Aftermath of the Korean War - Korean Reunification, Korean DMZ Conflict, Korean Demilitarized Zone, Joint Security Area, Division of Korea (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Korean reunification, Korean DMZ Conflict, Korean Demilitarized Zone, Joint Security Area, Division of Korea, Korean maritime border incidents, Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission, Holt International Children's Services, UNCMAC, UNCOK, UNCURK. Excerpt: Korean reunification (Korean:, also called (in the South, literally South-North Reunification) and (in the North, literally North-South Reunification)) refers to the hypothetical future reunification of North Korea and South Korea under a single government. The process towards this was started by the June 15th North-South Joint Declaration in August 2000, where the two countries agreed to work towards a peaceful reunification in the future. However, there are a number of difficulties in this process due to the large political and economic differences between the two countries and other state actors such as the People's Republic of China, Russia, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Short-term problems, such as potentially large numbers of refugees migrating from North Korea and initial economic and political instability, and long-term problems, such as cultural differences and possible discrimination, would need to be resolved. Japan annexed Korea in 1910 and ruled over it until 1945. After Japan's defeat in World War II, the United Nations developed plans for trusteeship administration of Korea. The division of the peninsula into military occupation zones at the 38th parallel - a northern zone administered by the Soviet Union and a southern zone administered by the United States - was agreed by the two superpowers in 1945. This was not originally intended to result in a long-lasting partition, but Cold War politics resulted in the establishment of two separate governments in the two zones in 1948 and rising tensions prevented cooperatio...