Korea has been a strong enemy of America for a very long time. Ever since the beginning of the Korean war, they have had a hatred for America. Over the years since then to present day America has tried many attempts to denuclearize North Korea all failing. In present-day 2018, Donald Trump is taking a new approach that seems to be working with North Korea’s sudden peace talk mood.
By attempting to destroy North Korea’s nuclear weapons and access to plutonium, many innocent lives would be lost along the way. South Korea would suffer major damage, along with many Americans who are currently stationed, living in, or visiting South
relations and security on the Korean Peninsula. Many older Koreans believe that the North Korean invasion of the South in 1950 was related to the full-scale withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1949. The relocation and reduction of U.S. troops—amid the acute ongoing tension over North Korea’s nuclear affairs—would significantly change the security environment on the peninsula. Although the number of USFK has reduced, nevertheless, it is clear that USFK is the main measurement to deter North Korea. When the United States withdrew all its troops in 1949, just one year before the Korean War, North Korea decided to invade South Korea. However, the North has not made a total war since the truce, only provoked sometimes. Namely, USFK is the most important among various alliance provisions within the Mutual Defense Treaty that aim deter attack in the Pacific
The ongoing feud between America and North Korea has stirred up major conflict over the past few months. All of the radical choices made by Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un have left many wondering, can this country determine its own destiny? Back in January, “President Donald Trump on Tuesday taunted North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, warning Kim about US nuclear capabilities as tensions worsen between the two nations” (Watkins 1). Having even greater tension between the two leaders has made citizens uneasy about the capabilities each country possesses. With the power of nuclear weapons, the country could be in serious danger if North Korea’s dictator, Kim Jong Un, decides to take matters into his own hands. Sarah Sanders, a press secretary in Washington,
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