Border Dispute: The North Korea and South Korea

2.  It is a peninsula on the eastern coast of Asia, it is
divided into North Korea and South Korea
 It runs along 38°N parallel for 148 miles (238 km)
between the Sea of Japan in the east and the Yellow
sea in the west.

3.  North Korea is bounded in the North east by Russia
and in the north by China, in the east by the Sea of
Japan, in the south by South Korea, and in the west
by the Yellow sea.
 Capital: P’yongyang
 A multiparty state
 Has one of the world’s largest army

4.  South Korea is a peninsular country in eastern Asia
 Its only land boundary is in the North with North
Korea.
 Capital: Seoul
 More westernized

5.  Peninsula was divided into two nations; One supported by
the United States and the other by the Soviet Union and
China.
 In June 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea
 The invasion was the idea of North Korean premier Kim II
Sung
 the risk that China would enter the war was accepted
willingly by General Douglas McArthur
 38th parallel as a military division
 Dwight Eisenhower
 Tension with South Korea eased dramatically in June
2000, when South Korea’s President met with North
Korea’s President in Pyongyang and it marked the first
ever meeting of the two countries’ leaders.

6.  The invasion was the idea of Kim II Sung, who
managed to convince Stalin that the South Koreans
would greet the Northerners as liberators, thus
ensuring an easy, quick victory for the North.
 The risk that China would enter the war was accepted
willingly by General McArthur because they were so
sure that the Chinese won’t intervene but the Chinese
did intervene.
 Expanding Communism in Korea
 The rise of Cold War tensions between Communist
and non-Communist nations.
 The divided Korea using the 38th parallel

7.  High number of casualties in North Korea and South
Korea
 widened the gap between the United States and the
Soviet Union on the issue of communism
 South Korea is now an economic power while North
Korea suffers deep poverty.