As One Vietnam War

As One, directed by Moon Hyun-sung, is a sports drama film based on true events. The film retells the story of a unified Korean team who managed to unite two tense, divided nations in its chaotic and painful history. Two ladies, Hyun Jung-hwa and Li Bun-hui, who had only ever competed against each other, must now work together in order to defeat the Chinese team and win the gold medal. Ever since the Korean War divided the country, relations between the North and South have been unstable. Despite that, Korean reunification is an important and beneficial agreement that both North and South Korea must come to, and As One is one of the best examples for that. Seeing how As One is a historical film based on a true story, it is imperative that

and the U.S. The 1950 Korean War was arguably just as much a civil war as it was the first proxy war fought in the Cold War era, as Kim Chull Baum and James I. Matray have suggested. (Matray 2011) Nevertheless, writing about the Korean War would be an exercise in futility for the purposes of this essay. Instead, discussing the consequences of this war would be more appropriate. The Korean War set the stage for future Cold War era relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. It devastated both North and South Korea, in terms of their economy, infrastructure, and industry. Economically, South Korea was doing very badly during the 1950s, but was able to eventually transition into a fully democratic state by 1987. Meanwhile, in North Korea, the same economic growth was not observed. The withdrawal of Soviet support, as well as difficult weather conditions, left the North Korean economy in ruins, as they struggled (and still are) with agriculture. U.S. forces still remain in South Korea in case of any possible attacks from North Korea. However, neither Soviet nor Chinese forces remained in North Korea after the Korean War. Both Koreas are technically still at war – while an armistice was signed, an official peace treaty was never signed between the two nations. Negotiations for peace treaties have been very difficult, however. The U.S. stated that they would engage in peace talks only when North Korea “takes irreversible steps toward denuclearization.” (Niksch 2010) which may very well be impossible, seeing as how North Korea has been building nuclear weapons and conducting nuclear tests for the past few