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Korea - Division, Geography, History: The Cairo Declaration, issued on December 1, 1943, by the United States, Great Britain, and China, pledged independence for Korea “in due course.” This vague phrase aroused the leaders of the Korean provisional government in Chongqing to request interpretation from the United States. Their request, however, received no answer. At the Yalta Conference ...
Feb 9, 2018 · For centuries before the division, the peninsula was a single, unified Korea, ruled by generations of dynastic kingdoms. Occupied by Japan after the Russo-Japanese War in 1905 and formally...
- Sarah Pruitt
May 3, 2024 · Understanding the historical context and the major events that led to and resulted from the division requires an exploration of early 20th-century geopolitical dynamics, the impact of World War II, and the Cold War tensions.
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The History of Korea stretches from Lower Paleolithic times to the present. The earliest known Korean pottery dates to around 8000 B.C.E., and the Neolithic period began before 6000 B.C.E., followed by that Bronze Age around 2500 B.C.E.
Main articles: History of North Korea and History of South Korea. Beginning with Syngman Rhee in 1948, a series of autocratic governments took power in South Korea with American support and influence. With the coup of Park Chung Hee in 1961, a new economic policy began.
At its independence in 1948, South Korea was an impoverished, predominately agricultural state, and most of the industry and electrical power was in North Korea. It faced a devastating war from 1950 to 1953, and an unpromising and slow recovery in the years that followed.
Japanese Colonial Rule and U.S.-Soviet Occupation. (1910~1948) In 1905, in the wake of the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese government unilaterally declared that Korea would henceforth be a Japanese protectorate. In August 1910, this status was altered, and Korea became a formal colony of the Japanese empire.
