Why does n korea hate usa

Hating America was ideological and indeed tribal. Regardless the North would have overrun South Korea had the Americans not intervened. We will not go into the rights and wrongs of warfare, or what is acceptable, but North Korea was arguably the most bombed country on earth and was left demolished by the end of the war.

The US also allegedly committed a number of war crimes. When you have a war against country and when a peace treaty is never signed then animosity undauntedly remains. Never underestimate the affects war between two countries have on a national mentality. One merely has to look at the modern view of China towards Japan, or even the Cambodian view on US bombing of their country. A bombing that many feel led to the victory of the Khmer Rouge.

To read about who won the Korean War click here. Once more this is not a political statement, but an interpretation of how the DPRK see things from their eyes. The Chinese volunteers who helped counter the UN troops slowly withdrew from North Korea between There was a mutual defense treaty , but no foreign troops on the soil of the DPRK.

The same cannot be said for the Republic of Korea. Because of this it is also the northern view that the US occupies South Korea, that South Korea is a puppet government and that it is squarely the US and its running dogs that have prevented Korean reunification. To read what the North Korean view on reunification is click here. Whilst the officials state ideology of North Korea is Juche, it is communist and Marxist-Leninist in nature.

That means the state owning things, not foreign companies. To read about Juche click here. There is no open trade with North Korea. North Korea therefore view America as an exploitatives capitalist bully of a nation that merely wants to control theirs and other economies through economic Neo-Colonialism. And to be fair it is not just North Korea that hold this view, rightly, or wrongly.

There are many arguments why North Korea pursued a nuclear weapons program, but the most prevalent was for regime survival. Another reason why they do not want to give them up. The Libya model being a prime example of why they perhaps feel this way. It was this nuclear weapons program that has steadily turned North Korea into the most sanctioned country that has ever existed in the modern world.

Again we will not get into the politics, or rightness, or wrongness of sanctions, but sanctions affect countries greatly, from civilians right up to the top brass. This is after all the main reasons for them existing. The 5 year Trump presidency was a very strange affair from a global point of view.

Much of America was extremely marginalized and the world was very much a different place during his presidency. One of the most interesting, yet controversial episodes of this was the friendship and two meetings between President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-Un. You can read about our trip to the Vietnam summit here. This was the biggest detente in North Korea and US relations since the formation of the country. During this period not only did North Korean state propaganda say nice things about America, but the rhetoric was very much toned down.

Interestingly much of the Anti-US propaganda was taken down from the streets and unavailable for purchase by tourists. At least for a time. Certainly when there was hopes of peace and US investment in North Korea the state was very much prepared to change hatred into at least a tacit respect. Pompeo dismisses N. Korea's 'gangster' comments. Kim Jong Un snubbed Mike Pompeo, source says. Bolton: US has plan for denuclearizing N. Satellite images show missile plant construction.

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By the time the armistice was signed on July 27, , North Korea -- which began the war with a population of 9. South Korea, meanwhile, suffered up to 3 million civilian and , military casualties, from a total population of around Douglas MacArthur, a legendary figure in the US military who went on to become the commander-in-chief of the United Nations Command at the onset of the war, said during a congressional hearing in that he had never seen such devastation.

Read More. The war was one that many were reluctant to join, coming as it did just five years after the end of World War II. More than 33, Americans were killed in the fighting and , from the Chinese military -- who joined to protect their fellow communist neighbors -- were left dead or missing. The Chinese and the Americans went home after the fighting, but North Koreans stayed amid the ruins of the battle -- their entire infrastructure decimated, their towns and cities completely obliterated.

Though the armistice date holds some significance in the United States -- the US will start the process of banning Americans from travel to North Korea Thursday -- the legacy of destruction was and remains a key piece of propaganda for Kim Il Sung, his son Kim Jong Il and his grandson Kim Jong Un, who now rules the country.

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