Joint Security Area (JSA) is a South Korean film that deals with the relationship between North Korea and South Korea. In the film, two North Korean soldiers are murdered near the confine. Sophie, an official from the Neutral Nations Oversight Commission, investigates the incident. With evidence and information, try to discover the truth about the accident. In JSA, the incident is set in 1999. North and South Korea were divided after the end of the Korean War in 1953. Although about 50 years have passed since the division, its influences remain and the film describes. This article will discuss the JSA's treatment of the North Korean people and the prospects of Korean reunification by referring to other resources. First of all, in comparison to Know Your Enemy: Japan, I will discuss how the JSA describes the North Korean people. . Know Thy Enemy: Japan is a documentary film made in 1945, to encourage hostility towards the Japanese people. The film emphasizes the “unity” of the Japanese people. For example, the film uses scenes of Japanese people working hard while a narrator explains that everyone in Japan has the same ambition to conquer the world. Therefore, since the film suggests that all Japanese have the same desire to conquer the world, everyone in Japan is portrayed as an enemy. In War Without Mercy, Dower states that the War Department deleted references to “free-thinking” Japanese from Know Your Enemy: Japan and emphasized the point that the Japanese people are “a single-minded, obedient mass” (19 -20). . Therefore, in order to reduce sympathy for the Japanese people, the War Department purposely omitted from Know Your Enemy: Japan the description of the Japanese people controlled by their leaders. You know… in the middle of the paper… the North Korean people are described as no different from the South Korean people. Furthermore, while the JSA suggests the possibility of Korean reunification, the people remain highly hostile towards each other. Work cited in the Joint Security Area. Dir. Park Chan-wook. For. Yeong-ae Lee, Byung-hun Lee and Kang-ho Song. CJ Entertainment. 2005. DVD.Know Thy Enemy: Japan. Dir. Franco Capra. 1945. Film.Dower, John W. War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986. Print. Cumings, Bruce. The Origin of the Korean War: Liberation and the Emergence of Separate Regimes 1945-1947. New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1989. Print.Koreas to Unite for Table Tennis, Soccer Competition. Los Angeles time. February 12, 1991. Web. November 19, 2013. Chico Harlan. South Korea's youth are wary of unification. The Washington Post. October 17, 2011. Web. November 19. 2013.