North Korea launches two short-range missiles Madana Kloss 4th 

    On March 1, North Korea launched two short range missiles between the Korean Peninsula and Japan into the Yellow Sea at approximately 6:32 a.m. and 6:41 a.m. North Korea has been conducting artillery tests nonstop since last year. This created an increased tension, with  the North Korean rhetoric, which included promises of nuclear strikes on Washington and Seoul.
    North Korea has expressed their dissatisfaction with the US's military relations with South Korea. Hours before the missiles were launched, North Korea offered to suspend any nuclear tests if the US stopped their military drills with South Korea, but the US refused, calling it an "implicit threat". Since it would only be temporary, the US doesn't believe North Koreans because if they are dissatisfied with the US or South Korea, they would immediately turn to nuclear weapons. The allies claim that the military drills are a defense mechanism; however North Koreans claim that these military drills are being conducted to prepare to invade the North's capital of Pyongyang. The Korean Peninsula is still in a state of war since the Korean War, which created an armistice line, and not a peace treaty.
    This connects to US history  because the US helped defend South Korea in the Korean War when North Korea tried to unite the two nations under a Communist state. During the North Korean War, their was a lot of tension between the two sides, and right now their is a lot of tension because of the US involvement and North Korean's nuclear threats.

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