Spet 2014 North Korea Case study

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Korea history ✤ At first Korea was divided into tribes but eventually organised kingdoms emerged ✤ These 3 kingdoms were heavily influenced by Chinese civilization. By the 4th century they were highly civilized. ✤ China and Japan tried to invade Korea, lost but Cunficious thought reigned ✤ Contact with Europeans 1656, many trade treaties were formed ✤ Modernized, but slowly fell under Japanese rule

The split ✤ Japan fell after 1945 ✤ Russia and the USA split Korea in 2 with numerous attacks and invasions (Communists versus Democracy) ✤ The 38th parallel was the official border between the two countries

South Korea ✤ In the 1980s the Korean economy continued to grow and the country climbed out of poverty ✤ South Korea became an affluent society ✤ In 1988 the Olympics were held in Seoul which brought South Korea into the international limelight

North Korea ✤ After Russian troops occupied the north a communist government was installed ✤ Kim Il Sung was made ruler ✤ He created a very repressive regime. Religious belief was outlawed and the people strictly controlled ✤ Today North Korea is the last Stalinist regime in the world. With a great deal of Russian aid North Korea was transformed from a poor agricultural country into an industrial one

Regime ✤ North Korea remains a very repressive and very isolated regime. In the 1990s South Korea made some attempt to normalize relations with the north but Korea remains a deeply divided nation ✤ Today the people of North Korea still face terrible hardship and even starvation as well as brutal political oppression

Conflict USA and South Korea ✤ three tests of nuclear weapons, its development of long-range missiles capable of striking targets thousands of miles away, and its ongoing threats to strike the United States and South Korea with nuclear weapons and conventional forces

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