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My paper will be about North Korea’s transition to a new regime. After reflecting on materials that we’ve already read, there is a need to have a collaboration by the major players surrounding the Korean Peninsula. The three countries that I want to investigate are China, Russia, and the U.S. To understand the history of these three countries and the current political situation that will lead to a peaceful transition of a new North Korean regime. Throughout the years, there have been many fluctuation’s in the relationship of these three countries. Some years China, Russia, and the United States seem to have similar motives, but yet so different at the same time. Furthermore, the last thing that any of these …show more content…

In addition, I don’t believe that a unified Korea is the best scenario. The only way for a unified Korean Peninsula is the withdrawal of US troops, and for China to control the peninsula. However, there is no way that South Korea would be willing to hand over political power to China. In addition, there is concern about the the irreverability of these arrangements. If the United States were to entirely pull their troops out of South Korea, then it would be an irreversible action, since they would lose the support of Korean Nationalist’s. This is where we would need to come up with a different arrangement. Furthermore, we would need a third actor to intervene to stabilize the situation in North Korea. If Russia can be included in the secret conversations about a regime transition, then maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel. Already Russia and China have economic relations. In addition, Russia is the only other country besides China and South Korea to border North Korea. Already Russia has economic ties with North Korea. They’ve helped them out humanitarily and with some basic infrastructure that connects North Korea to Russia. Therefore, Russia will

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