The North Korean War: The Conflict Between North And South Korea

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Throughout the years, North and South Korea have been having conflicts ever since the start of the Korean War. The war dates all the way back to 1950. As of recently, another disagreement rose between the two sides as well as the United States of America. The North Korean crisis consists of a threat of a possible “pre-emptive nuclear strike of justice” on South Korea, the U.S. bases in the Pacific, and lastly the United States of America. All of this has psychological processes and thinking’s that may have caused these conflicts between the nations to occur. To explain this conflict, there are three concepts that could perhaps give us an insight as to what is causing these threats for attack. The reasoning behind the conflict fits in with the …show more content…

The North Korean government has been showing aggressive behavior by continuing their efforts to create nuclear weapons. They are harming other nations as well as their own people just by issuing these threats. In January 2016, the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, organized their fourth nuclear weapons test. They also claimed to have set off their first hydrogen bomb. Although this is extremely harmful and dangerous, an analysis was taken of the seismic readings from the nuclear weapons test and showed confusion as to which kind of weapon was actually tested. It could be something more dangerous or not at all. What the United States and South Korea is more worried about is the possibility of North Korea starting a nuclear weapons crisis. If this attack does indeed fall into place, within the next year they may use it against their enemies which is alarming for everyone. The psychological processes and concepts can help us figure out the premise behind these operations. Psychology is a very intricate aspect that we use in our everyday life without us even knowing it. Nations and governments are the similar to that in a sense because to make the important decisions that they are always doing, it almost always has some kind of aspect of …show more content…

For example, if they are with a group of people and something goes wrong, they are more likely to blame the group as a whole rather than just themselves even if it was their fault to begin with. Kim Jong-un is the leader of North Korea so what he says goes for the most part. Although this is true, the government does also play a crucial part of allowing him to go through with these decisions he decides to make. Kim Jong-un isn’t alone in making the choices he does for his country, but the government as a whole. This allows them to lack a sense of personal responsibility for their

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