With the help of the other countries, South Korea took back their land, and even much of North Korea, up to the Yalu River, which forms the border between North Korea and China. North Korea had taken over much of South Korea by force. General Douglas MacArthur led the soldiers. If South Korea became Communist, then maybe other countries would too. These countries did not like Communism (to learn more, see the article about the Cold War). The United Nations sent soldiers to Korea. The North Korean leaders wanted South Korea to be communist, like North Korea and the Soviet Union were. North Korea wanted to bring together North and South Korea to form a single Korean country, and Korean families that had been split by the division of North and South to be together again. In 1950, North Korea sent soldiers to South Korea. Each created governments supporting their own ideologies, Marxist–Leninist Single Party State (North) and Democratic Capitalist State (South). Japan's weak status allowed the Soviets to enter Korea fairly, freely and occupy the northern half whilst the United States took the southern half.
In 1945, the USSR declared war on Japan and the United States bombed it (Nagasaki and Hiroshima) severely weakening its empire and forcing Japan to surrender. Japan then had control.īetween 1910 and the end of World War II in 1945, Korea was considered a part of Japan due to Japan's colonization of Korea. Since Japan and Russia were both very close to Korea, Japan took Korea for themselves as part of Japan. The country was peaceful and was not communist.
It had a king and people were mostly farmers. Historians believe that the Korean people have lived in the area for thousands of years. When he died in 2011, his youngest son Kim Jong-un took his place and continues to lead the country today. Kim Jong-il enacted a new policy of " Songun", or "military-first", which turned the country into a military state. North Korea was the only communist country in history where leadership was directly given to the former leader's son after his death. After Kim Il-sung died during the disasters of the 1990s, his son Kim Jong-il took his place and was promoted by the government as the leader who led North Korea out of the disasters. Later on, the country's leaders began to remove "communism" from North Korean laws and philosophy, although Juche can be described as a variant of communism. The country's leader Kim Il-sung said that the government was following his own ideology of " Juche", which means "self-reliance". North Korea is described as a totalitarian Stalinist dictatorship by western media, while North Korea describes itself as a democratic worker's state.
Worldwide economic sanctions and embargoes are thought to have significantly impacted the quality of life in North Korea. Afterwards, things stabilized but continued to lag behind the South. As South Korea got richer, North Korea got poorer and life became worse there. Throughout the 1990s, North Korea suffered from famines and natural disasters. This left North Korea stranded and isolated. Soon afterwards, the North's main trading partners the Soviet Union, collapsed. North Korea had ties with China and Russia but never was formally allied with either and became more isolated over time. At first, there was a war between the north and south which is called the Korean War, but while the fighting stopped in 1953, the war never officially ended. The Republic of Korea is the southern half of the Korean Peninsula, and was occupied by the United States, and the U.S. The country was founded in 1948 after it had been freed from Japanese occupation, and a socialist state backed by the Soviet Union was established. The capital city of North Korea is Pyŏngyang, which is also the largest city. North Korea is next to China, Russia, and South Korea. North Korea (officially called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ( DPRK)), is a country in the northern part of the Korean peninsula. Kim Yong-nam is the " head of state for foreign affairs". In 2011 Kim Jong-Un was named as the new "Supreme Leader of the party, state and army" ^ A 2009 constitutional amendment implicitly referred to Kim Jong-il as the "Supreme Leader", as well as the " Chairman of the National Defence Commission". Kim Jong-Il died 2011, named "Eternal General Secretary" in 2012. Kim Il-sung died 1994, named "Eternal President" in 1998.
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