... good diplomatic relations with the U.S. is very important especially regarding military affairs. The truth is that we are still in a cold war with North Korea, and American troops' presence in Korean soil secures South Korean citizens from the outbreak of another war. Moreover, the issue regarding nuclear weapon which North Korea is believed to possess threatens South Korea. The sad reality is that the ... North is not willing to negotiate with the South, and this is where the U.S. comes in as a mediator of the two. Without the help of the U.S, it is ... be done to prevent from having m...

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... increased growth. But the stimulus resulting from increased spending is far more than offset by the negative effects of war on the economy (e.g. uncertainty, loss of business and consumer confidence, supply shocks). The stimulus effect dominated and led to expansion after the onset of World War II and the Korean war because the additional spending was very large relative to GDP, more concretely speaking it was more than ... 50 percent of GDP for WWII and 8 percent for Korea ( "The economic costs of a war in Iraq:The negative scenario" by Dean Baker and Mark Weisbrot, ... co-directors of...

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... of fairly similar economic levels but what will happen if one country's economic level drops or gets much better than the rest? Would the better ones pull up the worst to keep up with them or would those countries-having the best economy- want to carry the rest on their shoulders? Besides its economic ups and downs globalization has a tremendous effect ... on cultural values. World has a cultural diversity in itself. Every nation every country has its own traditions values practices of cultural activities. These create a diversity which every part of the world can be pointed out by their...

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