nationalist/capitalist democracy south of 38th parallel. After the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. imposed their own style of government on Korea came the formation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korean in the north and in the south was the Republic of Korea, in 1948. With the differences between the two governments the people were pushed apart. There were attempts to bring Korea back to a whole but it just ended up in the Korean War.With the onset of the Korean War the United States decided to help the South Koreans because of the help that the North Koreans were getting by the Russians. Eventually the U.S. decided to send troops. After a long battle and an astonishing number of deaths the war was back at the 38th parallel. General Douglas MacArthur, who was the commander of the U.N. forces in Korea, wanted North Korea’s defeat and to invade China. This was not what Harry S. Truman wanted to do at all. Since the two had different opinions and MacArthur’s were strong Truman replaced MacArthur as commander.After the end of the Korean War Korea was unchanged. The north is still a communist government and the south is still a capitalistic society. The people that reside in Korea still remain Korean. After all the people of Korea have gone through they have kept their rich Korean culture. Since the end of the Cold War between the U.S. and the former U.S.S.R., Korea has kept the war alive. Sine communism is still alive in North Korea and the South is still capitalistic government, which creates tension between the two. Korea is a land of a diverse environment. North Korea and South Korea are both covered with mountains and vast lush vegetation runs down the center of the nation. Rivers and wide plains are found on the western side of the nation and when looking at pictures from space you can see that Korea as a whole does not differ much in the landscape. This peninsula even has the same climate throughout and an abundance o...
