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- South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol unveiled a new unification doctrine, the “Aug. 15 Unification Doctrine,” during his speech marking the 79th anniversary of Korea’s liberation on Aug. 15. He pledged to “make 2024 the founding year for advancing towards a unified Republic of Korea based on freedom, peace, and prosperity.”
www.dailynk.com/english/aug-15-doctine-south-korea-new-unification-strategy/The “Aug. 15 doctrine”: South Korea’s new unification strategy
In 1948, with the end of the U.S. military government, South Korea declared its independence from Japan as the Republic of Korea. In 1952, when Japan approved the independence of the Korean region under the San Francisco Peace Treaty, it became a completely independent
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For centuries before the division, the peninsula was a single, unified Korea, ruled by generations of dynastic kingdoms. Occupied by Japan after the Russo-Japanese War in 1905 and formally annexed five years later, Korea chafed under Japanese colonial rule for 35 years—until the end of World War II, when its division into two nations began. “The ca...
In August 1945, the two allies “in name only” (as Robinson puts it) divided control over the Korean Peninsula. Over the next three years (1945-48), the Soviet Army and its proxies set up a communist regime in the area north of latitude 38˚ N, or the 38th parallel. South of that line, a military government was formed, supported directly by the Unite...
The Korean War (1950-53), which killed at least 2.5 million people, did little to resolve the question of which regime represented the “true” Korea. It did, however, firmly establish the United States as the permanent bête noire of North Korea, as the U.S. military bombed villages, towns and cities across the northern half of the peninsula. “They l...
With continuing strong ties to the West (and an ongoing U.S. military presence), South Korea developed a robust economy, and in recent decades has made steps toward becoming a fully democratic nation. Meanwhile, North Korea remained an isolated “hermit kingdom”—particularly after the collapse of the Soviet bloc in the early 1990s—and economically u...
Despite efforts at diplomacy under South Korea’s current president, Moon Jae-in, the stark differences between the two Koreas were on full display in the run-up to the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Even as South Koreans began welcoming athletes from around the world to the Winter Games, Kim Jong Un’s regime in the North put on a military parade in Pyo...
- Sarah Pruitt
May 13, 2020 · According to the survey, the vast majority of South Koreans believe that the Republic of Korea (ROK) should continue to have an alliance with the United States even after unification. Meanwhile, a strong majority of them also feel that a unified Korea should have an alliance with China.
Mar 1, 2019 · Here are three short stories leading up to and immediately following the 1919 March First Movement that highlight the role of the Korean diaspora. The Muo Declaration of Independence. On February 1, 1919, 39 exiled independence activists met in Jilin province in Northeast China and proclaimed Korea’s independence.
Mar 1, 2019 · The independence movement split into two opposing ideological camps, a division that eventually became institutionalized into the separate states that we know today as North and South Korea.
- Kyung Moon Hwang
At its independence in 1948, South Korea was an impoverished, predominately agricultural state, and most of the industry and electrical power was in North Korea. It faced a devastating war from 1950 to 1953, and an unpromising and slow recovery in the years that followed.
May 1, 2018 · 1950 - South declares independence, sparking North Korean invasion. 1953 - Armistice ends Korean War, which has cost two million lives. 1950s - South sustained by crucial US military, economic...
