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    The document outlines key events in North Korea's history from 1945 to 2011, including the country gaining independence after World War 2, the founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea under Kim Il-Sung, the Korean War from 1950-1953, leadership transitions from Kim Il-Sung to Kim Jong-Il to Kim Jong-Un, North Korea conducting nuclear and missile tests starting in 1998 in defiance of international treaties.

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    The document outlines key events in North Korea's history from 1945 to 2011, including the country gaining independence after World War 2, the founding of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea under Kim Il-Sung, the Korean War from 1950-1953, leadership transitions from Kim Il-Sung to Kim Jong-Il to Kim Jong-Un, North Korea conducting nuclear and missile tests starting in 1998 in defiance of international treaties.

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    North Korea Timeline

    by:Jackson Dockery

    1945
    No more Japanese in Korea
    Now Soviet troops are in the north and US
    troops in the south

    1948
    DPRK was created and soviet troops left
    North Korea (democratic peoples republic
    of Korea)
    The founder is Kim Il-Sung

    1950 - 1953
    Korean War

    1994
    Death of Kim Il-Sung
    Kim Jong-Il takes over North Korean power.

    1998
    Korea tests its first multistage long-range
    missile.

    2000
    Inter Korean Summit takes place opening up
    the border office and communication
    between the two countries.

    2002
    George W. Bush declares North Korea as
    well as Iraq and Iran an Axis of Evil for
    continuing to create their own weapons of
    mass destruction.

    2003
    North Korea is no longer apart of the
    Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty so they
    can continue to make nuclear weapons.

    2006
    First underground nuclear tests took place

    2011
    Kim Jong-Il dies
    Kim Jong-Un takes over

    Works Cited
    http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asiapacific-15278612

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