Hello Alice, did you know that last June 25 was the 60th anniversary of the Korean War? When I heard, I said, you may not know almost nothing about the war, and the current situation of the two Koreas? So I started to do some research and believe me, that story is truly tragic. And so too is the current situation.
The Korean War began on 25 June 1950, lasted about three years, and ended July 27, 1953. It caused about 2 million dead and 4 million people, counting the wounded and missing, of which about half were civilians. They participated actively in the U.S., the USSR and China , but also other countries in the context of the newly formed United Nations. A war that marks a point of no return nell'inasprimento the Cold War, which led to the final division of the two Koreas (as we know them today) and that meant a crescendo of violence between the two colliding blocks (U.S. and USSR) both looking to expand their areas of influence. China, in determining the aid provided to North Korea (henceforth CDN), was (almost) at the margin. It was the last armed conflict "hot" on a large scale after World War II and pushed the U.S. to sign the Peace Treaty with Japan in 1951, to enter into the covenant of security in the Pacific with Australia and New Zealand, to propitiate the rearmament of Germany and to give economic aid to Franco's Spain and Yugoslavia, at odds with the USSR. It began like this, forcefully, the war "cold" (technically began in 1945-47), although on this point there is no agreement among historians.
Currently the two Koreas are still divided. The reports undergone ups and downs in recent years. In fact, were much improved after the death of Kim Il Sung (the founder of Cdn) in 1994, and the subsequent takeover of his son Kim Jong-Il in 1997. They came up so the first North-South summit in June 2000 to reopen the dialogue between the two Koreas. After the September 11, 2001 Seoul decided to tighten security measures to Pyongyang, which considers such hostility. Then, Kim Jong-Il, decided to reactivate its nuclear program for military purposes (leaving the Non-Proliferation Treaty - NPT - in 2003) and performs the first nuclear test in October 2006.
Many analysts say that the nuclear strategy has been to the CDN one part as a deterrent against any attempts of aggression, on the other, a way to call the attention of the U.S. and push us towards treaties to limit the damage of heavy economic isolation which they object. In fact in December of that year, we reopen the multilateral talks in Beijing aimed at ending Pyongyang's nuclear program in exchange for economic aid. February 2007 to sign an agreement to achieve these objectives.
This led to the October 4, 2007 date on which the two Koreas signed the Declaration "Peace and Prosperity", taking up the agreements of 2000 in order to build a lasting peace and (possibly) learning, as well as trade agreements (key to the North). He even got to talk about the reunification of the Koreas, although this view is realistically far, more than ever. In fact, in order to reactivate the "dialogue" with the U.S. - more to alleviate the economic crisis and the sanctions imposed by the UN in 2008 - Kim Jong-Il will launch just four months after the arrival of Obama as President U.S., its second nuclear test in May 2009.
Maybe you heard say, Alice, who recently had bombed CdN the Corvette military Cheonan "of South Korea (CdS), on 26 March 2010. Well, this situation has led to an increase in tension, on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Korean War. The situation is very serious today, and we do not know if you are able to mend this situation in the short term. Seoul has expressed its intention to even get up to the UN Security Council for additional sanctions, even if the North continues to deny its responsibility in practice. Here is the information so far seems to be the same that we all have.
But I learned from that site www.telesurtv.net - an information project created recently by an agreement between Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela and Cuba (for which we are talking about a serious site, not of information thrown lightly by anyone) - so here I learned that Pyongyang has the technology of "ghost rockets" that could not be detected by radar ships of the Security Council, and then accuse the U.S. of deliberately placed explosives inside a mine the Corvette, in order to heighten tensions between the two Koreas.
We do not know what the truth may be. But what we ask, Alice, and that the various players involved understand that the stakes are too high and you can not go to the sound of threats and provocations. To all those responsible for the peace process in that area (especially China and the U.S.) we ask for a responsible attitude, we begin to build peace today, tomorrow or the price tag is too high. It could be for the whole world, not only for the two Koreas. We have to work today for total nuclear disarmament in the world, no ifs, ands or buts!
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