About The Division of North and South Korea

What is the Key essential nature or point of disequilibrium causing the division of North and South Korea
- Colonized by Japan (1909-1945)
- Japan lost the World War II and Korea became independent
- China, Russia, U.S.A, U.N supported trusteeship on Korea.
- China and Russia started to rule North Korea with communism, while U.S.A and U.N started to rule South Korea with democracy.
- Lots of fighters for independent opposed to trusteeship but Korea didn’t have a chance to be reunified.
what first step(s), if any, might be taken to accomplish a final resolution of meaningful change and mutual benefit?
- North and South Korea should understand each others’ cultures.
- Need to be emic, so that discord doesn’t occur between North and South
- Hold some meetings like North-South Korean summit
- Have economic cooperation for each others’ development

Korea has been divided in North and South for more than 50 years. There are lots of people who hoped to see the reunify of Korea, but many of them passed away without seeing the reunify of Korea. There were only two countries which were divided, Germany and Korea. However, Germany was reunified in 1990. They also have lots of difficulties and troubles between West and East just like the present Korea. However, both East and West put a lot of efforts to reunify. They tried to understand each others’ differences, and solve the problems one by one in calm and orderly.

To sum the history of division of Korea, it all started from the colonization of Japan(1909-1945). At this time, all citizens in Korea have one hope, independent of Korea. However, Japan lost the World War II because of two nuclear bombs which dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So Korea became independent in 1945, but the world powers claim that Korea needs trusteeship to restore and develop Korean society after the war. Lots of fighters for independent opposed to trusteeship, but the voices of them were not listened. China and Russia started to rule North Korea with communism, while U.S.A, and U.N started to rule South Korea with democracy. As a result, North and South got different ideas, and the discord between them became bigger.

It seems incorrigible to reunify Korea again, but I actually think the most essential problem between North and South is “misunderstanding and discord between them”. To solve this problem, North and South should understand each others’ cultures by hold lots of events and campaigns to be closer to each other. We also need to be emic, so that discord doesn’t occur between North and South. If we got the ability to be emic on other’s position, it would be much easier to understand the other. Holding some talks and carrying out policy like North-South Korean Summit and the Sunshine Policy frequently. At last, most of the people know that North Korea is poor on economic part, but they actually contain lots of variable resources that South doesn’t have. So we also need to have economic cooperation for interaction

North and South Korean flags