NORTH KOREA AND NORTH AMERICA

In between Sea of Japan and the Yellow Sea lies the twin Koreas as a peninsula consisting of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea).

Each one is an independent country having lot of problems in between them.

The North Korea is bigger than South Korea in area.

Pyongyang is the capital of North Korea whereas Seoul is for South Korea.

The literacy in both countries is about 95-98 per cent.

The historic background tells us, during the Second World War, America occupied South Korea and Russia, North Korea.

The two countries of Korea became independent in 1948.

But during 1950, North Korean army attacked the South Korea and the famous Korean War was initiated.

It appears the neighboring countries will have always problems and enmity.

It is true with most of the countries in the world.

Is it a universal phenomenon?

The Korean War, we find as a chapter in every world history book, ended in July 1953.

Kim Il Sung ruled Korea since 1948 and died in July 1994.

Several proposals were made to unify the North and South Koreas but in vain.

The disputes between these two countries are well known to the whole world.

South Korea is fortunate to be free from a dynastic rule.

It is a rich country with many industries – textiles, electronics, petrochemicals, ship and motor vehicles.

Koreans are having world famous construction businesses.

It ranks second in ship building in the world.

Koreans are hard working people who lost many of their ancestors in the cruel wars.

South Korea became the first Asian country ever to reach semi-finals in World Cup Football.

Both Koreans are good in sports.

We can see them in knocking off many gold medals in Olympic Games.

In the political scene North Korea has invited more enemies than the South because of its adamant administration by the dynasty.

Kim Jong Il, the ailing Dictator rules North Korea.

He has three sons, one out them Kim Jong Un has fair chance of ruling the country next with the help of his brother-in-law Chang sung Taek.

North Korea wants to be a nuclear power which is not liked by the Americans.

There were many talks between them but none of them was successful.

How to make North Korea to stand down in their nuclear program? – is the big question American Administration headed by Barack Obama is worried about.

Recent incident of sentencing two American female journalists Euna Lee (36) and Laura Ling (32) to 12 years of hard labor has angered the Americans.

The United States of America is furious about the abduction of these two women journalists, but it can not react vehemently in order to tackle North Korea carefully and cautiously by the new President Obama.

Therefore, the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton said the U. S. Government views the case as wholly separate from the other issues which divide Pyongyang and Washington.

Relation between Japan and North Korea is also not good.

North Korea is selling weapons of mass destruction to other countries.

Stopping this dangerous action is one of the foremost duties of the international communities.

Inflicting sufficient economic pain through new sanctions to make North Korea to rethink its determination to be a nuclear power is another aspect the world bodies have to consider.

Stiffer sanctions in fact, will cripple the North Korean economy and the innocent people will suffer a lot.

To do all these, China, the Great Nation has to come forward and help.

One of the sanctions, it appears, is to freeze the bank accounts of North Korea in China.

Whether China will do it?

One has to wait and see.

There are countries in the world that do not follow certain accepted norms for international cooperation and coordination.

North Korea is unfortunately one of them according to Western countries.