Carlos Alaniz

Mr. Wisner

World History

3rd

4\17/17

A Cuban Missile Crisis in Slow Motion in North

Korea
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/16/us/politics/north-korea-missile-crisis-slow-motion.html?hp&action
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Key Vocabulary from the Article (Define at least 4).

o arsenal-a collection of weapons and military equipment stored by a country, person, or
group.
o c
onfrontation-a hostile or argumentative meeting or situation between opposing parties.
o incremental -relating to or denoting an increase or addition, especially one of a series on
a fixed scale.
o p
erilous-full of danger or risk.

Summary of the Event (at least 3 major points; each point will have its own paragraph)

A. There was the parade in Pyongyang's primary square, with wave after rush of rockets on
portable launchers, expected to pass on a feeling that Mr. Kim's program is relentless. At that
point came another humiliating difficulty, a rocket test that fizzled seconds after lift off a similar
example found in an astonishing number of dispatches since President Barack Obama requested
ventured up digital and electronic-fighting assaults in mid 2014. At long last, there was the test
that did not occur, in any event yet a 6th atomic blast. It is ready to rock and roll to go,
satellite pictures appear.
B. What is playing out, said Robert Litwak of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars, who tracks this potentially deadly interplay, is the Cuban missile crisis in slow
motion. But the slow-motion part appears to be speeding up, as President Trump and his aides
have made it clear that the United States will no longer tolerate the incremental advances that
have moved Mr. Kim so close to his goals.Secretary of State Rex W. Tillerson has said
repeatedly that our policy of strategic patience has ended, hardening the American position as
Mr. Kim makes steady progress toward two primary goals: shrinking a nuclear weapon to a size
that can fit atop a long-range missile, and developing a hydrogen bomb, with up to a thousand
times the power of the Hiroshima-style weapons he has built so far.

C. Up until this point, Mr. Trump has played his hand militarily, at any rate as mindfully
as his ancestors: A progression of Situation Room gatherings has arrived at the anticipated
conclusion that while the United States can be more forceful, it ought to stop barely shy of
defying the North so frontally that it dangers reviving the Korean War, about 64 years after it
went to an uneasy truce. Still, the present standoff has become just more unstable. It pits
another president's promise never to permit North Korea to put American urban communities at
hazard "It won't occur!" he said on Twitter on Jan. 2 against a youthful, uncertain North
Korean pioneer who sees that ability as his lone assurance of survival.

Your Opinion of the Event (at least 3 sentences).

In my own opinion I understand that both of our countries are well equipped enough to destroy
one another but will eventually end in mutually assured destruction considering our current
stance on technology and defensive equipment

Relate your Event to a Historical Event (compare and contrast with current event).

Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)- Amid the Cuban Missile Crisis, pioneers of the U.S.
furthermore, the Soviet Union occupied with a strained, 13-day political and military standoff in
October 1962 over the establishment of atomic outfitted Soviet rockets on Cuba, only 90 miles
from U.S. shores. In a TV address on October 22, 1962, President John Kennedy (1917-63)
informed Americans about the nearness of the rockets, disclosed his choice to sanction a
maritime barricade around Cuba and made it clear the U.S. was setup to utilize military drive if
important to kill this apparent risk to national security. Taking after this news, many individuals
dreaded the world was on the precarious edge of atomic war. Be that as it may, catastrophe was
maintained a strategic distance from when the U.S. consented to Soviet pioneer Nikita
Khrushchev's (1894-1971) offer to expel the Cuban rockets in return for the U.S. promising not
to attack Cuba. Kennedy likewise subtly consented to expel U.S. rockets from Turkey.
 Relate your Event to the a subtheme (at least 3 sentences).
My event relates to belief systems because of the beliefs they have on war
and destruction upon one another to become a dominant country.
My event also relates to science and technologies because of the missiles
and weaponry they have.
This event also relates to philosophies because of how countries fight and
how they have gained knowledge and strategies to hold up a country.

Questions You Have About the Event (4).

I want to know why blowing each other to smithereens is an option knowing that we can
easily destroy each other.