In the article, "Korean War Part 2?" written by Choe Sang-Hun, he writes about how many years after the war the tensions is going up in the Korean peninsula. North Korea is a very isolated place; it only really communicates with China while S. Korea is associated with the U.S. and is protected by our troops. Both Nations aren't in war with each other but they sure aren't at peace with each other.
The leader of N. Korea, Kim Jong-Un, is considered as "unpredictable" because of his actions. He recently canceled the armistice that has kept peace for the past 60 years and "pre-emptive nuclear strike" threats have been sent toward S. Korea and the United States.
The U.S. has given S. Korea B-2 Stealth bombers to show that they are ready with force. The U.S is going to be spending $1 billion on missile defenses in Alaska and California. The missile defense device will see the missile coming and shoot it while it's still in the air instead of hitting people on the ground...
Former U.S. ambassador, Donald Gregg said "The Korean peninsula is heading into a difficult and very dangerous period." In 1945 when WW2 ended, the Soviet Union installed a Communist regime while occupying the North, as the U.S. and others were controlling what is now S. Korea.
N. Korea's economy collapsed as the Soviet Union did in 1991. Today there is a one-million man army and nuclear-weapons program that N. Korea spent all of their money on, but there are many, many people there who are starving because of no money.
N. Korea said that they had exploded a nuclear bomb in 2006 and shortly after in 2010, tested missiles and expelled U.N. nuclear inspectors. Most recently in February, N. Korea did a third test for their nuclear weapons towards China and China is N. Korea’s only ally.
S. Korea has about 28,000 American troops and the testing of nuclear weapons and the threats that have been made have the people of S. Korea want the government to have their own nuclear arsenal. Instead of them having to be supported by the U.S. military.
Han Yong-sup, a professor at Korea National Defense University says, "The third nuclear test was for South Korea what the Cuban Missile Crisis was for the U.S., it has made the North Korean threat seem very close."
If American doesn't hurry to try and prevent the nuclear attacks from the inside, there could be some damage. Many people think that the missiles will not reach all the way over to the U.S. but may hit S. Korea because of how close they are.
N. Korea's economy is very bad; most of the factories there have failed and are not being used. Droughts and floods led to crop failures in the 1990's causing 2 million people to die.
The people in N. Korea are very isolated, like their leader. Only very few people can get on the internet and there is no regular TV's or radios, they all have channels about the government. The people there are scared to go to labor camps if they try and go against the government.
American needs to try and get into N. Korea and try to prevent anything that will harm people to happen, before it is too late to try and do anything.
The only American who got into N. Korea and to hang out with the leader is Dennis Rodman, former NBA star. Kim Jong- UN is a major basketball fan. Obama even wants Rodman to call him.
According to Rodman Kim says that "I don't
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