Why North Korea and South Korea are enemy of each other ? What is the reason?
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Well , its a long conflict and you can trace the animosity back to the cold war and the end of WWII .
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Korea as a whole was initially colonized by Japan during WWII, The Japanese could be compared to what the British was for India during the the colonial period . During the war , Japan was a member of the axis (which consisted of Germany and Italy ) and as they lost the war after Hiroshima and Nagasaki , according to the United Nations they had to leave all their international colonies . However , this meant that the colonies would be left to immediately rule themselves . So the UN decided to divide the country along a parallel line . The North would be given to USSR and the south to USA which would maintain a balance of powers in the region until a referendum could be held and both sides elected their own rulers . However things didnt quite go as planned as the USSR didnt hold a proper referndum and simply installed the general of their choice ( Kim Il Sung) . The US led south Korea refused to recognize this . North Korea declared war and invaded the south . Eventually an armistice was declared( an armistice is not the same as a peace treaty which means south and north korea are still technically in a state of war) and the fighting calmed down but can still be seen to this day from time to time in different forms .
summing up ; like most major wars of the 20th century , the north Korean and south Korean issue can also in part be blamed upon US and USSR's constant effort to belittle the other . These world powers used others to further their own conquest.
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My short answer would be yes and no: They are frenemies in a love-hate relationship — a result of a complicated history of division that originates in the Cold War.
To get into the details, we need to understand how and why the Korean Peninsula was split in two.
After Japan’s surrender in WWII in 1945, the two global superpowers at that time, the U.S. and the Soviet Union, divided the Korean Peninsula along the 38th parallel (the current border, slightly different, loops around the original line). Initially, Korea was ruled by a dual trusteeship — the Soviets in the north, the U.S. in the south. But in 1948, separate governments were established in Seoul and Pyongyang, forming South and North Korea, respectively.
Two years later, the Korean War (1950-53) brought about the complete partition (and near-complete destruction) of the peninsula. The United Nations, South Korea and the U.S. maintain that North Korea opened fire, backed by the Soviets. North Korea vehemently denies this and accuses the South of attacking first.
So legally speaking, the two Koreas are enemies, still technically at war (since the war ended with an armistice, not a peace agreement, in 1953). Neither officially recognizes the other as a country (despite treating each other as sovereign states in accordance with international law).
The Korean War separated families living on both sides of the border, spawning tragic stories like that of Sung Il-gi, the alleged brother-in-law of Kim Jong-il. Sung found himself alone in the South after the war. In January 2018, around 58,000 divided families were registered in the South for possible reunion with their families in the North.
Since 1953, there have been many minor military clashes between the two sides, and almost no interaction among ordinary civilians. But since the early 1980s, there have been some significant attempts at reconciliation. In 1983 there were high-profile family reunions, broadcast in South Korea. In 1991 the two governments formed a joint team to compete at the World Table Tennis Championships, winning a gold. That same year, the two sides even signed an agreement on reconciliation and non-aggression.
Two liberal governments from 1998 to 2008 actively promoted rapprochement with the North, exemplified by the Sunshine Policy. The ensuing decade of conservative South Korean presidents maintained a firm stance against the North, including closing the Kaesong Industrial Complex, which was jointly run by the Koreas, in 2016.