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• The internal conflict in Myanmar (also known as Burma) refers to fighting between government
soldiers and rebels in Myanmar
• started shortly after the country separated from the United Kingdom in 1948
• The government of Myanmar has fought different rebel groups from different ethnic minorities
KAREN CONFLICT
• Karen Conflict has been described as one of the world's "longest running civil wars
• It is an ongoing armed conflict in Myanmar (Burma) and is a part of the internal conflict in Myanmar
• The Karen nationalist movement has been fighting for more autonomy and/or independence within
Burma
• The Karen people have been fighting for an independent Karen state since 1949
RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC CONFLICTS
• The relations began in 1945 with the division of Korea at the end of World War II
• Inter-Korean relations are the political, commercial, diplomatic, and military interactions
between Republic of Korea
• NK and SK have been locked in a conflict which erupted into open warfare in 1950 with the Korean
War and which has continued ever since
• According to a 2017 Korea Institute for National Unification, 58% of South Korean citizens had
responded that unification is necessary
THE DIFFERENCE IN IDEOLOGY
• South Korea wants to reunite with democratic, capitalistic ways, but North Korea wants to reunite
under Juche ideaology
• South Korea wants democratically elected president as the leader, while North wants Kim Jong Un and
his descendants to rule over the country
• South Korea wants Capitalism to fuel its economy. North wants North Korean version of Communism
DIVISION OF KOREA
• On August 9, 1945, in the closing days of World War Two, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and
advanced into Korea
• The Allies had originally envisaged a joint trusteeship which would usher Korea towards independence
• In North Korea, the Soviet Union supported Korean Communists. Kim Il-sung, who from 1941 had
served in the Soviet Army, became the major political figure
• Politics in the South was more tumultuous, but the strongly anti-Communist Syngman Rhee emerged as
the most prominent politician
KOREAN WAR
• North Korea invaded the South on June 25, 1950, and swiftly overran most of the country
• In September 1950 the United Nations force, led by the United States, intervened to defend the South,
and advanced into North Korea
• Large numbers of people were displaced as a result of the war, and many families were divided by the
reconstituted border
• In 2007 it was estimated that around 750,000 people remained separated from immediate family
members, and family reunions have long been a diplomatic priority for the South
COLD WAR
• Competition between North and South Korea became key to decision-making on both sides
• Tensions escalated in the late 1960s with a series of low-level armed clashes known as the Korean DMZ
Conflict
• North Korea suspended talks in 1973 after the kidnapping of South Korean opposition leader Kim Dae-
jung by the Korean CIA
FOREIGN RELATIONS OF JAPAN
• Foreign relations of Japan are handled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan
• Japanese foreign relations had to begin in 1945, when it was defeated in war and stripped of all of its
foreign conquests and possessions
• Japanese diplomatic policy has been based on close partnership with the United States
• Beyond its immediate neighbors, Japan has pursued a more active foreign policy in recent years,
recognizing the responsibility which accompanies its economic strength
LIST OF WARS INVOLVING JAPAN
• Japan has diplomatic relations with nearly all independent nations and has been an active member of
the UN since December 1956
• Its relations with countries other than those discussed earlier are mainly commercial and economic
• The continued growth of Japan's foreign aid appears to be motivated by two fundamental factors
• Although cultural and noneconomic ties with Western Europe grew significantly during the 1980s
CHINA-JAPAN RELATIONS
• China and Japan have gone to war three times since 1894
• The rise of China over the last thirty years has dispelled the notion that the two powers will never fight
again
• China’s military, fueled by decades of double-digit budget increases, is now the region’s largest
• The most likely way war could break out between the two powers is through an escalating crisis
• The United States and Japan have been close allies for more than fifty years
• The United States and Japan might also go to war with North Korea