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3. The Formation of DPRK and RoK
The occupation of Korea by Japanese, USA and Soviet forces and had a deep effect on the political development of the DPRK and The RoK. In part for how it established Kim Il-sung as a leader, and in part for how it shaped the North Korean response to the ensuing American and Soviet protectorates.
Japan annexed Korea in 1910 and instantly controlled every facade of Korea and its society. They employed a ruthless policy towards the Koreans; the Koreans were languishing in rampant poverty while serving as source country for food, raw materials and labor to Japan. Finally as the situation worsen Korean resistance and nationalist movements intensified throughout Korea. The Japanese became a unifying force for all Koreans to stand against. Korean patriotic movements began to organize a resistance fronts. However, the Japanese were more than match for unorganized patriots and were effective at suppressing Korean resistance until the end of the Second World War. After WWII
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Low-intensity warfare sets as its ultimate objective the collapse of the North Korean government. Unremitting military pressure forces Pyongyang to maintain punishingly high expenditures on defense (Ibid)
According to declassified and other US government documents, some released on the 60th-anniversary of the Korean War, from “the 1950s’ Pentagon to today’s Trump administration, the United States has repeatedly pondered, planned and threatened the use of nuclear weapons against North Korea.” (Hanley & Hershaft, 2010). These documents, along with the public statements of senior US officials, point to an ongoing pattern of US nuclear intimidation of the DPRK.
• The United States introduced nuclear weapons to the Korean peninsula as early as 1950.