Project on the Conflict between the two Korean Countries.

1. NORTH KOREA VS. SOUTH KOREA CONFLICT
NICHOLAS BODLOVICK CMS 200

2. WHEN IT ALL STARTED
 After World War II North Korea and South Korea
were divided into two countries. North Korea was
owned by the Soviet and South Korea was owned
by the United States.
 In 1950 North Korea attacked South Korea causing
a war from 1950-1953.
 Today a conflict still occurs between the two
countries and have not settled their differences.
Until North Korea gets a new leader that wants to
make a positive change in North Korea, then the
two countries can unite and be one country again.

3. WHY IS THERE CONFLICT?
 “North Korea is a dictator led Communist State.
South Korea is Republic with a vibrant economy
and a strong Capitalistic structure. The two
concepts are incompatible.”

4. METHOD
 I conducted an anonymous survey to view peoples
perspective on the conflict of N.Korea and S.Korea. I
wanted to know how they felt about the tension between
both countries, what they think about the tension
between them, and also what should be done in order to
maintain a peaceful balance between the countries. I
had a total of 20 people involved in the survey. Half of
the people who did the survey are currently serving in
our Military. I did a comparison survey between military
perspective and civilian perspective and I wanted to
know why they chose the answer they chose. In the
survey I also showed had a link from YouTube, about
the artillery rounds that were finding into South Korea by
North Korea, killing two South Korean Marines.

5. QUESTIONS FROM THE SURVEY (1 – 5PT
SCALE)
 1. Don’t care, 2.Somewhat care, 3. Moderate,4. Agree,
5. Strongly Agree.
 Question(1) Do you care about the tension between
N.Korea and S.Korea.
 Question(2) Do you agree that N.Korea and S.Korea
should come into equal terms and become 1 country
again?
 Question(3)Do you think North Koreas military should
turn on their leader and have a Positive figure take over
the country?
 Question(4) Do you think the Media portrays a different
image on both countries?
 Question(5) Do you want to go to War against N.Korea?

6. ANSWER TO QUESTION 1 AVG. SCORE
 Civilians Avg Pts.  Military Avg Pts.
 2.4pts was the Avg  4.6pts was the Avg
score. score.
 It seemed that many  An answer I got from
civilians did not care one of the participants
much for the survey. was, “I care about the
One of the answers tension because I do
that I got was, “It has not want to go to war
nothing to do with and I don’t want to see
us, so why does it my friends get killed”.
matter?”

7. ANSWER TO QUESTION 2 AVG. SCORE
 Civilians  Military
 3.8pts was the Avg.  2.7pts
score.  Answer: “No because I
 Answer: “Yes because I find it that if both
find it, that it would be countries are
easier for both collaborated together, it
countries just to have would be a mess and
one leader and there still would be
everybody can live some personal tension
happily together”. between people of
N.Korea and S.Korea”

8. ANSWER TO QUESTION 3 AVG. SCORE
 Civilians  Military
 4.5pts was the Avg. score.  4.8pts was the Avg. score.
 Answer: “If the military  Answer: “The only thing that
turned against their evil worries me is if we get
dictators and had a leader dragged into something like
with positive views and this, what if half of the
changes, then the country military turns on each other
would be a better place”. and fight against each other
and we have to go out and
help. Not my kind of War,
but on the positive note, if
they had a new leader that
wanted to make the country
better then I wouldn’t mind if
N.Korea military turned on
their current leader.”

9. ANSWER TO QUESTION 4 AVG. SCORE
 Civilians  Military
 3.5pts was the Avg.  2.2pts was the Avg.
Score. Score
 Answer: “I personally  Answer: “What you see is
think that the media does what you get. N.Korea is
portray a different image a ghost town just like the
of both countries media portrays it to be
because there is and South Korea, it’s like
probably more to the living in New York
tension then we already City, it’s a happy place to
know. I feel like there is be living in”.
more to be revealed
about both sides”.

10. ANSWER TO QUESTION 5 AVG. SCORE
 Civilian  Military
 Avg. Score: 1.5pts  Avg. Score: 2.3pts
 Answer: “If we have to  Answer: “I don’t want to
go to war, then yes I go to war, but I do have
think we should” a lot of friends who are
South Korean and are
serving in the military,
so I would want to be
there to support them.”

11. DISCUSSION
 With the results, I found that both sides pretty much
have mutual feelings towards the tension between
both countries. What I noticed though from the
people who are serving in our country is that they
know more about the tensions between both
countries than people who portray it in the media
and people who think they know much about the
tension. What I found is that tension is very serious
and anything bad could happen at any given
moment. One of my friends who is stationed over
there tells me that he gets called to the “field”,
because the tension rises highly everyday and war
could happen any moment.

12. THEORY
 The theory that I chose for this topic was Social
Conflict Theory. I chose social conflict theory
because it’s a theory about differences between
both sides “two different types, classes, culture, and
etc of individuals”. Since this topic is about Conflict,
this is the best theory that would described this
topic.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_conflict_theory

13. MY FINAL THOUGHTS ON THE CONFLICT
 I think that the tension between both countries
should end. Most of the conflict is from North
Korea. The new leader Kim Jung Un, should
change his thoughts on the country of North Korea
and make it a better place for everybody. I don’t
want the countries to go to war because there will
be many deaths if it happens.

14. VIDEOS AND LINKS
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipJkRcUoaN8
 ^ This is the news report from Fox news about the
artillery rounds that were fired into South Korea,
killing 2 South Korea Marines.
 http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/north-korea-
issues-unusually-specific-threat-152720861.html
 ^ Current news between the conflict of N.Korea
against S.Korea. North Korea threatened to burn
South Korea to the ground and kill the S.Korean
President.