The Winter Olympics in south korea. And in sport, fans at stadiums across the country remember Cyrille Regis the former england player described as a trailblazer for black footballers. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. The Us National Government has officially shut down, a year to the day after Donald Trump Took Office as president. Senators failed to agree a stop gap budget amid a bitter dispute between President Trumps republicans and the opposition democrats over immigration and border security. David willis reports from washington. The ayes 50 and the noes 49. With a midnight deadline looming, they came up short of the 60 votes needed, and without a Funding Agreement in place, the government of the largest economy in a world was now only minutes away from shutdown. Three fifths of the senators duly chosen and sworn not having voted in the affirmative, the motion is not agreed to. That after the democrat leader in the senate, chuck schumer, had an hour long meeting with Presiden
Going to talk a little bit about Civil Military relations. Last time we met we talked about the cold war and the development of containment. Korea was an unusual situation in that it had been a colony of japans since 1910, during the Second World War there was fighting in korea, the u. S. And the soviet union jointly occupied korea and they agreed to divide korea. Now, northern korea, that is what we call today north korea was very much communist influenced. Southern korea, which we now call south korea was a very different situation. With the assistance of the u. N. They sponsored elections in south korea and South Koreans elected a democratic government. North korea, however, wanted to unite under its terms and so it sent inser jents into south korea to try and overthrow that government and they failed to do so. Then, in january of 1950, the u. S. Secretary of state dean ach inson made a significant error. In a speech talking about the areas of influence and positions that were vital
Korean war and Civil Military relations. His class is about an hour. Today im going to talk about the korean war and were going to talk a little bit about Civil Military relations. Last time we met we talked about the cold war and the development of containment. Korea was an unusual situation in that it had been a colony of japans since 1910, during the Second World War there was fighting in korea, the u. S. And the soviet union jointly occupied korea and they agreed to divide korea. Now, northern korea, that is what we call today north korea was very much communist influenced. Southern korea, which we now call south korea was a very different situation. With the assistance of the u. N. They sponsored elections in south korea and South Koreans elected a democratic government. North korea, however, wanted to unite under its terms and so it sent inser jents into south korea to try and overthrow that government and they failed to do so. Then, in january of 1950, the u. S. Secretary of sta
University of north korea at chapel hill Professor Joseph glatthaar teaches about the korean war and Civil Military relations. His class is about an hour. Today im going to talk about the korean war and were going to talk a little bit about Civil Military relations. Last time we met we talked about the cold war and the development of containment. Korea was an unusual situation in that it had been a colony of japans since 1910, during the Second World War there was fighting in korea, the u. S. And the soviet union jointly occupied korea and they agreed to divide korea. Now, northern korea, that is what we call today north korea was very much communist influenced. Southern korea, which we now call south korea was a very different situation. With the assistance of the u. N. They sponsored elections in south korea and South Koreans elected a democratic government. North korea, however, wanted to unite under its terms and so it sent inser jents into south korea to try and overthrow that gov
Second world war that was fighting in korea and the u. S. And soviet union and they agreed to divide korea. Northern korea, that is what we call today north korea was very much communist influenced and southern korea which we now call south korea was a very different situation. With the assistance of the u. N. They sponsored elections in south korea and the South Koreans elected a democratic government. North korea, however, wanted to unite under its terms and so it sent insurgents to try to overthrow that government and they failed to do so. Then in january of 1950, the u. S. Secretary of state dean achsac atchison made a significant error. In a speech talking about the areas of influence and positions that were vital to the United States interest, he mentioned japan and the philippines and omitted south korea. The North Koreans interpreted that as a statement that the u. S. Wouldnt go to war to defend south korea. And so in june 1950, armed with soviet equipment and aided by the chin