interests, including questions about control of the country’s nuclear arsenal, the potential for a humanitarian crisis, and the possibility of a confrontation with China that could alter the fundamental security of the country.
If a power struggle in the family after Kim’s death, implications emerge for U.S. Meanwhile, North Korea simultaneously has continued to develop its nuclear powers. The United States and North Korea began denuclearization talks in 2018, but those negotiations have been frozen since February 2019. Having made advances in nuclear and missile weapons under Kim Jong-un, North Korea has evolved to be a grave security threat to the United States. foreign policy challenges (Post-Cold War period). North Korea posed to be one of the most persistent U.S. Later, it was discovered that its nuclear activities were more extensive than declared.
In 2017, North Korea successfully tested its first intercontinental ballistic missile and also conducted thermonuclear weapon test in September 2017. The country has shown illicit behaviour by withdrawing from nuclear weapons treaties. North Korea has active nuclear weapons and can possess biological and chemical weapons capabilities. Kim Jong Un meeting Donald Trump in Singapore It is available in the country but it is only accessible to the government officials. People there don’t have access to the internet. From the early years, people of North Koreans are taught that their leaders are powerful gods and that they are supposed to worship their leaders. Kim Jong-un forces people to cheer for him and people do that because they think that they would get into serious trouble if they didn’t. North Koreans can’t demand things from their government. People who try to change the system of the country or try to question the leadership are brutally punished and sometimes killed. Most North Koreans are extremely poor and can’t even afford things like washing machines, fridges etc. This also means that people there have no idea of outside/world events and they also don’t know what their country is thought of by the outside world. People can’t listen to foreign broadcasts or even watch foreign movies there and whoever does faces harsh punishments. Its very difficult to leave the country and people hardly get to visit North Korea.
The 25 million people living in the country live under a form of communist rule. Since 1948, North Korea has been ruled by the men from the same family. Things have improved but still aren’t great in the country. North Korea’s economy suffered a devastating downturn in the 1990s when it shrank by nearly a third, and starvation is considered to take the lives of nearly thousands of people. It is mostly unable to meet the needs of its people. North Korea’sPresident Kim Jong-un is one of the ruthless dictators and he keeps tight control over the economy. It is considered to be one of the world’s most isolated and poorest country. North Korea is a military dictatorship and doesn’t provide enough food for its people. Both the countries are not only separated geographically but they both are 2 different worlds, like chalk and cheese. It was formally divided into North Korea and South Korea on 9 th September 1948. The Soviet Union occupied the North of the country and the USA occupied the South of the country. Now, why is there a North Korea and South Korea and not just KOREA? Korea was one single country but it got divided after the second world war. North Korea has always been a controversial/disputable topic to discuss.
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