The death of North Korea's Leader, Kim Jong-il in 2011, has brought up one certainty. Now more than ever, The United States can strive to bring stability to the entire Korean peninsula by finally making peace with Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea.
The Korean War ended over 62 years ago, but not completely. The parties of both North and South Korea only agreed to an armistice, which is a truce signed for a certain period of time. So technically, everyone still is at war. But of course, no one wants to begin fighting again. Not even North Korea, who boasts about their weapons and powerful military, which would lose badly since their ally, China, wouldn’t intervene turning it into another proxy war to save the North. Remarkably, North Korea has brought up negotiations over a formal peace treaty. In October, Minister Ri Su-yong used the United Nations as a bridge to persuade the United States and DPRK (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) to agree to a treaty that would end the conflict. North Korean television repeated the call a few days later.
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Since the resolution of the Korean War, there has been almost no known contact between the citizens of the two countries (North and South Korea), including the many families who were separated during the tension that overcame Korea after liberation from the Japanese and during the Korean War. Most people in both North and South Korea have lost all contact with the rest of their family, and aren’t able to communicate with them because of strict laws/regulations across borders. In the 1980s, South Korea held special programs to reunite divided families. Now in present day, many families who were separated from the dividation have made contact but some are still struggling to see their long lost or even forgotten