1904 After Japan won the Russo-Japanese War, it had no scruples. 1905, it forced North Korea to sign the Treaty for the Protection of Japan and publicly reduced the country to its protectorate. 19 10, Japan further imposed the Japan-Korea Merger Treaty on North Korea and directly annexed it.
1August, 945 15, Korea was liberated, and Soviet and American troops were stationed in the north and south parts of the Korean peninsula bounded by the 38th parallel. After American and Soviet troops occupied both sides of the 38th parallel, they ruled the occupied area according to their own model, and Korea was in a state of division from then on.
Both the DPRK and the ROK consider themselves as the sole legitimate representatives of the whole Korean Peninsula, have sovereignty over the whole Korean Peninsula, and neither of them recognizes the division of the Korean Peninsula. The Korean Constitution clearly stipulates that "the Korean Peninsula and its affiliated islands are the territory of the Republic of Korea, and the Republic of Korea is the legitimate representative of the whole Korean nation", and Pyongyang has the same provision.
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On May 1948 and 10, South Korea (later South Korea) held a separate election under the strict vigilance and supervision of the US military and police. According to the statistics after the polling station closed on 10 night, about 85% of the 8 million voters in South Korea participated in the election. As a result of the election, Li Chengwan became the first president of the Republic of Korea by a narrow margin.
1948 In August and September, the government of the Republic of Korea and the government of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea were successively established in the north and south of Korea. In June+10, 5438, the Soviet Union handed over the administrative power north of the 38th parallel to the Korean people. By June+February, 65438, all Soviet troops had withdrawn. Half a year later, the US military also announced its withdrawal from South Korea, but left behind civilian officials and a "military advisory group."
The territory and ethnic groups on the Korean peninsula were divided, and the communication between transportation, telecommunications and personnel and materials on both sides of the 38th parallel was cut off. At that time, the total population of the Korean peninsula was 30 million, the population south of the 38th parallel was about 2 1 10,000, and the population north of the 38th parallel was 9 million. The areas occupied by the North and the South account for 56% and 44% of the total area of the Korean Peninsula respectively. 1in June, 950, a military conflict broke out between the north and the south near the 38th parallel, and the Korean War broke out for three years.
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