On the evening of 26 March, 2010 North Korea deliberately attacked and sunk the 1, 200 ton Cheonan, a South Korean naval vessel, killing 46 sailors and wounding many more (Mee-young, 2010). Eight months later on 23 November, North Korea unleashed a barrage of artillery fire on the South Korean occupied island of Yeonpyeong near the disputed Yellow Sea border, killing two soldiers and two civilians (Powell, 2010). South Korea retaliated with returning artillery fire, although there was no info...

Once a mystical and distant nation that formed the foundation of the Spice Trade, to one of the first colonies to be attained by the affluent British Empire - India today inhabits one of the poorest and unequal societies in the world. According to the World Bank, more than 80 percent of India’s population of 1.1 billion people lives on less than two-dollars a day. This implies that a third of the world’s poor resides in India (CIA World Fact Book, 2008).  Yet, during 2008 four Indian men ...