North Korea's attack on South Korea

Well, for once in my blog, i will post something that is connected with my field of study which is international relations. Well, what i will write now in my blog is basically taken from my answer on my final exams. The question was , state your point of view on the Korean crisis looking at 3 aspects, history, the actors and the forcoming of the crisis, who will win and so on.., so here goes...

The Korean peninsula was first colonialized by the Japanese empire in 1910 till 1945, when japan was defeted by the allies. But, during this time of liberation, the Soviets entered the northen part of Korea thus giving it a comunist influence whilst the American entered the southern part of Korea giving it a liberal ideology influence. The Korean war marked the first war in the cold war. The cold war as we all know started after the end of the second world war, dividing the 2 super power. U.S.A and U.S.S.R.

The North Korean army was backed by the Russian and the Chinese. The Russian giving support by form of military equipment whilst the Chinese gave infantry man tao the north Koreans. The North attacked first, thus surprising the south's ill prepared army. The south asked for the help of American troops which came in a bit late during the Korean war, thus giving momentary victory to the north. When the American where organised and had all its military resources in South Korea, it quickly overwhelmed th North. In a short periode of time the south with help from the american army where able to push back the comunist to the now Korean Border.

An agreement was made with the 2 Korea's about the border, which is called the DMZ (Demilitarized Zone). The DMZ is a 2.5 mile (4km) wide streach of no man's land that divided the 2 koreas. Within the DMZ complex, there are building that are use to hold meetings and agreements between the 2 Koreas. The Northen border of the DMZ is heavily fortified, the goal is not to stop people getting in, but it is to stop people getting out of North Korea. Seoul is just only 50 or so KM away from the DMZ.

The main actors that play a role in the Korean crisis are of course the 2 Koreas, and America. Russia and chine (from my point of view) do not play any role in the crisis because now, Russia is not a comunist state, it is now a federal state. And chine's rapid economic growth, is the reason why china does not take part in the Korean crisis, if the take part, then it will handicap their economic sector, and china has already lot of Issue's one of them is about the ownership of Senkaku or Daiyou Island between Japan and China.

While America, with its intrusive political system always plays a part in every countries internal affair. But I think that America's asset in north Korea is needed to be protected so that's why the are in the crisis supporting the South. America has also 18.000 soldiers stationed in Korea, some of them are tasked to guard the DMZ with the fellow native Koreans.

If by any chance a war was to break out between the 2 Korea's, In my personal opinion, the north don't have a chance of wining, the lack the military equipment. The north only has post cold war era planes and tanks, and AK 47 Rifles, but as a major threat, there is a chance that the north may have nuclear technology. Not like the first Korean war in the 1950's, this time the North will be fighting alone. Whilst the south has the adequate military equipment sponsored by America, it has a vast number of infantry man and not forgeting U.S Army's support in fighting the north Koreans.

I think that the point of the north attacking the south is to draw attentions. North Korea's is having a difficult time at the present moment, maybe it's goal are to attract attention of the east Asian countries in the hope that a meeting will be held, and maybe in that meeting, the north will make an agreement to stop causing havoc if the other countries help in overcoming it;s economic crisis.