Do you know what is happening around the world? Especially in North Korea? Well in this article, you’re gonna learn about all of the things that you might wonder about North Korea.
Why does North Korea hate the United States?
North Korea teaches its citizens to hate America, but why? It began with a war that’s almost forgotten in the United States. After World War II, two super powers divided the Korean peninsula along the 38th parallel. The Soviet Union occupied the north and the United States the south. This resulted in the creation of two separate states: the Republic of Korea, or South Korea, and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, or North Korea. Most historians say the north invaded the south, on June 25th 1950 when the Korean War began.
The north tells its citizens America actually started the war. Over the next three years, around one million North Koreans died in the fighting including an estimated 600,000 civilians. Active hostilities ended in 1953, but technically the war is still ongoing because no peace treaty was ever signed, a fact North Koreans are never allowed to forget. Since then the country’s founder president Kim Il Sung, his son General Kim Jong Il and grandson Marshal Kim Jong Un have all dialed up the anti-U.S. rhetoric. Including blaming the U.S. for international sanctions they claim have caused North Korea’s economic woes.
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Grover Middle School's Jagazine 