Old wars vs New wars

Cuban missile crisis - North Korean missile test

Wars never ended, the world could not live in peace, nowadays there are less wars than time ago, but situations of battle and comfrontations still appearing on our daily life. In relation with the present, there are many fights between countries but to compare the event of the Cuban missile crisis may be use the newest event about The North Korean missile test of 2017.

Firstly, the Cuban missile crisis was a confrontation between Usa (Kennedy) - Soviet Union and Cuba (Castro). Usa was involved in Cuban islands since they owned most of their businesses and they had naval bases there. But Castro wanted to run Cuba without interference and he was negotiating with the Soviet Union who supplied arms and other escential things to Castro so Usa broke off their diplomatic relationship. The conflict started there and the drop that overflowed the glass was the Bay of Pigs invasion in wich Usa failed disastrously. Cuba with helped had the best-equipped army in Latin America and Americans watched all this with great alarm and Kennedy was ready to used whatever might be neccesay, saying that he was not scared of using nuclear missiles. Days after, an American U2 spy plane flew over Cuba and found that they were equipped with nuclear missiles and many ships so as to attack. On october 1962, Kennedy formed the Ex Comm organisation were they talk about five tactical ideas but they finished with a blockade in Cuba telling them to withdraw their missiles and arms.





Secondly, the North Korean missile test was a confrontation between Usa (Trump) - North Korea (Kim jong-un). Usa was infiltrated in the surrounders of Korea and political conflicts broke up North Korean president's patience so he threatened Usa with new nuclear missiles that could damage the heart of United States so Trump said that he should often send them "Gift packages" so they won´t be too bored. Korean president was penalized by the UN because of the violations of a ban nuclear missile tests. Usa had hoped North Korea would stop short of developing a long-range missiles, but with the time we will know it. The main reason why Korea develops this nuclear programme is as she felts threatened by the USA, South Korea and Japan since the Korean Peninsula was interfering by these countries.



North Korean army:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO-2M13UbKY


In one hand, this two cases had many similarities since both appeared nuclear bases with nuclear arms-missiles. Both were rivarly in the way of Communism versus Capitalism. Usa presidents tries to solved both problems with the US opinion and respecting the law and the diplomatic relationships.

On the other hand, the two cases had also many differences, in the case of Cuba, they were helped with by the Soviet Union and the Korean Missile test not at all. Usa did not have to investigate about the Korean's plans and if they were using missiles and not obeying the law because their president announced it himself, whereas in the case of Cuba, Kennedy had to send secret U2 spy planes so as to investigate if they were using or not.

To conclude, there are many cases that have a lot of difference and similarities like this example because war never ended and humans could not live in peace, they want always something more and I think that is late to change this.

Bibliography:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/04/world/asia/north-korea-missile-test-icbm.html

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