North Korea has historically been known as a country that violates many human rights of North Korean citizens‚ motivating them to seek refuge in another country such as China. However‚ China is actively contravening its international obligations toward North Korean refugees by infringing upon international human rights laws such as violating the commitment to adhere to the 1951 Convention on the Status of Refugees by recognizing North Koreans that have fled their country as refugees. Furthermore
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Headquarters | Seoul‚ South Korea | Key people | Kim Woo-jung‚ founder | Daewoo | Hangul | 대우 | Hanja | 大宇 | Revised Romanization | Dae-u | McCune–Reischauer | Taeu | Daewoo (Korean for "Great Universe") or the Daewoo Group was a major South Korean chaebol (conglomerate). It was founded on 22 March 1967 as Daewoo Industrial and was dismantled by the Korean government in 1999. Prior to the Asian Financial Crisis of 1998‚ Daewoo was the second largest conglomerate in Korea after Hyundai Group
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On June 25‚ 1950 around 100‚000 Koreans Soldiers make a Surprise attack south of the 38th Parallel. The President of the United States (President Harry S. Truman) decided intervene in The conflict and the 24th Infantry Division Landed in Korea on July 2‚ 1950‚ establishing the Command Post of 8th US ARMY in Korea (EUSAK) in Taegu‚ 60 miles northwest of Pusan. The Pusan Perimeter was held for 82 days in the fall of 1950 and this is one of the first major battles in the country. The North Koreans
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North Korea To bring all of Korea together. The UN interfered with the capturing. The K. war happened General MacArthur To defeat North Korean army North Korea was stronger than they initially thought. UN troops fought north korea. President Truman To keep the UN troops away from the China border‚ so that there was not a chance that China would enter the war. General MacArthur didn’t listen to orders and China entered the war. President Truman fired General MacArthur for going against
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did different governments get involved? What were they fighting for? The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea‚ which involved a lot of International support on both sides. Where the United Nations force led by the United Sates of America fought for the South‚ and China and the Soviet Union fought for the North. What started out as a civil war between the North and South soon became a global contest between the superpowers of America and the Soviet Union being the first battle of the
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for wars such as greed‚ power‚ and to improve the standard of living. Another cause of war is to protect the boundary of the country. In some countries such as Korea and Vietnam these boundaries define the different political views of the territories. Korea and Vietnam were divided between the Communist North and the Democratic South. This division of the countries led to disputes and then war. The causes of the Korean War were very similar to the Vietnam War with their roots in the Truman Doctrine
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Article Analysis #1 Article Title: “North Korea Cuts All Ties with South” Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/26/world/asia/26korea.html?ref=global-home Summary: The article describes how the relationship between North and South Korea has reached its worst point in many years this Tuesday. The connection was already strained due to the sinking of a South Korean warship and now it has reached a place where the South Korean president has renamed the North as its archenemy‚ and the North
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The war in Korea has affected North Korea’s economy today as well as the human rights of its citizens. Kim Jong- Un is the current dictator of North Korea in a communist country (“North” News). “The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” is North Korea’s official name. (“ North” News). In 1945‚ after Japan surrendered in World War II‚ Korea was divided into North and South Korea (Ember 1204). Many families were separated from loved ones and resources on the land were too (“North” Central). Thousands
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The Causes of the Korean War‚ 1950-1953 Ohn Chang-Il Korea Military Academy ABSTRACT The causes of the Korean War (1950-1953) can be examined in two categories‚ ideological and political. Ideologically‚ the communist side‚ including the Soviet Union‚ China‚ and North Korea‚ desired to secure the Korean peninsula and incorporate it in a communist bloc. Politically‚ the Soviet Union considered the Korean peninsula in the light of Poland in Eastern Europe—as a springboard to attack Russia—and
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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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