Question

Describe the North Korean conflict.

with the united states

Answer 1

North Korea is isolated, poor, and its southern neighbor's declared rival, South Korea an significant ally of the United States. U.S. military intervention in the Korean peninsula has its origins in the early 1950s Korean War during the early stages of the Cold War, in which the U.S. backed forces in the southern part of the peninsula against communist forces in the north, which were aided by China and the Soviet Union militarily. Today the United States is committed to protecting South Korea under the terms of the U.S.-Republic of Korea Mutual Defense Treaty.

The U.S. has nearly 29,000 troops deployed to that end in the Korean peninsula. In addition to U.S. forces, many of the 630,000 South Korean soldiers and 1,2 million North Korean forces are deployed along the Demilitarized Zone ( DMZ), making it one of the world's most heavily armed frontiers. In violation of UN Security Council resolutions, North Korea is continuing its nuclear enrichment and efforts to develop long-range missiles openly. Although the scope of North Korea's uranium enrichment program remains unclear, U.S. intelligence officials believe it has enough plutonium to manufacture at least six nuclear warheads, and possibly as many as sixty.

North Korea carried out its sixth nuclear weapons test in September 2017, its most potent test to date. As with previous tests in 2016, it once again claimed to have developed a hydrogen, or thermonuclear, bomb that would represent further advances in the nuclear program and the ability to build more powerful, higher-yield nuclear weapons. U.S. intelligence agencies determined in August 2017 that North Korea could miniaturize its nuclear weapons to fit in a missile which North Korea had already claimed it could do in March 2016. North Korea carried out the first launch of an unidentified missile in November 2017, allegedly its largest ICBM yet, the Hwasong-15. North Korea, however, has not yet demonstrated that its nuclear warheads can survive re-entry into Earth's atmosphere.

The U.S., South Korea , and Japan have each imposed their own unilateral sanctions against North Korea, targeting firms involved in the production of North Korean missiles and nuclear weapons, high-ranking individuals and North Korean government sources of income.