http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/05/10/north-korea-calls-us-south-korea-summit-preparation-for-war-against-north/ http://www.history.co.uk/explore-history/ww2/us-entry-and-alliance.html The two articles that I chose are very similar to what happened in the cold war and now a days in the North Korean crisis. In the cold war the USSR was the closest anyone has ever been to blowing up the world. I chose these 2 articles because I believe that they are a sign of foreign policy. In the 2 articles that I read it says how other nations needed our help and how we helped them to fight off the enemy. Now in 2013 North Korea is a major threat to the world because they have many nuclear weapons, a young dumb “dictator”, and willing to blow up anyone that stands in their way. In this case South Korea got a little scared that they would not be able to protect themselves in nuclear war asked America for some assistance. This relates to the other article that I read is about when Britton asked for our help in WWII. And we did help them because they are our allies.
http://world.time.com/2013/04/11/no-panic-in-north-korea-despite-talk-of-missile-test/ http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/national_world&id=9061826 The current situation going on in North Korea can compare to the past we had in world war two with the Soviet Union. The aggression and threats but ultimately no immediate action on either side of the globe resemble our headlines we see now between discussions over Kim Jong Uns new military tactics and his threats to send nuclear weapon our way. In the article it discusses how North Korea claims there will soon launch a nuclear missile. The farthest the missile could possibly reach would be the military bases of Guam and that is where it is pointed at.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/29/north-korea-threats_n_2977959.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/28/north-korea-missile-activity_n_2976165.html The missile threats from North Korea are a potential crisis that most people, including several nuclear physicists and high-rankings members of global militaries think of as a bluff by North Korea to try to scare the larger countries like the US, South Korea, and Japan. These threats are becoming increasingly more ominous, and the countries most targeted, like the US, and South Korea are starting to take precautionary actions to potentially avert the possibility of a nuclear attack by North Korea. I personally believe that these threats are all just Kim Jong Un’s way of trying to rally his people’s nationalistic, ant-American views. He is a young, very inexperienced leader, but he has to know that waging a nuclear war on the US or South Korea (because we protect South Korea from threats) would be suicide. This is very similar to the Korean War. The North part of what was the Korea was communist, and due to the US’s fight against communism, we immediately came to the side of South Korea. Many, many years later, South Korea has an agreement with us that says if they don’t build nuclear weapons, the US will protect them. That’s what we would do if North Korea attacks them.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324493704578432030609754740.html http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/18/us/cambridge-gunshots/index.html The Boston Bombings have put the people in Boston and surrounding towns on lock down while police are on a man hunt for the other suspect, this relates to when people were afraid that the soviet union would bomb us during the cold war, kids in school and citizens practiced hiding under their desks for safety. The same fear of not knowing what is going on because of the limited information that is being released for the Boston bombings like in the 50s when there was limited knowledge of what the soviet union was actually going to do.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/world/asia/chinas-north-korea-envoy-to-visit-washington.html Both of these articles discuss a form of containment that America is in charge of or is a part of when taking action against North Korea’s threats. In the first article it talks about how American officials have agreed to help support japan against any threats or attacks from North Korea, in this form of containment they are helping the surrounding areas against how North Koreas communism and totalitarianism is trying to affect them. In the other article it’s talking about how china has teamed up with us in disarming North Korea from their nuclear weapons and plans to take action in furthering the efforts of defusing North Korean threats against America and surrounding other nations. Although North Korea has settled down and has stopped using direct fear of what they can do is still there to an extent. The form of containment china and America are planning to use involves going right to the source, this is also domino theory to an extent if consider that we are not only trying to stop their attacks and spread of communism but also help convert them into a better functioning party and system, to help their, what some may say is a failing nation, get back on the right track.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/world/asia/chinas-north-korea-envoy-to-visit-washington.html?_r=0 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/20/north-korea-nuclear-weapons_n_3121427.html In these articles it talks about compromising between the United States and North Korea. The united states who are allies of South Korea want to possibly talk to North Korea about the disputes on the divided Korean peninsula. China is getting involved as well, South Koreas foreign minister is going to meet with Chinas minister in Beijing to discuss the issues with North Korea.
North Korea is also talking about how they will not denuclearize the peninsula. But the United States said they only wanted to talk to North Korea if they would give up their nuclear weapons. But North Koreas leader Kim Jung-un disagreed to those conditions. North Korea said if they wanted any communication with them they must give up economic sanctions against them and stop future military alliances with South Korea. The United States did not agree to North Koreas terms.
North Korea is also talking about how they will not denuclearize the peninsula. But the United States said they only wanted to talk to North Korea if they would give up their nuclear weapons. But North Koreas leader Kim Jung-un disagreed to those conditions. North Korea said if they wanted any communication with them they must give up economic sanctions against them and stop future military alliances with South Korea. The United States did not agree to North Koreas terms.
In those articles it compares America’s foreign policy to North Korea’s policy and it states that America has now been done with war while North Korea still hates us for helping South Korea during the Korean War. Since the 38th Parallel was put into effect North Korea has been isolated from the world and wants America to essentially die. North Korea has been teaching its children from birth to hate the United States and to hope that we will one day perish. They have a big hatred for America. America has tried to deal with North Korea but they ignore us and deny us entry to Korea. All of the people in North Korea are being oppressed by communism and it looks as if they are just afraid that if they don’t support their Leader then they will be killed. Comparing this to America is just trying to explain that America is at a point where there is no more war and we are trying to better ourselves and to help suffering countries. America has taken the fight to al Qaeda and eliminated Osama bin Laden. We have dealt with a threat to society while North Korea is just making verbal threats and has no real global power like America has.
The article that I read about talked about how Russia says they caught an American CIA agent that was trying to recruit a Russia government official to have someone on the inside of the Russia government. The article also talked about how this might cripple the United States relations with Russia. Russia says that the American man that they arrested was a member of the American embassy in Moscow. This relates to class because we recently talked about how the United States has problems with other countries like North Korea. The other article that I read talks about how Obama is going on an apology tour because he said that he has failed at keeping terrorism out of this country. Even though most Americans said that they trusted Obama with the foreign policy issue more than Mitt Romney.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/15/world/asia/north-korea-jailed-american/?hpt=hp_t2 http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/nightwatch/2013/05/16/north-korea-giving-in-to-japan-n1597923 The first article i read is about how North Korea put an american in a "special" prison. North korea wont release the prisoner because they are jerks. There special prisons are labor camps. The american is stuck there for 15 years. By them not letting him go it causes tension between USA and North Korea. In the second article i read is about Japan and North korea starting to be friends but not really. North korea is they say that is giving into japan. But they wont let US visit north korea. They dont like us at all. This shows how north korea is pretty much on there own because they don't like anyone even though all everyone is trying to do is help them.
In both of these articles they talk about how the presidents both in 2013 and in the 1960s struggled to keep everyone in the USA happy and also keep all of the larger countries around us happy. This is one of the hardest jobs of the president because there is so much that they have to watch for. In 1960 Kennedy had to make a difficult diccisont about what to do with Vietnam and how the country was trying to turn communist. On the other hand in 2013 Obama has to try to keep down on terrorism in the Middle East and keep people in Asia happy to and also keep a good eye on them. IN both years it was a very hard time and lots of wars and threats are coming from all over.
The two articles I picked, both deal with the cold war between us and the USSR. The first article talks about how Russia is actually going more for the Middle East. Of course by them getting involved with the Middle East means they’re getting involved with the U.S. That’s mainly why they’re main target is there and not here because the Russians know it’s going to bother us and provoke us to get involved. The article also talks about how Russia is trying to make a lot of weapon agreements with others. Any weapons of any kind are what they’re trying to get and set up. The second article gives a lot of examples of how we were and still are in the cold war with Russia (USSR). Recently, FSB (Russia’s counter-intelligence agency) arrested a CIA spy Ryan Fogle. He was found with a collection of low-tech spy gear, including an old Nokia phone, wigs, sunglasses and a letter explaining how to set up an email account. The article then brings up how in 2010 10 Russians were arrested in New York for being what is called a sleeper agent. So clearly there is still a lot of tension between the U.S. and Russia.
The two articles that I read discussed the problems in the Middle East and how the U.S always feels the need to be peacemaker and try and help. The first article discuses how even when there are a lot of problems going on elsewhere the U.S still insist on focusing on the problems in the Middle East. Secretary of state John Kerry stated during his trip to Israel that the U.S is even blowing off the nuclear threat of North Korea just to attend to the “problems” in the Middle East. The second article that I read discussed the problems in the Middle East also but they believed that political solutions would work more than military force. The war between Iran and Syria has nothing to do with the U.S but they still insist on getting involved. Obama says that he doesn’t necessarily want to get too involved but he wants to keep an eye out for what’s going on over there. This relates to back in the Vietnam War and how the U.S had nothing to do with the war but yet they still drafted people without choice and made them go to war. America has a lot of problems of its own and doesn’t need to be the mother and try to help fix all the other countries problems
These too articles are about a time line of past foreign policies and on new foreign policy. I chose them because they seemed interesting and informational. My favorite has to be the time line one because it basically gives you a back story of all foreign policies since Americas dawning. The new one is on Obama and his rejecting a new foreign policy from Asia. I am sure that one day the time line will be updated and Obama’s rejection for this one will be on it. That is why I chose these articles because of the irony of it
The article I read is about President Barack obama meeting with president President Xi Jinping to discuss the lack of trust between the US and China. Obama has been working on a four-year effort to rebalance the U.S. foreign policy focus to China and progress negotiations around the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. If the relationship is built well enough the administration officials believe that they could work out a framework to deal with issues like cyber-security, North Korea, and regional security issues, while working on economic partnerships and efforts on climate change. The lack of trust was formed throughout human history. China and the US developed it in 1972, even though Mao Zedong and Richard Nixon did not trust each other. Faced with several decades of military confrontation, Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan agreed to reduce their nuclear weapons in 1988, which contributed to the end of the Cold War.
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North Korea hates us. This is like when USSR hated us.
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The two articles that I chose are very similar to what happened in the cold war and now a days in the North Korean crisis. In the cold war the USSR was the closest anyone has ever been to blowing up the world. I chose these 2 articles because I believe that they are a sign of foreign policy. In the 2 articles that I read it says how other nations needed our help and how we helped them to fight off the enemy. Now in 2013 North Korea is a major threat to the world because they have many nuclear weapons, a young dumb “dictator”, and willing to blow up anyone that stands in their way. In this case South Korea got a little scared that they would not be able to protect themselves in nuclear war asked America for some assistance. This relates to the other article that I read is about when Britton asked for our help in WWII. And we did help them because they are our allies.
http://world.time.com/2013/04/11/no-panic-in-north-korea-despite-talk-of-missile-test/
ReplyDeletehttp://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/national_world&id=9061826
The current situation going on in North Korea can compare to the past we had in world war two with the Soviet Union. The aggression and threats but ultimately no immediate action on either side of the globe resemble our headlines we see now between discussions over Kim Jong Uns new military tactics and his threats to send nuclear weapon our way. In the article it discusses how North Korea claims there will soon launch a nuclear missile. The farthest the missile could possibly reach would be the military bases of Guam and that is where it is pointed at.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/29/north-korea-threats_n_2977959.html
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The missile threats from North Korea are a potential crisis that most people, including several nuclear physicists and high-rankings members of global militaries think of as a bluff by North Korea to try to scare the larger countries like the US, South Korea, and Japan. These threats are becoming increasingly more ominous, and the countries most targeted, like the US, and South Korea are starting to take precautionary actions to potentially avert the possibility of a nuclear attack by North Korea. I personally believe that these threats are all just Kim Jong Un’s way of trying to rally his people’s nationalistic, ant-American views. He is a young, very inexperienced leader, but he has to know that waging a nuclear war on the US or South Korea (because we protect South Korea from threats) would be suicide. This is very similar to the Korean War. The North part of what was the Korea was communist, and due to the US’s fight against communism, we immediately came to the side of South Korea. Many, many years later, South Korea has an agreement with us that says if they don’t build nuclear weapons, the US will protect them. That’s what we would do if North Korea attacks them.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324493704578432030609754740.html
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The Boston Bombings have put the people in Boston and surrounding towns on lock down while police are on a man hunt for the other suspect, this relates to when people were afraid that the soviet union would bomb us during the cold war, kids in school and citizens practiced hiding under their desks for safety. The same fear of not knowing what is going on because of the limited information that is being released for the Boston bombings like in the 50s when there was limited knowledge of what the soviet union was actually going to do.
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2013/04/15/economics_war_north_korea_kim_jong_un
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Both of these articles discuss a form of containment that America is in charge of or is a part of when taking action against North Korea’s threats. In the first article it talks about how American officials have agreed to help support japan against any threats or attacks from North Korea, in this form of containment they are helping the surrounding areas against how North Koreas communism and totalitarianism is trying to affect them. In the other article it’s talking about how china has teamed up with us in disarming North Korea from their nuclear weapons and plans to take action in furthering the efforts of defusing North Korean threats against America and surrounding other nations. Although North Korea has settled down and has stopped using direct fear of what they can do is still there to an extent. The form of containment china and America are planning to use involves going right to the source, this is also domino theory to an extent if consider that we are not only trying to stop their attacks and spread of communism but also help convert them into a better functioning party and system, to help their, what some may say is a failing nation, get back on the right track.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/world/asia/chinas-north-korea-envoy-to-visit-washington.html?_r=0
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In these articles it talks about compromising between the United States and North Korea. The united states who are allies of South Korea want to possibly talk to North Korea about the disputes on the divided Korean peninsula. China is getting involved as well, South Koreas foreign minister is going to meet with Chinas minister in Beijing to discuss the issues with North Korea.
North Korea is also talking about how they will not denuclearize the peninsula. But the United States said they only wanted to talk to North Korea if they would give up their nuclear weapons. But North Koreas leader Kim Jung-un disagreed to those conditions. North Korea said if they wanted any communication with them they must give up economic sanctions against them and stop future military alliances with South Korea. The United States did not agree to North Koreas terms.
DeleteNorth Korea is also talking about how they will not denuclearize the peninsula. But the United States said they only wanted to talk to North Korea if they would give up their nuclear weapons. But North Koreas leader Kim Jung-un disagreed to those conditions. North Korea said if they wanted any communication with them they must give up economic sanctions against them and stop future military alliances with South Korea. The United States did not agree to North Koreas terms.
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In those articles it compares America’s foreign policy to North Korea’s policy and it states that America has now been done with war while North Korea still hates us for helping South Korea during the Korean War. Since the 38th Parallel was put into effect North Korea has been isolated from the world and wants America to essentially die. North Korea has been teaching its children from birth to hate the United States and to hope that we will one day perish. They have a big hatred for America. America has tried to deal with North Korea but they ignore us and deny us entry to Korea. All of the people in North Korea are being oppressed by communism and it looks as if they are just afraid that if they don’t support their Leader then they will be killed. Comparing this to America is just trying to explain that America is at a point where there is no more war and we are trying to better ourselves and to help suffering countries. America has taken the fight to al Qaeda and eliminated Osama bin Laden. We have dealt with a threat to society while North Korea is just making verbal threats and has no real global power like America has.
The article that I read about talked about how Russia says they caught an American CIA agent that was trying to recruit a Russia government official to have someone on the inside of the Russia government. The article also talked about how this might cripple the United States relations with Russia. Russia says that the American man that they arrested was a member of the American embassy in Moscow. This relates to class because we recently talked about how the United States has problems with other countries like North Korea. The other article that I read talks about how Obama is going on an apology tour because he said that he has failed at keeping terrorism out of this country. Even though most Americans said that they trusted Obama with the foreign policy issue more than Mitt Romney.
ReplyDeletehttp://tv.msnbc.com/2013/05/14/russia-claims-cia-officer-captured-obama-foreign-policy-crumbles/
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/05/the-foreign-policy-critique-of-president-obama-that-cannot-succeed/275798/
http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/15/world/asia/north-korea-jailed-american/?hpt=hp_t2
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The first article i read is about how North Korea put an american in a "special" prison. North korea wont release the prisoner because they are jerks. There special prisons are labor camps. The american is stuck there for 15 years. By them not letting him go it causes tension between USA and North Korea. In the second article i read is about Japan and North korea starting to be friends but not really. North korea is they say that is giving into japan. But they wont let US visit north korea. They dont like us at all. This shows how north korea is pretty much on there own because they don't like anyone even though all everyone is trying to do is help them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_policy_of_the_John_F._Kennedy_administration
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In both of these articles they talk about how the presidents both in 2013 and in the 1960s struggled to keep everyone in the USA happy and also keep all of the larger countries around us happy. This is one of the hardest jobs of the president because there is so much that they have to watch for. In 1960 Kennedy had to make a difficult diccisont about what to do with Vietnam and how the country was trying to turn communist. On the other hand in 2013 Obama has to try to keep down on terrorism in the Middle East and keep people in Asia happy to and also keep a good eye on them. IN both years it was a very hard time and lots of wars and threats are coming from all over.
http://www.wnd.com/2013/05/cold-war-russia-seeks-to-replace-u-s/
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the-us-in-a-new-cold-war-3807420/
The two articles I picked, both deal with the cold war between us and the USSR. The first article talks about how Russia is actually going more for the Middle East. Of course by them getting involved with the Middle East means they’re getting involved with the U.S. That’s mainly why they’re main target is there and not here because the Russians know it’s going to bother us and provoke us to get involved. The article also talks about how Russia is trying to make a lot of weapon agreements with others. Any weapons of any kind are what they’re trying to get and set up. The second article gives a lot of examples of how we were and still are in the cold war with Russia (USSR). Recently, FSB (Russia’s counter-intelligence agency) arrested a CIA spy Ryan Fogle. He was found with a collection of low-tech spy gear, including an old Nokia phone, wigs, sunglasses and a letter explaining how to set up an email account. The article then brings up how in 2010 10 Russians were arrested in New York for being what is called a sleeper agent. So clearly there is still a lot of tension between the U.S. and Russia.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2013/05/28/statesmen-stuck-in-a-time-warp-john-kerry-syria/
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The two articles that I read discussed the problems in the Middle East and how the U.S always feels the need to be peacemaker and try and help. The first article discuses how even when there are a lot of problems going on elsewhere the U.S still insist on focusing on the problems in the Middle East. Secretary of state John Kerry stated during his trip to Israel that the U.S is even blowing off the nuclear threat of North Korea just to attend to the “problems” in the Middle East. The second article that I read discussed the problems in the Middle East also but they believed that political solutions would work more than military force. The war between Iran and Syria has nothing to do with the U.S but they still insist on getting involved. Obama says that he doesn’t necessarily want to get too involved but he wants to keep an eye out for what’s going on over there. This relates to back in the Vietnam War and how the U.S had nothing to do with the war but yet they still drafted people without choice and made them go to war. America has a lot of problems of its own and doesn’t need to be the mother and try to help fix all the other countries problems
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These too articles are about a time line of past foreign policies and on new foreign policy. I chose them because they seemed interesting and informational. My favorite has to be the time line one because it basically gives you a back story of all foreign policies since Americas dawning. The new one is on Obama and his rejecting a new foreign policy from Asia. I am sure that one day the time line will be updated and Obama’s rejection for this one will be on it. That is why I chose these articles because of the irony of it
The article I read is about President Barack obama meeting with president President Xi Jinping to discuss the lack of trust between the US and China. Obama has been working on a four-year effort to rebalance the U.S. foreign policy focus to China and progress negotiations around the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement. If the relationship is built well enough the administration officials believe that they could work out a framework to deal with issues like cyber-security, North Korea, and regional security issues, while working on economic partnerships and efforts on climate change. The lack of trust was formed throughout human history. China and the US developed it in 1972, even though Mao Zedong and Richard Nixon did not trust each other. Faced with several decades of military confrontation, Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan agreed to reduce their nuclear weapons in 1988, which contributed to the end of the Cold War.
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