Korean Peace Crisis Research Paper

Effectiveness of the US Heavily Coercive Diplomacy in Solving the Crisis in Korean Peninsula

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Abstract

Introduction

Since the outbreak of the Korean Civil War in 1950, the sub region has been devoid of peace and stability for the last sixty and more years. Even though the Korean civil war that lasted for three years concluded with signing of truce in 1953 complete peace treaty has never been signed between the warring parties, and technically we can say that the North Korea and the South Korea along with USA are at war. The US and South Korea in one Side and the DPRK on the other side have been antagonistic and have been seeing each other with much distrust since then. This antagonism and distrust between the parties led to North Korea’s

The ongoing crisis in the Korean peninsula has its root in the civil war that has not been concluded with peace treaty for the last sixty four years. Therefore it is possible to allude to some extent the lack of proper conclusion of the war helped the current statuesque in the region. And also how this war began and ended further explains why the US , RoK , DPRK and other regional powers are behaving the way they do.

Korea, like Germany, had been jointly occupied by Soviet and American forces at the end of World War II. The nation had been part of the Japanese empire since 1910, and when Japanese resistance suddenly collapsed in the summer of 1945, the Red Army, which had been planning to invade Manchuria, found the way open into northern Korea as well. The way was also open, in southern Korea, for some of the American troops whose original mission had been to invade the Japanese home islands (Gaddis, 2005). The peninsula was occupied, therefore, more by accident than by design: that probably accounts for the fact that Moscow and Washington were able to agree without difficulty that the 38th parallel (John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History (The Penguin Press, 2005), pp. 40-46), which split the peninsula in half, would serve as a line of demarcation pending the creation of a single Korean government

In general ,it is a state of hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the Western powers from 1945 to 1990.

The tension in the Korean peninsula was one of the hotbeds for cold war era struggle between the East and the West. The nature of the formation of the two states by itself is the result of the cold war struggle, the struggle to expand communism against the struggle to contain it. The very involvement of the then USSR, China and USA in opposite sides of the war explains why the Korean Peninsula was one of the battle fields of the cold war in the period between 1945 and 1991.

North Korea has begun with the remnants of the freedom fighters

DPRK and its Nuclear Program

The US Coercive Diplomacy in Solving the Security Threat in NE Asia

Involvement of Other Regional