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North Korea is not a physically imposing place. It is located on the Korean peninsula also known as the "dagger aimed at the heart of Japan." But it is actually sandwiched in between the south of China and the north of Russia. Although it is a relatively small country it has land with over 75,000 square miles that makes it the 98th largest country in the world.  North Korea has a poor natural endowment that has no source of petroleum, or natural gas to be able to form a natural basis of development.

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For a very long time North Korea has been one of the least inviting places on the face of the earth. The only reason North Korea has for the divide with South Korea is because of the outcome of the war during World War II other than that their should of been no divide. For a lot of the history of Korea it was an independent kingdom on the peninsula. Where the independence ends is when the domination by China which ended in the 300 CE period and the Japanese occupation between 1910 and 1945. In between those times Korea had expectation that their country would be reunified and get independence.

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Relations between North Korea and the United States

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Relations between North Korea and the United States

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The relation between North Korea and the US has been uniformly negative since the Korean War the exact nature and extent of these has varied within a fairly narrow band. The American side is that the key of differences tends to be how or whether we should deal with North Korea directly or even at all. The United States government took a positive posture towards North Korea in the early 1990s as a way to retard the DPRK's nuclear weapon program which lead to the 1994 Framework Agreement. Which then the United States guaranteed the supple of  clear fuel to power their reactors and the badly need grain of supplies. The amount of history the United States and North Korea has is mind blowing with so many different events happening through these times. But the relationship between the United States and DPRK is the most frustrating for the United States because, as Lankov (2010) points out, "the United States and its allies have no efficient methods of coercion at their disposal. The regime is remarkably immune to outside pressure."

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The main problem of the North Korean nuclear weapons is that it is almost as old as the United States and DPRK relations dating back to the Korean War. Besides the fact of creating a general atmosphere of hostility and tension, nuclear weapons were in the background of the war and its aftermath. The nuclear program has been ongoing in the DPRK for at least a half of century. In 2006, North Korea announced that they were now prepared "to declare itself formally as a nuclear weapons state." After on and off with negotiations being held during 2007 and 2008 and punctuated in April and May 2009. At that time North Korea announced the indefinite suspensions of the six-power talks, expelled International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors from their nuclear faculties, conducted multiple missile tests, and reportedly exploded a nuclear device underground. The North Koreans were advanced with design facilities that can produce weapons-grade plutonium which was a higher rate than the older designs the DPRK possessed, which allowed the country the ability to fabricate more bombs fast than otherwise assumed. These issues has been on the top of the United States list of issues with DPRK. Which makes this an ongoing source of annoyance in an American perspective and a policy debate that extends to other major areas of the relations with the United States and DPRK.

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In conclusion the relations between the United States and North Korea have been difficult, negative, and even strange since the end of World War II. Both countries introduced themselves to one another in the 3 years of blood shed since the Korean War began in 1950, a war that is still continuous to this day and has punctuated by the 2 countries. Which makes this situation the most ironic and arguably tragic because American desire to prevent the DPRK from trying to bring back the Korean War. The very sharp point of the confrontation is the existence and evolution of the North Korean nuclear arsenal, a problem that the United States desperately wants to obviate and make go away.