Cultural Analysis of North Korea Prepared by Group 4: Matthew Cordova Ruting Yuan Guoying Chen Chris Rosen Prepared for: Dr. Gerry Huybregts BUS 310 October 30‚ 2008 Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY………………………………………………………….4 INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………………………...6 NORTH KOREA HISTORY………………………………………………………...7 GEOGRAPHICAL SETTING………………………………………………………11 Figure 1 Geographic Map…………………………………………………..11 ECONOMIC BACKGROUND……………………………………………………..14 Figure
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Moreover‚ when North Korea citizens are feeling ill the hospital is free‚ but they have to pay for the doctor and medicine. It is difficult for a citizen to get the health care that they deserve because they cannot afford it. There are times when doctors come from other countries to see and help out patient at no charge. Jonathan Watts states “But according to the WFP‚ supplies are dying up because countries that were formerly major donors have either cut or reduced their support as a result of tensions
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Korea in World War II‚ North Korea introduced communism into their country aiming to create a country where everyone was equally wealthy. However‚ unlike the expectation‚ NK’s national plans didn’t work out well‚ and North Koreans started to suffer from political oppression and chronic food shortages. North Koreans who could not stand the situation in their home country started fleeing from North to South Korea. first broadcast in July 2007 reveals the 10 day journey of the North Korean defectors who
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Period D “Why has militarism flourished in North Korea?” A contemporary crime writer named Patricia Cornwell once said “I believe the root of all evil is the abuse in power.” Sadly‚ the Kim Dynasty in North Korea has displayed this so well. The Kim family required their military to be more offensive than defensive because they believed it was more beneficial‚ and they were stronger on the attacking side. In order to succeed in this strategy the North Korean military were required to produce many
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Wiesława Brandys Klaudia Dziki Political situation in North Korea INTRODUCTION HICTORICAL BACKROUND Initially the state of North Korea was created as a result of the Cold War conflict between communism and capitalism.1 In August 1945‚ two young aides at the State Department divided the Korean peninsula in half along the 38th parallel. The Russians occupied the area north of the line and the United States occupied the area to its south. 2 It was‚ and in one way remains
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Totalitarianism: North Korea “If you want a vision of the future‚ imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.” - A quote made the famous George Orwell‚ and can be said about any totalitarian government. Whether it be WWII Germany‚ the Soviet Union‚ or even China. They all ran their respective regimes under the flag of totalitarianism‚ thus subjecting their peoples to the iron fist that typically accompanies this type of regime. That was the past‚ and one would think that these regimes have
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Human rights in North Korea Torture and other ill-treatments: At the moment there are 200’000 people in prison camps in North Korea. They all have to work very hard and nearly all of them are subjected to torture. North Korea has political and non political prison camps. The conditions in the prison camps for political crimes are much harder. Prisoners are punished if they for e.p. do not work fast enough or if they forget the prison rules or the text of patriotic songs. Forms of punishment
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When it came to China deciding to support North Korea‚ they made this choice because of the shared hatred for the enemy of North Korea (Yufan‚ Zhihai 94). In addition‚ this decision by China‚ also stems back to 1949 when Chairman Mao delivered a speech exclaiming how he is denouncing the United States as an imperialistic power seeking to dominate China‚ and with that he said China would now lean toward the side of the Soviet Union (Yufan‚ Zhihai 97). The Chinese Communist party did not want any more
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who knows which country could be next. The North Korean and Darfur genocides are happening right now‚ and there are many differences and similarities between them‚ including how they are both tragic events. The two genocides have a death toll that is way too high. The deaths have been reported in the thousands. In fact‚ in North Korea‚ the death toll has been anywhere from 710‚000 to 3.5 million people. According to the article‚ Statistics of North Korean
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first settlers of North America. Their original origins and how they got to the North American continent is debated to this day. From crossing an icy glacier‚ to crossing an exposed sea floor‚ and even the suggestion of small boats originating from Asia crossing the Pacific Ocean‚ we may truly never know exactly how the first settlers came here‚ but we have some basis of knowledge as to how their societies functioned after they arrived. There are three eras of settlers into the North American Continent
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