why north Korea and south Korea are enemies of each other. for what they fighting ??

Answer 1

Dear r4romantic,

It all goes back to quite a while ago. All of Korea used to one country. Then Japan invaded it in 1910, and ruled very harshly indeed. Koreans were forced to take on Japanese names and the Korean language was banned in public. During World War II many Koreans were forcibly drafted into the Japanese army, and Korean women were abducted to serve as sex slaves for the Japanese troops.

After the Japanese defeat in 1945, the US liberated the south of the country and the Soviet Union liberated the north. Democratic elections for the entire country were planned for 1948, but they never happened - the North complained that the elections suggested by the South were rigged and unjust. The North set about appointing its own leader and government, and after a while the South did the same.

Neither government was democratic: in the North, Kim Il-sung was installed as leader with the help of the Soviet Union and in the South, Syngman Rhee was put into power by the US. Both were harsh dictators, the only difference being that the North followed Communist command-economy principles and the South stuck to a capitalist, free-market system. North and South resented each other, and both complained that the other was an illegal government.

In June 1950 North Korea invaded the south. After an initial series of stunning successes, North Korea was then repelled by a United Nations coalition force led by the United States. It seemed that the US could actually topple Kim Il-sung's regime in the North, but then China intervened and the Chinese army managed to push back the US forces all the way to the middle of the peninsula. This was known as the Korean War. It was incredibly brutal and many millions of people died from both sides.

In 1953, a ceasefire was finally signed. It was agreed that each side would keep the territory it had conquered, which ironically was almost exactly the same as before the war. A heavily defended border was set up on the location of the front line to divide the two countries. But it is important to note that the agreement signed between the two was only a ceasefire, NOT a peace treaty. North and South Korea remain officially at war to this day and neither recognises the other's government.

In following years, though no other war occurred, both sides stayed bitterly hostile to each other, spying on each other and trying to undermine each other's government. The North in particular dug several infiltration tunnels under the ground to invade the South, and planned several assassination attempts against South Korean politicians.

South Korea adopted a democratic government in 1988 but North Korea remained a Communist dictatorship. In fact, with the demise of the Soviet Union, North Korea closed itself even more to the outside world. North Koreans are not allowed to leave their country and every aspect of their lives is controlled by their harsh dictatorship. Many have died of hunger after several famines struck the country as a result of economic mismanagement. An increasing number of North Koreans, at great risk to their own lives, have escaped secretly to China.

Today things have eased somewhat. As a result of the permanent distrust between the two countries, both North and South do remain heavily militarised. The North maintains a large regular army, and in the South all males are required to do military service for 3 years. In addition, there are 37,000 US troops still stationed in South Korea for the purpose of deterring any other attacks from the North. However, the South has adopted a more peaceful policy towards the North, and its plan for reunification is to take slow steps towards voluntary cooperation between the two.

The problem is that the North remains wildly unpredictable. No foreigners are allowed there except a handful of diplomats and personnel from international aid agencies, none of whom are allowed to come in contact with any of the local population. Therefore nobody knows who is really in charge (officially it is Kim Jong-il, but many believe that he is just fronting for an anonymous military junta), or how North Korea really determines its policy towards the outside world. It is at times aggressive and petulant (threatening to reignite a nuclear energy programme, launching missiles in the Sea of Japan, etc), or calm and conciliatory, but without ever opening its borders or extending any longlasting gestures of goodwill to the South. Therefore no one really knows when or how Korea will reunify.

Hope this helped,

Answer 2

North korea is a rogue state and south korea is a strong economy.Communists of north tries to impose communism on south, that is the main problem.

Answer 3

it was once one usa, divided on the tip of world conflict 2 by making use of soviets from the north, individuals from the south, the two considered one of whom put in the present "puppet" governments. soviet north korea invaded the south, american troops fought the north koreans out of south korea in a "proxy conflict" between the soviet and ameican chilly conflict ideologies. The Demilitarised zone grew to become into customary on the close of the conflict. American commerce and technologies effect on the south has considered large financial boost in south korea, making it between the main wealthy international locations interior the international. The north has maitained a dictatorship and militarized form government, boasting between the biggest armies interior the international. The civilians interior the north, whether, are somewhat unfavorable, are exceedingly censored (information superhighway get right of entry to unknown to the final public) and concern to nazi-germany form rule with reference to propaganda ect. North korea have recently stepped forward nuclear weapons, which they say they're going to use if all of us ever assaults north korea, whether their good value concern is on the fringe of fall down (the government would fall down with it) so the government are attempting to initiate a conflict wherein case they might take over south korea and share its financial fulfillment. The south korean government, whether, will on no account undergo north korean rule, and the north koreans likewise, so there is limited probability of the rustic being reunified peacefully. in answer on your question, no, they have not constantly been enemies, by way of fact formerly the 2nd international conflict, they have been a united usa.

Answer 4

Capitalism vs Communism.

Answer 5

The communists in the North want to govern/take over the people in the South, and they don't want the communist government and way of life forced upon them. Would you?

Answer 6

North Koreans will need a few atom bombs on their head to realise that communism is a totally failed principle and even china likes to be called as democratic nation.

Answer 7

its just like somepeople of india n pakistan

Answer 8

likes oppose each other

Answer 9

one is communist and wants the other one to be too. the other one doesn't want to.

Answer 10

LAND