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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO KOREAS This resear

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO KOREAS

This research paper discusses and analyzes the relationship between and prospects for reunification of North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea or DPRK) and South Korea (Republic of Korea or ROK) since the end of the Second World War. The Korean peninsula was divided along the 38th parallel in August 1945 and has remained so ever since. Neither Korea has officially recognized the existence of the other. Until the end of the Cold War in 1989, the rivalry and tensions between the communist North and the non-communist South and their respective great power supporters perpetuated and intensified that division, culminating in the Korean War (1950-1953), which ended in a military stalemate. In the 1960s the principal proponent of reunification was DPRK which promoted it unsuccessfully as a means of politically controlling the peninsula. Detente between the United States and its Cold War adversaries, the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China (China), and the Sino-Soviet split led to tentative but unproductive North-South reunification talks in the early 1970s. By the 1980s the South's economy began outstripping that of the North. DPRK became progressively isolated diplomatically. Intermittent reunification talks, however, failed because of continued inter-Korean conflicts and political turmoil in the South. After the triumph of democracy in the South in 1987 and its continued economic progress, the South took the initiative in expanding talks and contacts with the North which were encouraged by most of the great powers after the end of the Cold War. Despite more intensive negotiations, the two Koreas remained divided throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. The prospects for reunification in the near future are dim. The principal barrier to reunification is the impasse between North Korea and the United States/South Korea over the North's fledgling nuclear weapons program concerning wh...

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