The Situation of the two Koreas

nowadays.
For this part, we will take the year 2010 as a starting point for the “current situation”.

In 2013, North Korea launched a second rocket test. The United Nations got involved in that
problem and punish the country with different issues such as the ban of tourism for example.
As an answer to those punishment, North Korea cancelled the ceasefire agreement established
in 1953 between them and South Korea. They, after that, started re-armament to be able to
counter any surprise attack. For example, after the fifth nuclear test of Kim Jong-Un in 2016,
they deployed in 2016 the “THAAD”, which is an anti-missile system. They also developed a
plan to destroy Pyongyang (Capital of North Korea) if there were too much signs of a nuclear
attack from the North.

Early in the year 2017, Moon Jae-in was elected President of South Korea. He promised in his
campaign to re-establish the “Sunshine Policy” abandoned in 2010 by the Minister of
Unification. 2017 was also a year of tension between the USA and North Korea. That was due
to provocation from the both sides: North Korea wanted to launch their sixth rocket test,
which would follow by further sanctions from The United Nations, but North Korea did not
care and send a test rocket the 29 August 2017. The UN gave them other sanctions again, but
it did not end there. Trump threated North Korea on Twitter telling them that a violent war
could start if they continued with their tests (He also called him Rocket Man, which did not
help the situation). Kim Jong-Un launched 3 other missiles during the following weeks, even
with the sanctions given by the UN each time they tested a rocket.

In January 2018, a meeting was organized in Vancouver to increase the effect that had the
sanctions on North Korea. They wanted to persuade North Korea to denuclearize their country
and to try to create conditions for a more diplomatic solution. Later, on 27 April, Kim Jong-
Un and Moon Jae-in met, after he received an invitation to visit the North part of the
peninsula. They found an agreement to denuclearized the country and formalize peace
between the two Koreas. Then, on 12 June, the North Korean leader met the president of the
United States of America, Donald Trump, at a summit in Singapore which led to different
agreements between the two countries. Finally, in September 2018, Kim met Moon in
Pyongyang. The North Korean leader agreed to dismantle his nuclear weapons, but only under
certain conditions. Other agreements were made between the two Koreas, which created a
possibility of peace for the two countries.