North Korea

North Korea, formally the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is neither democratic nor for the people, but is a republic in the north of the Korean Peninsula. It is infamous for being a totalitarian dictatorship, keeping its population isolated from the rest of the world and ruling with great brutality. Every so often it will make threatening noises towards Japan or its neighbour South Korea.

You really don't want them to have giant robots.

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

In the 1950s, the United States of America was involved in the Korean War against North Korea. Sparkplug Witwicky would be captured by North Korean soldiers and forced to use his mechanical skills for them, but he secretly sabotaged the vehicles he was 'fixing'. He considered himself lucky they knew he had skills, or they might do unspecified, horrible things to him. The Last Stand

2007 Transformers film

Following the destruction of a SOCCENT Forward Operations Base and the subsequent hacking of the U.S. Defense Network, North Korea was pointed to as one of the nations that might have dunnit. U.S. naval forces were increased in the Yellow Sea as a result, and North Korea doubled its naval activity in response to that. In response to that, a large number of U.S. soldiers and armour were sent in the general direction of North Korea.

Once Tom Banachek informed the Pentagon about the alien nature of the threat, U.S. forces were pulled back. Transformers

2005 IDW continuity

An international incident was building with North Korea until the Decepticons invaded and distracted everyone. North Korea then went quiet for three years, with Kim Jong Du coming to power without anyone being clear when. (North Korea may have been attacked itself) Under Du's rule, North Korea began manufacturing energon in order to attract Decepticons as allies. They secured the services of the Combaticons and used them as the spearhead for an invasion of South Korea. The Land Ironclads The Autobots were able to drive the Combaticons back there and tried to neutralise them on North Korean soil, Hawk Among the Sparrows which they succeeded in doing: the battle caused Russia to launch a nuclear missile at the area though, which was only just intercepted. The problem was decisively resolved when the Autobots had Thundercracker destroy all of North Korea's energon plants, preventing them from attracting any more Decepticons.

And apparently the country then got away with allying with hostile alien robots to invade places! All My Sins Remembered

External links

• North Korea at Wikipedia