What is the name of both a u. S. State and a sovereign nation?

Which of the following best describes us involvement in the korean peninsula today?

In italy, the distance between milan in the north and palermo,sicily, in the south is about 550 miles. in the united states, the distance betweenboston, massachusetts, and savannah, georgia, is about 900 miles. do you think the american revolutionaries of 1776 in the 13 colonies faced some of the same challenges as the patriots who struggled for italian unity in the 1860s?  

How have a past president and our current president abused the powers granted to the president of the united states by the constitution and the people ?