Many events have occurred in the past that change individuals' perspectives towards people and countries. In the situation of North Korea, a country viewed negatively, people see their government as cruel, crooked, and unwilling. Many don't understand how this happened. Events such as the Holocaust changed the views of those who created North Korea. But what did these events do to the county itself? These events changed many things in the land of North Korea, leading them to go to war with their own people and separate into two countries. During this war, North America sided with South Korea and generated a conflict between the United States and North Korea. The beginning of North Korea all began on Russian soil when immigrants moved to Russia from Korea for economic reasons. When the Koreans came to Russia and settled, they founded a group of the Russian Communist Party under the Bolsheviks. Eventually, these Soviet Koreans became known as the “Irkutsk” group. All operations conducted in Irkutsk were to be supervised by the Bolsheviks through the Comintern. The Comintern, better known as the Communist International, had the mission of “organizing the working class of the world for the overthrow of the capitalist order and the establishment of communism.” As the Irkutsk group grew, they looked toward their leader, a man named Kim II Sung, who was the commander of the Soviet Army's First Korean Battalion. Ultimately, Kim II Sung became the supreme leader of the emerging North Korean state. After multiple missions completed by Kim II Sung, he returned to Korea in August 1945. In late August 1945, the Soviet Army gained full control of the northern... middle of paper.... ..Korea: New Perspectives (Colorado: Westview Press, 1987, Seoul, Kyungnam University Press), 225. Jae-Jung Suh et al., Origins of North Korea's Juche: Colonialism, War, and Development (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2013 ), 33; Park et al, The Foreign Relations, 255.Michael O'Hanlon and Mike Mochizuki, Crisis on the Korea Peninsula: How to Deal with a Nuclear North Korea (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003), 146.Lankov, The Real North Korea, 147; Choe, S. H. (2009, May 25). NORTH KOREA CLAIMS TO HAVE TESTED A NUCLEAR DEVICE. New York Times (file 1923-current). Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1030641119?accountid=14902Lankov, The Real North Korea, 230.BARBARA CROSSETTE. “80,000 children die in North Korea, says UN.” New York Times (1923-Current File), August 9, 1997, http://search.proquest.com/docview/109806747?accountid=14902 (accessed December 11, 2013).