North Korea’s Kim Jong-un calls a symbolic summit with South Korea the “starting point” for peace.
Global concern over North Korean nuclear capabilities has spiked again, as the nation appears to have fired four ballistic missiles that traveled about 1,000 km. (more than 600 miles) into waters near Tokyo on Monday morning, according to reports from the South Korean military and Japanese officials
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The nuclear program can be traced back to about 1962, when North Korea committed itself to what it called “all-fortressization”, which was the beginning of the hyper-militarized North Korea of today.
Wow. You have to watch this video to see how history was just encapsulated. North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in meet at the village of Panmunjom, the historic site where the Korean War armistice was signed in 1953 for the start of talks between the two countries.
The history of North Korea formally begins with the establishment of Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in 1948. Kim Il-sung, although supported by the Soviets, possessed only partial political control at the time. Within his own party (the Workers Party) four separate factions existed, his own
North Korea, officially the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (abbreviated as DPRK, DPR Korea or Korea DPR), is a country in East Asia constituting the northern part of the Korean Peninsula.
Bill Clinton made concessions to strike a nuclear deal with North Korea, but couldn’t appease Kim Jong Il—or Republicans at home—with the ‘Agreed Framework’ he negotiated in 1994.
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