North Korean Conflict
The Korean peninsula was first established around the fourth century when the Chinese colonies were replaced by three kingdoms. These three kingdoms were very competitive and maintained very close ties to China hoping to gain an advantage over each other. The three kingdoms unified at around 660 and drove all Chinese establishments out, and at around 668 the Korean people became a nation; creating there own language, culture and making Buddhism their state religion. Over the years while Korea was still young uprisings tore the new nation apart, however, a military officer named Wang Kon took over power and reunited the new nation in 935. In Korea there was a golden age which lasted from 1392 to 1910 but this ended with the invasions of Japan and the Manchurians. The invasions were stopped but hurt Korea economically which led to greater problems. So at around 1910 Japan attempted to eliminate all that was Korean, and when Koreans held a massive demonstration called March First Movement thousands of Korean civilians were killed by the Japanese. Then at the end of World War II, Japanese again abused Korea with forced labor. At the end of the war Korea was divided at the 38th parallel with the U.S.S.R. controlling the Nort
United States now fighting terrorist activity visited South Korea stressing support for diplomatic diplomacy to bring North and South Korea closer but still said that would be hard with a country that allows starvation. North Korea then decides to resume talks with the United States but says it will cut all ties if we slander its country again. There was a violent skirmish in the Yellow Sea and left 4 South Korean sailors dead and 19 others injured. North Korea sent out an apology for the naval clash in the Yellow Sea, and South Korea accepted the apology. There were more talks between the two nations and both nations agreed to work on the cross border road and rail links. In September of 2002 thousands of Korean families who were split during the Korean War were now meeting for the first time. North Korea once again surprises the world by saying that they have been secretly continuing their nuclear weapons program after agreeing to freeze in 1994. Then North Korea in 2003 announces its withdrawal from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty with immediate effects and threatens to abandon the armistice that ended the Korean War in 1953 if the United States continues its military buildup in the region. h and the South controlled by the United States. While trying to unify the nation back toget
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