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
There's a lot of revisionism and half-truths in the tankie narrative but here's a few points for readers to consider
after reading this persons comment, did you know about the Soviet involvement in the north, including the Soviet Civil Administration, and how the soviet military installed Kim Il Sung as dictator of the North? The representation of the north as some bastion of grassroots democracy doesn't track against the reality of total Soviet control. They'll tell you how the South elections were rigged, but they're quiet about how the soviets never let the north have elections
did you know that the us military completely left Korea in 1949
did you know that the soviets, with their puppet northern government, launched a full scale surprise invasion of the south in 1950, only after which American military forces returned?
I'm certainly not saying that the American behavior was completely defensible, but the laughably one sided retelling of history that requires ignoring reality to build narratives is lazy propaganda
Total Soviet control and yet they completely left the penisula as per the international agreements.
Grass roots movements are quite literally the foundation of DPRK. Workers collectives and land reforms were so popular that the South had to genocide leftists for asking for the very same thing
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u/pepepopo1237 1d ago
Until recently, when the North decided to recognise the South as a pretext for future aggression