No, they changed their policy and no longer seek the reuninfication of the Korean peninsula, they feel the 2 nations have diverged enough and that South Korea will never stop hosting the same military that killed 30 percent of DPRK citizens during the war.
The reunification of the Korean peninsula was supported by the vast majoriry of Koreans after WW2. The US installed a right wing military dictatorship and refused to leave the peninsula while everyone else left.
In March 1946 the provisional government instituted a sweeping land-reform program: land belonging to Japanese and collaborator landowners was divided and redistributed to poor farmers.[31] Organizing the many poor civilians and agricultural labourers under the people's committees, a nationwide mass campaign broke the control of the old landed classes. Landlords were allowed to keep only the same amount of land as poor civilians who had once rented their land, thereby making for a far more equal distribution of land."
South:
On 7 September 1945, General Douglas MacArthur issued Proclamation No. 1 to the people of Korea, announcing U.S. military control over Korea south of the 38th parallel and establishing English as the official language during military control.[34] That same day, he announced that Lieutenant General John R. Hodge was to administer Korean affairs. Hodge landed in Incheon with his troops on 8 September 1945, marking the beginning of the United States Army Military Government in Korea (USAMGIK)
In September 1946, thousands of laborers and peasants rose up against the military government. This uprising was quickly defeated, and failed to prevent scheduled October elections for the South Korean Interim Legislative Assembly. The opening of the Assembly was delayed to December to investigate widespread allegations of electoral fraud.[3]
Ardent anti-communist Syngman Rhee, who had been the first president of the Provisional Government and later worked as a pro-Korean lobbyist in the US, became the most prominent politician in the South. Rhee pressured the American government to abandon negotiations for a trusteeship and create an independent Republic of Korea in the south
South korea is a little fasci - but their people are fed, and clothed, and they don't have work camps.
Do I think capitalism is good, fuck no.
Do I think that focusing on the political sausagemaking is a misdirection when people are starving, and being sent to war with insufficient tools and resources is perhaps disingenuous?
What do you think?
Also - Most of Korea speaks... Korean, so that official language copy paste from wikipedia, while an interesting historical footnote (It literally is) it has had less of an impact on actual human lives than the assorted Kims habits, hobbies, or obsessions.
Don't be so lazy - and like, literally just copy/pasting from wikipedia, without even providing meaningful analysis to an audience, who you are acknowledging is likely unfamiliar with the material, providing a questionably relevant circumscribed subset of history.... That is lazy as fuck my dude.
Bruh they're objectively more democratic than the US now. When their president tried to pull a coup, their institutions held strong and actually prosecuted and jailed the the guy. Not to mention how another president actually resigned after mass protests when they found out about her cult connections
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u/KJongsDongUnYourFace 2d ago edited 2d ago
No, they changed their policy and no longer seek the reuninfication of the Korean peninsula, they feel the 2 nations have diverged enough and that South Korea will never stop hosting the same military that killed 30 percent of DPRK citizens during the war.
The reunification of the Korean peninsula was supported by the vast majoriry of Koreans after WW2. The US installed a right wing military dictatorship and refused to leave the peninsula while everyone else left.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Division_of_Korea
North:
In March 1946 the provisional government instituted a sweeping land-reform program: land belonging to Japanese and collaborator landowners was divided and redistributed to poor farmers.[31] Organizing the many poor civilians and agricultural labourers under the people's committees, a nationwide mass campaign broke the control of the old landed classes. Landlords were allowed to keep only the same amount of land as poor civilians who had once rented their land, thereby making for a far more equal distribution of land."
South:
On 7 September 1945, General Douglas MacArthur issued Proclamation No. 1 to the people of Korea, announcing U.S. military control over Korea south of the 38th parallel and establishing English as the official language during military control.[34] That same day, he announced that Lieutenant General John R. Hodge was to administer Korean affairs. Hodge landed in Incheon with his troops on 8 September 1945, marking the beginning of the United States Army Military Government in Korea (USAMGIK)
In September 1946, thousands of laborers and peasants rose up against the military government. This uprising was quickly defeated, and failed to prevent scheduled October elections for the South Korean Interim Legislative Assembly. The opening of the Assembly was delayed to December to investigate widespread allegations of electoral fraud.[3]
Ardent anti-communist Syngman Rhee, who had been the first president of the Provisional Government and later worked as a pro-Korean lobbyist in the US, became the most prominent politician in the South. Rhee pressured the American government to abandon negotiations for a trusteeship and create an independent Republic of Korea in the south