Nuclear Weapons are a Threat To World Peace :: Atomic Bombs

It is a well-known fact that the displace of the two atomic bombs near the end of World War II in 1945 ushered in the dawn of the Atomic Age. For the first time in human history, the world was introduced to the awesome power of atomic weapons. Since that time, there gestate been several different nuclear threats to the world, and one of those threats can be be along the Pacific Rim, in the country of North Korea. Like the move of the atomic bombs, it is also known that the North Korean government has admitted to possessing nuclear weapons, and in doing so, it stands as a silent, potential nuclear danger to the alleviation of the world. To understand this situation more fully, one must be given up some background, starting in the early mid-fifties. Due to the harsh differences amongst the peoples of Korea, and especially due to the onset of Communism, the Korean War erupted and the nation resolve in half, with the Communist-supported Democratic Peop les Republic in the magnetic north and those who favored democracy in the Korean Republic of the south (Microsoft Encarta encyclopedia 2000). The two separate countries of North Korea and South Korea went their opposite ways, and each has see different fortunes in the past half-century. The South Koreans managed to recover from the turmoil of the 1950s and 1960s to become an economic power and a democracy supporter. On the other hand, North Korea can be viewed as a ex post facto country, based first on a Communist ideology, laid coldcock by leader Kim Il Sung and inherited by his son, the reliable dictator Kim Jong Il, then evolving into a totalitarian state (Pacific Rim eastern United States Asia at the Dawn of a New Century). Today North Korea holds the tubercle of being one of the very few remaining countries to be rightfully cut off from the rest of the world. Author Helie Lee describes this in her clean In the Absence of Sun An eerie fear crawled through my skele ton as I stood on the Chinese side of the Yalu River, gazing across the mysterious water into one of the most closed-off and isolated countries in the world. (1)