Korean peninsula was under the control of Imperial Japan during ww2 after which it was divided into south and north.
North side was controlled by Soviets while south was under US control for ~5 years.
After these 2 powers of the world left the peninsula, two sides had completely different views. Not people, but their governments*.
North Korea was fed with communism, while South adopted a capitalist and democratic ideology, aligned with Western values.
Suddenly, people with same nationality, language, culture were against each other.
In the beginning when North Korea invaded South Korea and captured cities, south korean people were happy saying that that was “the long waited unification with our brothers”
Governments were however….
This is honestly sad that one nation was divided into two and became enemies.
What I mean is that, two Koreas may never unite again because new generations see each other as enemies and never know that they were once brothers, united.
We also don’t notice that we were Turkistan….
Difference is that we are realizing the truth gradually.
North side was controlled by Soviets while south was under US control for ~5 years.
After these 2 powers of the world left the peninsula, two sides had completely different views. Not people, but their governments*.
North Korea was fed with communism, while South adopted a capitalist and democratic ideology, aligned with Western values.
Suddenly, people with same nationality, language, culture were against each other.
In the beginning when North Korea invaded South Korea and captured cities, south korean people were happy saying that that was “the long waited unification with our brothers”
Governments were however….
This is honestly sad that one nation was divided into two and became enemies.
What I mean is that, two Koreas may never unite again because new generations see each other as enemies and never know that they were once brothers, united.
We also don’t notice that we were Turkistan….
Difference is that we are realizing the truth gradually.