Interdependence and cooperation are generally what is needed when a war of some sort breaks out. I am going to explore whether there was any signs of these in the Korean War and the Rwandan genocide, and to what extent these took place.

The Korean War is an example of interdependence because of the alliances formed between certain countries and organisations. Korea is divided up at the 38th parallel which for North Korea seemingly wasn’t enough land. They wanted to make it a wholly communist state, and to then move over to japan and take that also. They formed up with China (also a wholly communist state) to give them more of a driving force. South Korea couldn’t fight this battle on their own so the UN sent in troops from Britain, America and Australia to aid them. This battle was an end-to-end battle with both sides taking large chunks of the other side and vice versa. By the end of this nothing much had been changed except from the fact that 2.5 million civilians were killed or wounded; 990, 968 approx. South Korean’s (including Britain, Australia and America) were killed or wounded and 1,550,000 North Koreans were killed or wounded (Including The Soviet Union and China).

The Rwandan Genocide is an example when interdependence was not present within a conflict. It was Generally the Tutsi tribe slaughtering 800,000 people from the Hutu tribe in retaliation to the shooting down of the Tutsi’s leader’s plane. President Habyarimana (the Tutsi’s leader who got shot down) was Rwanda’s current president at the time of this attack. The reason for this horrendous genocide was because the Tutsi’s were scared that without their leader they would be taken over by the Hutu’s because the Hutu’s had 70% more people in their tribe in Rwanda. This was a Tribe on Tribe attack and the need for support on either side was not present at all.

After the Korean War things