WW2: The Rise Of The North Korean Regime

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The Rise of the North Korean Regime as we know it today started after the conclusion of WW2. Prior to the war, the Korean peninsula was a protectorate of Imperial Japan in the early 1900s. Japanese culture was imposed on the Koreans, going as far as to forbade Korean names and the Korean language, as well as converting them into the Shinto religion. Battles and uprisings against the Japanese were common throughout the years leading into WW2, such as the attempted assassination of Emperor Hirohito and the bombing of a Japanese army celebration.
After the end of WW2, Japan gave up its control over the Korean peninsula. It was divided at the 38th parallel, with the Soviet occupation of the North and U.S. occupation of the South. The Worker’s …show more content…
It started as an interstate conflict between North and South Korea but became Internationalized with the direct involvement of Chinese and American troops in the area. The repercussions of this conflict are still reflected in modern day North and South Korea. In the beginning, the objective was a defensive war, attempting to control the North Korean outbreak and to get the Communists out of South Korea. As the campaign started going well for the South, the objective changed to an offensive war, attempting to “free” North Korea from the Communists. However, this dragged China into this conflict as they saw this as an armed aggression against their interests in the …show more content…
Then on March 9, 2014, Kim Jong Un is unanimously elected as Deputy to the Supreme People's Assembly (SPA) of the DPRK. By 2017, North Korea conducted six nuclear tests. But, more recently Kim Jong Un, stated that he is open to discussing the elimination of North Korea’s nuclear arsenal if the United States guarantees the security of North Korea and its regime. Kim Jong Un and Trump are supposed to meet before May this year to discuss this. If this goes through Trump will be the first sitting U.S. President to meet with a North Korean Leader.
Along with military sanctions, restricting arms trading, dual-use technology, transport vehicles and industrial machinery. North Korean faces freezing assets for known individuals participating in the nuclear program, most luxury goods, coal, minerals, food, and agriculture.
The United States restricts more business sanctions such as investment, and technology due to the Military programs and the cyber attack on Sony’s computer systems in 2014. In 2016 the U.S. Congress passed its first statute on North Korea. These were typically done independently by each president. Among this, the law requires the President to sanction those who participate in the proliferation of nuclear
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