https://padlet.com/wthomas51_1/lu2rdcqkz1srcfs7 en-us 2021-05-17 15:10:21 UTC 2021-05-17 16:03:46 UTC hello@padlet.com wthomas51_1 https://padlet.com/wthomas51_1/lu2rdcqkz1srcfs7/wish/1531902901 1994 - In 1994 North Korea started a process in which they would be able to create multiple nuclear weapons. This would be very dangerous for the US and the rest of the world, so a plan to stop the nuclearization was needed. Clinton was in office at this time and had many options to choose from to deal with the problem. He could have been harsh and direct or try to make good relations with North Korea in order to stop their escalation. He didn't want to accidentally turn North Korea against the US, so the administration decided on the latter. The Clinton organization and North Korea agreed on a Deal called the Agreed Framework, which told North Korea to shut down their nuclear facilities.

]]> 2021-05-17 15:55:59 UTC https://padlet.com/wthomas51_1/lu2rdcqkz1srcfs7/wish/1531902901 wthomas51_1 https://padlet.com/wthomas51_1/lu2rdcqkz1srcfs7/wish/1531917444 2001-2003 - In 2001 George W Bush took the presidential office. Leading up to his presidency North Korea was in the process of finishing shutting down all nuclear plants, but was still occasionally testing nuclear missiles. The Bush administration wanted that over, he wanted the people of the world to feel safe and comfortable and not feel that at any point North Korea could just send a missile and demolish a whole city. Bush didn't want to be like Clinton and leave the ball in their court to shut down production so he and his administration took a stricter approach to the situation. The US and North Korea went back and forth making claims about one another, Bush even labeled North Korea one of three “axis of evil” in his State of the Union address. North Korea was enraged, all the international inspectors that were stationed there to keep track of North Korea's nuclear science were ordered out of the country. From that moment, the Agreed Framework was destroyed and North Korea was back to being a threat, even admitting in 2003 that they had at least one nuclear weapon.]]> 2021-05-17 15:58:54 UTC https://padlet.com/wthomas51_1/lu2rdcqkz1srcfs7/wish/1531917444 wthomas51_1 https://padlet.com/wthomas51_1/lu2rdcqkz1srcfs7/wish/1531925967 2003-2006 - Starting in late 2003 the Bush administration started to try to make amends with North Korea along with five other countries. The six party talks were started. These were discussions between The US, South Korea, Japan, North Korea, Russia and China to make amends on denuclearization, energy and relations. By 2005 an agreement was met, once again North Korea would stop its nuclear weapons program, allowing inspectors back into the country to keep tabs on what was going on nuclearly. In exchange for the peace the other countries that were in the talks would assist North Korea in creating stronger energy sources. The US and Japan also agreed to create better relations with North Korea. These relations only lasted a short amount of time and by the end of 2006 North Korea was back to testing missiles and hating the US.

]]> 2021-05-17 16:00:37 UTC https://padlet.com/wthomas51_1/lu2rdcqkz1srcfs7/wish/1531925967 wthomas51_1 https://padlet.com/wthomas51_1/lu2rdcqkz1srcfs7/wish/1531932192 2006-2011 - Up to this point North Korea had tested plenty of missiles but none of them were actually nuclear. Though it had been many years since North Korea admitted they had nuclear weapons they had yet to test any of them. This changed in October 2006 when they set off a nuclear blast. This explosion was only a fifteenth the size of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima but still had the ability to do a devastating amount of damage. The world revolted against North Korea for this move and the United Nations forced North Korea to once again shut down their plants. They agreed but the agreement was broken again in May of 2009 when North Korea set off yet another nuclear explosion, this time more than five times the size of their first. Relations worldwide with North Korea were unstable as ever, they had gone back and forth on their agreements about nuclearization over and over. To top off the instability at the end of 2011, 17 year North Korea leader Kim Jong Il died and left his son in his place.

]]> 2021-05-17 16:01:52 UTC https://padlet.com/wthomas51_1/lu2rdcqkz1srcfs7/wish/1531932192 wthomas51_1 https://padlet.com/wthomas51_1/lu2rdcqkz1srcfs7/wish/1531937273 2017 - At the start of 2017 North Korea achieved two scary goals. They successfully test fired their first intercontinental ballistic missile and successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. The missle they tested had enough reach that they could easily hit Alaska. North Korea was more of a threat than ever, and new president Donald Trump would not have it. Trump was quoted saying that if The US needed to defend itself or its allies there would be “No choice but to totally destroy North Korea.” This started the feud between President Trump and Kim Jong Un. Kim responded to Trump's speech by calling Trump “mentally deranged” and that he would “Pay dearly.” These back and forths were frightening the country as it seemed every day of arguments was another day closer to nuclear war. Kim Jong Un even said at one point “A nuclear button is always on the desk of my office.” War seemed inevitable due to the two leaders' egos, a war that would see the end of millions of lives.

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