Carson Glazer
Maechler/Cucinelli
LA/SS – Periods 5/6
Due Date - 5/8/2018
Crisis in Korea
Ever since North and South Korea emerged as independent nations, and even prior to this occurring, there has been a massive amount of conflict in Asia. The government in the North has been at the center of many controversies in the past fifty years, including but not limited to their nuclear weapons program, threats on other countries and more. This has led to certain nations distrusting North Korea and impacting the business between them. The dictatorship in North Korea from the 1950s to the current day has caused negative changes throughout Asia by influencing the economics of countries in the region by not working with Japan, striking terror into South Korea, and by partnering with China.
When Korea first came about as a nation near the end of World War Two, the peninsula was far from independent. As a result of the Cold War, the United States essentially controlled the way the South was ran and the Soviet Union followed suit with the North. When it became clear that the differing governments between the North and the South imposed by foreign powers could not be united as one, the South and North broke off from each
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This is important because “China is North Korea’s most important trading partner and main source of food and energy. It has helped sustain Kim Jong-un’s regime, and has historically opposed harsh international sanctions on North Korea” (Albert). For as long as it has been a country, North Korea has relied on China as its main trading partner and closest ally. One reason for this odd friendship is that during the time Korea emerged in the Cold War era, the two nations both had communist governments. At this time, they were two of few nations with communist governments which meant that supporting each other would be beneficial to the economic