US Worrisome After North Korea declares 1953 Armistice Invalid

The Armistice of 1953 stopped the fighting between North and South Korea, after the Chinese Communist backed North attacked the American and Capitalist freed South in august of 1950.  At the end of 1953 no peace treaty was signed but and an armistice was agreed upon and a heavily defended border divided the two warring enemies, on the 38th parallel. Since 1953 North Korea has been nicknamed “The Hermit State”, as it rarely lets insiders in and has very bad reputation with international affairs.  This has led North Korea’s economy and country to famine and extreme poverty as it only spends its money on defense, as they now have the third largest army in the world.  The United States and other United Nations countries have tried to reach out to N. Korea with economic and humanitarian aid, but have been denied.  The same countries have also demanded that N. Korea stop the production of nuclear materials in fear that they would try and make weapon of mass destruction.  Fears came to realities as N. Korea has now positively tested 3 Nuclear weapons in the last 10 years and have tested long range missiles as soon as January of 2013.  With this hyped attention on N. Korea, Kim Jung Un has released statements and videos swearing to destroy and create war with the United States and our allies, with the dismissal of the armistice.          

With North Korea continually racing to get more and bigger weapons to potentially attack America has stepped up its defenses with the south and continued with air raid practice runs.  China has continually tried to be the peace keeping country and told both the United States and N. Korea to stand down, giving N. Korea ultimatums with humanitarian aid in the balance.  Even though this has not had lots of immediate change, it has worked in the past.  Some experts worry though thinking that Kim Jung Un, the young new leader of N. Korea is trying to prove himself to his people and military leaders and is eager for a fight.

Congress has now been shown a new bill “North Korea Nonproliferation and Accountability Act of 2013” which aims to punish/ cut foreign aid to N. Korea for their latest bombing tests.  This bill also calls on the UN to ask all other countries to fallow the United States stance on these punishments. 

These kinds of punishments remind some Americans of pre-World War II era were Germany was a small and demolished country who was trying to build some defense for themselves.  Before any one took action Adolf Hitler had the world’s 4^th largest army and 3^rd largest navy.  Colin Powell has been quoted stating that any war like act on the bordering S. Korea, Japan or American forces will be treated as an Act of War and the U.S. and the coalition regime will act swiftly and decisively.

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