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Decades of tensions between North Korea and US

Name: Decades of tensions between North Korea and US
Uploaded: 2017-09-24T19:23:53Z
Duration: 2 min 50 s
Description: North Korea’s tensions with the US go back to the Korean War in the 1950s. Between 1950 and 1953, the US dropped more than 600,000 tons of explosives devastating the Korean peninsula.

North Korea’s tensions with the US go back to the Korean War in the 1950s. Between 1950 and 1953, the US dropped more than 600,000 tons of explosives devastating the Korean peninsula.

North Korea’s tensions with the US go back to the Korean War in the 1950s.

Between 1950 and 1953, the US dropped more than 600,000 tons of explosives devastating the Korean peninsula, which remains divided to this day – and North Korea never forgave the US.

Al Jazeera’s Duncan Crawford explains.