Good morning. Welcome to the Korea Gallery at the Smithsonian of Natural History. My name is Allison Chung‚ and I will be your tour guide this morning. Now‚ can anyone tell me what some things that YOU know about Korea? Well‚ I am here to tell you that Korea isn’t just about K-pop or Samsung‚ but it is a place where the past is always the present and traditions inspire the future. Muniseok (tomb guardians) Protected the ancestral graves from evil spirits. Practice of placing tomb guardians
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Whether Montgomery’s talks and trip were successful? One way to evaluate the success was to go back to his remarks on May 29‚ at Hickam AFB. In his speech‚ he stressed that his trip would enable 5 families to reunite their long-lost loved ones and improve the U.S.-DPRK relationship. In a short term‚ at least immediately after the trip‚ he would feel disappointment as neither of his expectation was materialized. However‚ when we consider the dynamics of the two countries’ contact in the whole 1990s
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Consequences of the Korean War * The Korean War never ended‚ and they are still under an armistice to this day. The Korean War is technically not over; all that’s keeping the two sides from going to war again is a cease-fire agreement. * The Korean War brought the US and Russia further apart‚ and the fear of communism would later lead the US to throw itself into Vietnam‚ to avoid another North Korea. * It also brought China into conflict with the US‚ bringing bad feelings between the
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“Seoul-ja” Boy The end of WW2 had divided Korea into two sides‚ a communist northern half and an American occupied south half. July 31st‚ 1953 Immediately following the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and after the surrender of Japan in 1945‚ Soviet troops poured into Korea. Appalled by this‚ the US responded by also moving troops into Korea to prevent the Soviets from gaining another Satellite state. The line that would separate the Soviet controlled sector from the American controlled sector
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growth. Furthermore‚ the agreements from WWII that divided Korea into two separate countries fostered support of this future. The initial NKPA invasion took place on the 25th day of June in 1950 as they concentrated their attack in the Chorwon and Kaesong areas. Apparently their intent was to capture Seoul and seize the rest of Korea thereafter. The NKPA armor broke through the initial Republic of Korea (ROK) hasty defense with no trouble with spearheading columns. ROK defenses were more resistant
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Korean War "Never before has this nation been engaged in mortal combat with a hostile power without military objective‚ without policy other than restrictions governing operations‚ or indeed without even formally recognizing a state of war‚" - General Douglas MacArthur. The Cold War dominated more than fifty years of the century. It was a war that contained victories for communism and for democracy some were fought with guns‚ others were fought with diplomacy‚ but no conflict was the same as
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2013 RISK For the past decade‚ the main drivers of regional risk have been North Korea’s nuclear provocations and tensions around the status of Taiwan. These issues were well-defined‚ and risks were offset by regional commercial integration and shared economic growth. The good news is that North Korea and Taiwan no longer loom as major sources of tension. North Korea has been somewhat less provocative‚ but at least as importantly‚ cooperation among other regional actors--along with the United
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Working Paper Series WP 09-4 July 2009 Sanctioning North Korea: The Political Economy of Denuclearization and Proliferation Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland Abstract As a small country dependent on foreign trade and investment‚ North Korea should be highly vulnerable to external economic pressure. In June 2009‚ following North Korea’s second nuclear test‚ the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1874‚ broadening existing economic sanctions and tightening their enforcement. However
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Positive Effects of Korean Reunification Abstract The purpose of this paper is to identify positive effects of Korean reunification. The Korean reunification refers to the hypothetical future reunification of North Korea and South Korea under a single government. The process towards this was initiated by the June 15th North-South Joint Declaration in August 2000‚ where the two nations agreed to make efforts towards a peaceful reunification in the future time. However‚ there are difficulties
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1/28/2014 North Korean nuclear crisis | The Japan Times 転職 North Korean nuclear crisis There are almost 18‚000 nuclear warheads distributed among nine nuclear-armed states in the world today. Over 90 percent of these are in Russian and U.S. arsenals. But concerns about the growth in nuclear weapons stockpiles are focused on China‚ India‚ North Korea and Pakistan. North Korea is estimated to have four to 10 nuclear warheads — the smallest arsenal of all — and remains the subject of
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