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Korean conflict
	Part of the Cold War (until 1991)
	; The Korean DMZ, viewed from the north
Date	2 September 1945[citation needed] – ongoing ; (78 years, 10 months and 13 days)
Location	Korean Peninsula38°19′N 127°14′E / 38.317°N 127.233°E
Status	Korean War took place from 1950 to 1953; Korean Armistice Agreement signed in 1953; Korean DMZ Conflict from 1966 to 1969; Panmunjom Declaration signed in 2018; Joint Statement of President Trump and Chairman Kim Jong-Un signed in 2018;
Territorial; changes	Korea was divided at the 38th parallel in 1945 with the separation of the sovereign states of North Korea and South Korea in 1948; Korean Demilitarized Zone established in 1953;
Belligerents
South Korea; United States Supported by: Australia ; Japan ; United Kingdom ;	North Korea Supported by: Syria ; Iran ; Cuba ; Russia ; China ; Soviet Union; (until 1988) ;
Commanders and leaders
Yoon Suk-yeol; (2022–); Joe Biden; (2021–) Former Moon Jae-in; (2017–2022) ; Park Geun-hye; (2013–2017) ; Lee Myung-bak; (2008–2013) ; Roh Moo-hyun; (2003–2008) ; Kim Dae-jung; (1998–2003) ; Kim Young-sam; (1993–1998) ; Roh Tae-woo; (1988–1993) ; Chun Doo-hwan; (1980–1988) ; Choi Kyu-hah; (1979–1980) ; Park Chung-hee X; (1961–1979) ; Yun Bo-seon; (1960–1961) ; Syngman Rhee; (1948–1960) ; Donald Trump; (2017–2021) ; Barack Obama; (2009–2017) ; George W. Bush; (2001–2009) ; Bill Clinton; (1993–2001) ; George H. W. Bush; (1989–1993) ; Ronald Reagan; (1981–1989) ; Jimmy Carter; (1977–1981) ; Gerald Ford; (1974–1977) ; Richard Nixon; (1969–1974) ; Lyndon B. Johnson; (1963–1969) ; John F. Kennedy X; (1961–1963) ; Dwight D. Eisenhower; (1953–1961) ; Harry S. Truman; (1945–1953) ;	Kim Jong-un; (2011–) Former Kim Jong-il #; (1994–2011) ; Kim Il-sung #; (1948–1994) ;
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The Korean conflict is an ongoing conflict based on the division of Korea between North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) and South Korea (Republic of Korea), both of which claim to be the sole legitimate government of all of Korea. During the Cold War, North Korea was backed by the Soviet Union, China, and other allies, while South Korea was backed by the United States and its Western allies.

The division of Korea by the United States and the Soviet Union occurred in 1945. Both superpowers created a government in their own image. Tensions erupted into the Korean War, which lasted from 1950 to 1953. When the war ended, both countries were devastated but the division remained. North and South Korea continued a military standoff, with periodic clashes. The conflict survived the end of the Cold War and continues to this day.

The US maintains a military presence in the South to assist South Korea in accordance with the ROK–US Mutual Defense Treaty. In 1997, US President Bill Clinton described the division of Korea as the "Cold War's last divide".^[1] In 2002, US President George W. Bush described North Korea as a member of an "axis of evil".^[2]^[3] Facing increasing isolation, North Korea developed missile and nuclear capabilities.

Following heightened tension throughout 2017, 2018 saw North and South Korea, and the US, holding a series of summits which promised peace and nuclear disarmament. This led to the Panmunjom Declaration on 27 April 2018, when the North and the South agreed to work together to denuclearize the peninsula, improve inter-Korean relations, end the conflict and move towards the peaceful reunification.

Background

Korea was annexed by the Empire of Japan on 22 August 1910 and ruled by it until 2 September 1945. In the following decades during the Japanese occupation of Korea, the nationalist and radical groups emerged, mostly in exile, to struggle for independence. Divergent in their outlooks and approaches, these groups failed to unite into a single national movement.^[4]^[5] Based in China, the Korean Provisional Government failed to obtain widespread recognition.^[6] The many leaders advocating for Korean independence included the conservative and US-educated Syngman Rhee, who lobbied the US government, and the Communist Kim Il-sung, who fought a guerrilla war against the Japanese from neighboring Manchuria to the north of Korea.^[7]

Following the end of the occupation, many high-ranking Koreans were accused of collaborating with Japanese imperialism.^[8] An intense and bloody struggle between various figures and political groups aspiring to lead Korea ensued.^[9]

Division of Korea

On 9 August 1945, as agreed by the Allies at the Yalta Conference, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan and advanced into Korea. The US government requested that the Soviet advance stop at the 38th parallel. The US forces were to occupy the area south of the 38th parallel, including the capital, Seoul. This division of Korea into two zones of occupation was incorporated into General Order No. 1 which was given to Japanese forces after the surrender of Japan on 15 August. On 24 August, the Red Army entered Pyongyang and established a military government over Korea north of the parallel. American forces landed in the south on 8 September and established the US Army Military Government in Korea.^[10]

The Allies had originally envisaged a joint trusteeship which would steer Korea towards independence, but most Korean nationalists wanted independence immediately.^[11] Meanwhile, the wartime co-operation between the Soviet Union and the US deteriorated as the Cold War took hold. Both occupying powers began promoting into positions of authority Koreans aligned with their side of politics and marginalizing their opponents. Many of these emerging political leaders were returning exiles with little popular support.^[12]^[13] In North Korea, the Soviet Union supported Korean communists. Kim Il-sung, who from 1941 had served in the Soviet Army, became the major political figure.^[14] Society was centralized and collectivized, following the Soviet model.^[15] Politics in the South were more tumultuous, but the strongly anti-communist Syngman Rhee, who had been educated in the US, was positioned as the most prominent politician.^[16]

In South Korea, a general election was held on 10 May 1948. The Republic of Korea (or ROK) was established with Syngman Rhee as president, and formally replaced the US military occupation on 15 August. In North Korea, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (or DPRK) was declared on 9 September, with Kim Il-sung, as prime minister. Soviet occupation forces left the DPRK on 10 December 1948. US forces left the ROK the following year, though the US Korean Military Advisory Group remained to train the Republic of Korea Army.^[17] The new regimes even adopted different names for Korea: the North choosing Choson, and the South Hanguk.^[18]

Both opposing governments considered themselves to be the government of the whole of Korean Peninsula (as they do to this day), and both saw the division as temporary.^[19]^[20] Kim Il-sung lobbied Stalin and Mao for support in a war of reunification, while Syngman Rhee repeatedly expressed his desire to conquer the North.^[21]^[22] In 1948, North Korea, which had almost all of the generators, turned off the electricity supply to the South.^[23] In the lead-up to the outbreak of civil war, there were frequent clashes along the 38th parallel, especially at Kaesong and Ongjin, initiated by both sides.^[24]^[25]

Throughout this period there were uprisings in the South, such as the Jeju Uprising and the Yeosu–Suncheon Rebellion, that were brutally suppressed. In all, over one hundred thousand lives were lost in fighting across Korea before the Korean War began.^[26]

Korean War (1950–1953)

By 1950, North Korea had clear military superiority over the South. The Soviet occupiers had armed it with surplus weaponry and provided training. Many troops returning to North Korea were battle-hardened from their participation in the Chinese Civil War, which had just ended.^[27]^[28] Kim Il-sung expected a quick victory, predicting that there would be pro-communist uprisings in the South and that the US would not intervene.^[29] Rather than perceiving the conflict as a civil war, however, the West saw it in Cold War terms as communist aggression, related to recent events in China and Eastern Europe.^[30]

North Korea invaded the South on 25 June 1950, and swiftly overran most of the country. In September 1950 United Nations force, led by the US, intervened to defend the South, and following the Incheon Landing and breakout from the Pusan Perimeter, rapidly advanced into North Korea. As the UN force neared the border with China, Chinese forces intervened on behalf of North Korea, shifting the balance of the war again. Fighting ended on 27 July 1953, with an armistice that approximately restored the original boundaries between North and South Korea.^[22]

Korea was devastated. Around three million civilians and soldiers had been killed. Seoul was in ruins, having changed hands four times. Several million North Korean refugees fled to the South.^[31] Almost every substantial building in North Korea had been destroyed.^[32]^[33] As a result, North Koreans developed a deep-seated antagonism towards the US.^[31]

Armistice

Negotiations for an armistice began on 10 July 1951, as the war continued. The main issues were the establishment of a new demarcation line and the exchange of prisoners. After Stalin died, the Soviet Union brokered concessions which led to an agreement on 27 July 1953.^[34]

President Syngman Rhee opposed the armistice because it left Korea divided. As negotiations drew to a close, he attempted to sabotage the arrangements for the release of prisoners, and led mass rallies against the armistice.^[35] He refused to sign the agreement, but reluctantly agreed to abide by it.^[36]

The armistice inaugurated an official ceasefire but did not lead to a peace treaty for two Koreas.^[37] It established the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), a buffer zone between the two sides, that intersected the 38th parallel but did not follow it.^[36] Despite its name, the border was, and continues to be, one of the most militarized in the world.^[31]

North Korea announced that it would no longer abide by the armistice at least six times, in the years 1994, 1996, 2003, 2006, 2009, and 2013.^[38]^[39]

Cold War era

After the war, the Chinese forces left, but US forces remained in the South. Sporadic conflict continued. The North's occupation of the South left behind a guerrilla movement that persisted in the Cholla provinces.^[31] On 1 October 1953, the United States and South Korea signed a defense treaty.^[40] In 1958, the United States stationed nuclear weapons in South Korea.^[41] In 1961, North Korea signed mutual defense treaties with the USSR and China.^[42] In the Sino-North Korean Mutual Aid and Cooperation Friendship Treaty China pledged to immediately render military and other assistance by all means to North Korea against any outside attack.^[43] During this period, North Korea was described by former CIA director Robert Gates to be the "toughest intelligence target in the world".^[44] Alongside the military confrontation, there was a propaganda war, including balloon propaganda campaigns.^[45]

The opposing regimes aligned themselves with opposing sides in the Cold War. Both sides received recognition as the legitimate government of Korea from the opposing blocs.^[46]^[47] South Korea became a strongly anti-Communist military dictatorship.^[48] North Korea presented itself as a champion of orthodox Communism, distinct from the Soviet Union and China. The regime developed the doctrine of Juche or self-reliance, which included extreme military mobilization.^[49] In response to the threat of nuclear war, it constructed extensive facilities underground and in the mountains.^[50]^[23] The Pyongyang Metro opened in the 1970s, with the capacity to double as bomb shelter.^[51] Until the early 1970s, North Korea was economically the equal of the South.^[52]

South Korea was heavily involved in the Vietnam War.^[53] Hundreds of North Korean fighter pilots went to Vietnam, shooting down 26 US aircraft. Teams of North Korean psychological warfare specialists targeted South Korean troops, and Vietnamese guerrillas were trained in the North.^[54]

Tensions between North and South escalated in the late 1960s with a series of low-level armed clashes known as the Korean DMZ Conflict. In 1966, Kim declared "liberation of the south" to be a "national duty".^[55] In 1968, North Korean commandos launched the Blue House raid, an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the South Korean President Park Chung-hee. Shortly after, the American spy ship USS Pueblo was captured by the North Korean navy.^[56] The Americans saw the crisis in terms of the global confrontation with Communism, but, rather than orchestrating the incident, the Soviet government was concerned by it.^[57] The crisis was initiated by Kim, inspired by Communist successes in the Vietnam War.^[58]

In 1967, Korean-born composer Isang Yun was kidnapped in West Germany by South Korean agents and imprisoned in South Korea on the charge of spying for the North. He was released after an international outcry.^[59]

In 1969, North Korea shot down a US EC-121 spy plane over the Sea of Japan, killing all 31 crew on board, which constituted the largest single loss of US aircrew during the Cold War.^[60] In 1969, Korean Air Lines YS-11 was hijacked and flown to North Korea. Similarly, in 1970, the hijackers of Japan Airlines Flight 351 were given asylum in North Korea.^[61] In response to the Blue House raid, the South Korean government set up a special unit to assassinate Kim Il-sung, but the mission was aborted in 1972.^[62]

In 1974 a North Korean sympathizer attempted to assassinate President Park and killed his wife, Yuk Young-soo.^[63] In 1976, the Panmunjeom Axe incident led to the death of two US Army officers in the DMZ and threatened to trigger a wider war.^[64]^[65] In the 1970s, North Korea kidnapped a number of Japanese citizens.^[61]

In 1976, in now-declassified minutes, US Deputy Secretary of Defense William Clements told Henry Kissinger that there had been 200 raids or incursions into North Korea from the South, though not by the US military.^[66] According to South Korean politicians who have campaigned for compensation for the survivors, more than 7,700 secret agents infiltrated North Korea from 1953 to 1972, of which about 5,300 are believed not to have returned.^[67] Details of only a few of these incursions have become public, including raids by South Korean forces in 1967 that had sabotaged about 50 North Korean facilities.^[68] Other missions included targeting advisers from China and the Soviet Union in order to undermine relations between North Korea and its allies.^[69]

The East German leader, Erich Honecker, who visited in 1977, was one of Kim Il-sung's closest foreign friends.^[70] In 1986, East Germany and North Korea signed an agreement on military co-operation.^[71] Kim was also close to maverick Communist leaders, Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia, and Nicolae Ceaușescu of Romania.^[72] Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi met with Kim Il Sung and was a close ally of the DPRK.^[73]^[74] North Korea began to play a part in the global radical movement, forging ties with such diverse groups as the Black Panther Party of the US,^[75] the Workers Party of Ireland,^[76] and the African National Congress.^[77] As it increasingly emphasized its independence, North Korea began to promote the doctrine of Juche ("self-reliance") as an alternative to orthodox Marxism-Leninism and as a model for developing countries to follow.^[78]

When North-South dialogue started in 1972, North Korea began to receive diplomatic recognition from countries outside the Communist bloc. Within four years, North Korea was recognized by 93 countries, on par with South Korea's recognition by 96 countries. North Korea gained entry into the World Health Organization and, as a result, sent its first permanent observer missions to the United Nations (UN).^[79] In 1975, it joined the Non-Aligned Movement.^[80]

During the 1970s, both North and South began building up their military capacity.^[81] It was discovered that North Korea had dug tunnels under the DMZ which could accommodate thousands of troops.^[82] Alarmed at the prospect of US disengagement, South Korea began a secret nuclear weapons program which was strongly opposed by Washington.^[83]

In 1977, US President Jimmy Carter proposed the withdrawal of troops from South Korea. There was a widespread backlash in America and in South Korea, and critics argued that this would allow the North to capture Seoul. Carter postponed the move, and his successor Ronald Reagan reversed the policy, increasing troop numbers to forty-three thousand.^[84] After Reagan supplied the South with F-16 fighters, and after Kim Il-sung visited Moscow in 1984, the USSR recommenced military aid and co-operation with the North.^[85]

Unrest in South Korea came to a head with the Gwangju Uprising in 1980. The dictatorship equated dissent with North Korean subversion. On the other hand, some young protesters viewed the US as complicit in political repression and identified with the North's nationalist propaganda.^[86]^[87]

In 1983 North Korea carried out the Rangoon bombing, a failed assassination attempt against South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan while he was visiting Burma.^[88] The bombing of Korean Air Flight 858 in 1987, in the lead up to the Seoul Olympics, led to the US government placing North Korea on its list of terrorist countries.^[89]^[90] North Korea launched a boycott of the Games, supported by Cuba, Ethiopia, Albania and the Seychelles.^[91]

In 1986, former South Korean foreign minister Choe Deok-sin defected to North Korea, becoming a leader of the Chondoist Chongu Party.^[92]

In the 1980s, the South Korean government built a 98-metre (322 ft) tall flagpole in the village of Daeseong-dong in the DMZ. In response, North Korea built a 160-metre (520 ft) tall flagpole in the nearby village of Kijŏng-dong.^[45]

Isolation and confrontation

As the Cold War ended, North Korea lost the support of the Soviet Union and plunged into an economic crisis. With the death of leader Kim Il-sung in 1994,^[93] there were expectations that the North Korean government could collapse and the peninsula would be reunified.^[94]^[95]

In 1994, US President Bill Clinton considered bombing the Yongbyon nuclear reactor, but he later dismissed this option when he was advised that if war broke out, it could cost 52,000 US and 490,000 South Korean military casualties in the first three months, as well as a large number of civilian casualties.^[96]^[97] Instead, in 1994, the US and North Korea signed an Agreed Framework which aimed to freeze North Korea's nuclear program. In 1998, South Korean President Kim Dae-jung initiated the Sunshine Policy which aimed to foster better relations with the North.^[98] However, in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, US President George W. Bush denounced the policy, and in 2002 branded North Korea a member of an "Axis of Evil".^[2]^[3] Six-party talks involving North and South Korea, the United States, Russia, Japan, and China commenced in 2003 but failed to achieve a resolution. In 2006, North Korea announced it had successfully conducted its first nuclear test.^[99] The Sunshine Policy was formally abandoned by South Korean President Lee Myung-bak after his election in 2007.^[100]

At the start of the twenty first century, it was estimated that the concentration of firepower in the area between Pyongyang and Seoul was greater than that in central Europe during the Cold War.^[101] The North's Korean People's Army was numerically twice the size of South Korea's military and had the capacity to devastate Seoul with artillery and missile bombardment. South Korea's military, however, was assessed as being technically superior in many ways.^[102]^[103] US forces remained in South Korea and carried out annual military exercises with South Korean forces, including Key Resolve, Foal Eagle, and Ulchi-Freedom Guardian. These were routinely denounced by North Korea as acts of aggression.^[104]^[105]^[106] Between 1997 and 2016, the North Korea government accused other governments of declaring war against it 200 times.^[107] Analysts have described the US garrison as a tripwire ensuring American military involvement, but some have queried whether sufficient reinforcements would be forthcoming.^[108]

During this period, two North Korean submarines were captured after being stranded on the South Korean coast, one near Gangneung in 1996 and one near Sokcho in 1998. In December 1998, the South Korean navy sank a North Korean semi-submersible in the Battle of Yeosu. In 2001, the Japanese Coast Guard sank a North Korean spy ship in the Battle of Amami-Ōshima.

South Korea ceased sending "North Korea Demolition Agents" to raid the North in the early 2000s.^[69]^[109]

Conflict intensified near the disputed maritime boundary known as the Northern Limit Line in the Yellow Sea. In 1999 and 2002, there were clashes between the navies of North and South Korea, known as the First and Second battle of Yeonpyeong. On 26 March 2010, a South Korean naval vessel, the ROKS Cheonan, sank, near Baengnyeong Island in the Yellow Sea and a North Korean torpedo was blamed. On 23 November 2010, in response to a joint military exercise, North Korea fired artillery at South Korea's Greater Yeonpyeong island in the Yellow Sea, and South Korea returned fire.

In 2013, amidst tensions about its missile program, North Korea forced the temporary shutdown of the jointly operated Kaesong Industrial Region.^[110] The zone was shut again in 2016.^[111] A South Korean parliamentarian was convicted of plotting a campaign of sabotage to support the North in 2013 and jailed for 12 years.^[112] In 2014, according to the New York Times, US President Barack Obama ordered the intensification of cyber and electronic warfare to disrupt North Korea's missile testing,^[113] but this account has been disputed by analysts from the Nautilus Institute.^[114]

In 2016, in the face of protests, South Korea decided to deploy the US THAAD anti-missile system.^[115] After North Korea's fifth nuclear test in September 2016, it was reported that South Korea had developed a plan to raze Pyongyang if there were signs of an impending nuclear attack from the North.^[116] A North Korean numbers station started broadcasting again, after a break of 16 years, apparently sending coded messages to agents in the South.^[45] As South Korea was convulsed by scandal, North Korea enthusiastically supported the removal of President Park Geun-hye, intensifying leaflet drops.^[117] In turn, Park's supporters accused the opposition Liberty Korea Party of basing its logo on Pyongyang's Juche Tower.^[118]

In March 2017, it was reported that the South Korean government had increased the rewards to North Korean defectors who brought classified information or military equipment with them.^[119] It was also reported that in 2016 North Korea hackers had stolen classified South Korean military data, including a plan for the killing of Kim Jong-un. According to cybersecurity experts, North Korea maintained an army of hackers trained to disrupt enemy computer networks and steal both money and sensitive data. In the previous decade, it was blamed for numerous cyber-attacks and other hacking attacks in South Korea and elsewhere,^[120] including the hack of Sony Pictures supposedly in retaliation for the release of the 2013 film The Interview, which depicts the assassination of Kim Jong-un.^[121]

Tension and détente

2017 saw a period of heightened tension between the US and North Korea. Early in the year, the incoming US President Donald Trump abandoned the policy of "strategic patience" associated with the preceding Obama administration. Later in the year, Moon Jae-in was elected President of South Korea with a promise to return to the Sunshine Policy.^[122] On 4 July 2017, North Korea successfully conducted its first test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), named Hwasong-14.^[123] It conducted another test on 28 July.^[124] On 5 August 2017, the UN imposed further sanctions which were met with defiance from the North Korean government.^[125]

Following the sanctions, Trump warned that North Korean nuclear threats "will be met with fire, fury and frankly power, the likes of which the world has never seen before". In response, North Korea announced that it was considering a missile test in which the missiles would land near the US territory of Guam.^[126]^[127] On 29 August, North Korea fired another missile.^[128] Days later with tensions still high, North Korea conducted their sixth nuclear test on 3 September.^[129] The test was met with international condemnation and resulted in further economic sanctions being taken against North Korea.^[130] Just over two weeks after their previous test, North Korea launched another missile.^{[citation needed]} On 28 November, North Korea launched a further missile, which, according to analysts, would be capable of reaching anywhere in the United States.^[131] The test resulted in the United Nations placing further sanctions on the country.^[132]

In January 2018, the Vancouver Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on Security and Stability on Korean Peninsula was co-hosted by Canada and the USA regarding ways to increase the effectiveness of the sanctions on North Korea.^[133] The co-chairs (Canadian Foreign Minister Freeland and US Secretary of State Tillerson) issued a summary that emphasized the urgency of persuading North Korea to denuclearize and emphasizing the need for sanctions to create conditions for a diplomatic solution.^[134]

When Kim Jong-un proposed participating in the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea in his New Year's address, the Seoul–Pyongyang hotline was reopened after almost two years.^[135] In February, North Korea sent an unprecedented high-level delegation to the Games, headed by Kim Yo-jong, sister of Kim Jong-un, and President Kim Yong-nam, which passed on an invitation to President Moon to visit the North.^[136] Kim Jong-un and Moon met at the Joint Security Area on 27 April, where they announced that their governments would work toward a denuclearized Korean Peninsula and formalize peace between North and South Korea.^[137] On 12 June, Kim met with Donald Trump at a summit in Singapore and signed a declaration, affirming the same commitment.^[138] Trump announced that he would halt military exercises with South Korea and foreshadowed withdrawing American troops entirely.^[139]

In September 2018, at a summit with Moon in Pyongyang, Kim agreed to dismantle North Korea's nuclear weapons facilities if the United States took reciprocal action. The two governments also announced that they would establish buffer zones on their borders to prevent clashes.^[140] On 1 November, buffer zones were established across the DMZ to help ensure the end of hostility on land, sea and air.^[141] The buffer zones stretched from the north of Deokjeok Island to the south of Cho Island in the West Sea and the north of Sokcho city and south of Tongchon County in the East (Yellow) Sea.^[141]^[142] In addition, no fly zones were established along the DMZ.^[141]^[142]

In February 2019 in Hanoi, a second summit between Kim and Trump broke down without an agreement.^[143] On June 30, 2019, President Trump met with Kim Jong-un along with Moon Jae-in at the DMZ, making him the first sitting US president to enter North Korea.^[144] Talks in Stockholm began on 5 October 2019 between US and North Korean negotiating teams, but broke down after one day.^[145] In June 2020, North Korea demolished the inter-Korean joint liaison office in Kaesong.^[146]

In February 2021, South Korea continued to omit North Korea's "enemy" status from the South Korean military's White Paper.^[147]^[148] In late 2021, President Moon, nearing the end of his five-year term, convened a forum, "Declaration of the End of the War: The Limitations and Prospects" continuing to seek a diplomatic breakthrough; but this was opposed by some speakers, including representatives of the People Power Party.^[149] On 9 September 2022, North Korea passed a law to declare itself a nuclear weapons state.^[150]

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 The [[division of Korea]] by the United States and the Soviet Union occurred in 1945. Both superpowers created a government in their own image. Tensions erupted into the [[Korean War]], which lasted from 1950 to 1953. When the war ended, both countries were devastated but the division remained. North and South Korea continued a military standoff, with periodic clashes. The conflict survived the end of the Cold War and continues to this day.
-The US maintains a [[United States Forces Korea|military presence in the South]] to assist South Korea in accordance with the [[Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea|ROK–US Mutual Defense Treaty]]. In 1997, US President [[Bill Clinton]] described the division of Korea as the "Cold War's last divide".<ref>{{cite book |author= Hyung Gu Lynn |date= 2007 |title= Bipolar Orders: The Two Koreas since 1989 |publisher= Zed Books |page=3}}</ref> In 2002, US President [[George W. Bush]] described North Korea as a member of an "[[axis of evil]]".<ref name="auto">{{cite book | title = Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History| last = Cumings| first = Bruce| author-link = Bruce Cumings| year = 2005| publisher = [[W. W. Norton & Company]]| location = New York| isbn = 0-393-32702-7 |page=504}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{cite book | title = Korea| last = Bluth | first = Christoph | year = 2008| publisher = Polity Press| location = Cambridge| isbn = 978-07456-3357-2 |page=112}}</ref> Facing increasing isolation, North Korea developed [[North Korea and weapons of mass destruction|missile and nuclear capabilities]].
+The US maintains a [[United States Forces Korea|military presence in the South]] to assist South Korea in accordance with the [[Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea|ROK–US Mutual Defense Treaty]]. In 1997, US President [[Bill Clinton]] described the division of Korea as the "Cold War's last divide".<ref>{{cite book |author= Hyung Gu Lynn |date= 2007 |title= Bipolar Orders: The Two Koreas since 1989 |url= https://archive.org/details/bipolarorderstwo00lynn |publisher= Zed Books |page=[https://archive.org/details/bipolarorderstwo00lynn/page/n17 3]}}</ref> In 2002, US President [[George W. Bush]] described North Korea as a member of an "[[axis of evil]]".<ref name="auto">{{cite book | title = Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History| last = Cumings| first = Bruce| author-link = Bruce Cumings| year = 2005| publisher = [[W. W. Norton & Company]]| location = New York| isbn = 0-393-32702-7 |page=504}}</ref><ref name="auto1">{{cite book | title = Korea| last = Bluth | first = Christoph | year = 2008| publisher = Polity Press| location = Cambridge| isbn = 978-07456-3357-2 |page=112}}</ref> Facing increasing isolation, North Korea developed [[North Korea and weapons of mass destruction|missile and nuclear capabilities]].
 Following heightened tension throughout 2017, 2018 saw North and South Korea, and the US, holding a [[2018 Korean peace process|series of summits]] which promised peace and nuclear disarmament. This led to the [[Panmunjom Declaration]] on 27 April 2018, when the North and the South agreed to work together to [[denuclearize]] the peninsula, improve inter-Korean relations, end the conflict and move towards the [[Korean reunification|peaceful reunification]].
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 {{see also|Korean Empire|Korea under Japanese rule}}
-Korea was [[Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty|annexed]] by the [[Empire of Japan]] on 22 August 1910 and ruled by it until 2 September 1945. In the following decades during the [[Japanese occupation of Korea]], the nationalist and radical groups emerged, mostly in exile, to struggle for [[Korean independence movement|independence]]. Divergent in their outlooks and approaches, these groups failed to unite into a single national movement.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |pages=31–37}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History| last = Cumings| first = Bruce| author-link = Bruce Cumings| year = 2005| publisher = [[W. W. Norton & Company]]| location = New York| isbn = 0-393-32702-7 |pages=156–60}}</ref> Based in China, the [[Korean Provisional Government]] failed to obtain widespread recognition.<ref>{{cite book | title = Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History| last = Cumings| first = Bruce| author-link = Bruce Cumings| year = 2005| publisher = [[W. W. Norton & Company]]| location = New York| isbn = 0-393-32702-7 |pages=159–60}}</ref> The many leaders advocating for Korean independence included the conservative and US-educated [[Syngman Rhee]], who lobbied the US government, and the Communist [[Kim Il-sung]], who fought a guerrilla war against the Japanese from neighboring [[Manchuria]] to the north of Korea.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |pages=35–36, 46–47}}</ref>
+Korea was [[Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty|annexed]] by the [[Empire of Japan]] on 22 August 1910 and ruled by it until 2 September 1945. In the following decades during the [[Japanese occupation of Korea]], the nationalist and radical groups emerged, mostly in exile, to struggle for [[Korean independence movement|independence]]. Divergent in their outlooks and approaches, these groups failed to unite into a single national movement.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | url = https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n41 31]–37}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History| last = Cumings| first = Bruce| author-link = Bruce Cumings| year = 2005| publisher = [[W. W. Norton & Company]]| location = New York| isbn = 0-393-32702-7 |pages=156–60}}</ref> Based in China, the [[Korean Provisional Government]] failed to obtain widespread recognition.<ref>{{cite book | title = Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History| last = Cumings| first = Bruce| author-link = Bruce Cumings| year = 2005| publisher = [[W. W. Norton & Company]]| location = New York| isbn = 0-393-32702-7 |pages=159–60}}</ref> The many leaders advocating for Korean independence included the conservative and US-educated [[Syngman Rhee]], who lobbied the US government, and the Communist [[Kim Il-sung]], who fought a guerrilla war against the Japanese from neighboring [[Manchuria]] to the north of Korea.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | url = https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n45 35]–36, 46–47}}</ref>
-Following the [[Surrender of Japan|end of the occupation]], many high-ranking Koreans [[Chinilpa|were accused of collaborating]] with [[Japanese imperialism]].<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |pages=48–49}}</ref> An intense and bloody struggle between various figures and political groups aspiring to lead Korea ensued.<ref name="auto2">{{cite book| title = Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey | url = https://archive.org/details/koreastwentieth00robi | url-access = registration | last = Robinson | first = Michael E | year = 2007 | publisher = University of Hawaii Press |  location = Honolulu | isbn = 978-0-8248-3174-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/koreastwentieth00robi/page/103 103]}}</ref>
+Following the [[Surrender of Japan|end of the occupation]], many high-ranking Koreans [[Chinilpa|were accused of collaborating]] with [[Japanese imperialism]].<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | url = https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n58 48]–49}}</ref> An intense and bloody struggle between various figures and political groups aspiring to lead Korea ensued.<ref name="auto2">{{cite book| title = Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey | url = https://archive.org/details/koreastwentieth00robi | url-access = registration | last = Robinson | first = Michael E | year = 2007 | publisher = University of Hawaii Press |  location = Honolulu | isbn = 978-0-8248-3174-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/koreastwentieth00robi/page/103 103]}}</ref>
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 {{see also|United States Army Military Government in Korea}}
-On 9 August 1945, as agreed by the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] at the [[Yalta Conference]], the [[Soviet Union]] [[Soviet–Japanese War|declared war on Japan]] and advanced into [[Korea]]. The US government requested that the Soviet advance stop at the [[38th parallel north|38th parallel]]. The US forces were to occupy the area south of the 38th parallel, including the capital, [[Seoul]]. This division of Korea into two zones of occupation was incorporated into [[General Order No. 1]] which was given to Japanese forces after the [[surrender of Japan]] on 15 August. On 24 August, the [[Red Army]] entered [[Pyongyang]] and established a military government over Korea north of the parallel. American forces landed in the south on 8 September and established the [[United States Army Military Government in Korea|US Army Military Government in Korea]].<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=50}}</ref>
+On 9 August 1945, as agreed by the [[Allies of World War II|Allies]] at the [[Yalta Conference]], the [[Soviet Union]] [[Soviet–Japanese War|declared war on Japan]] and advanced into [[Korea]]. The US government requested that the Soviet advance stop at the [[38th parallel north|38th parallel]]. The US forces were to occupy the area south of the 38th parallel, including the capital, [[Seoul]]. This division of Korea into two zones of occupation was incorporated into [[General Order No. 1]] which was given to Japanese forces after the [[surrender of Japan]] on 15 August. On 24 August, the [[Red Army]] entered [[Pyongyang]] and established a military government over Korea north of the parallel. American forces landed in the south on 8 September and established the [[United States Army Military Government in Korea|US Army Military Government in Korea]].<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | url = https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n60 50]}}</ref>
 [[File:KMAG Headquarters, Seoul, South Korea circa 1950.jpg|thumb|213px|left| US Military Advisory Group Headquarters,   South Korea,  c. 1950]]
-The Allies had originally envisaged a joint trusteeship which would steer Korea towards independence, but most Korean nationalists wanted independence immediately.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=59}}</ref> Meanwhile, the wartime co-operation between the Soviet Union and the US deteriorated as the [[Cold War]] took hold. Both occupying powers began promoting into positions of authority Koreans aligned with their side of politics and marginalizing their opponents. Many of these emerging political leaders were returning exiles with little popular support.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |pages=50–51, 59}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History| last = Cumings| first = Bruce| author-link = Bruce Cumings| year = 2005| publisher = [[W. W. Norton & Company]]| location = New York| isbn = 0-393-32702-7 |pages=194–95}}</ref> In North Korea, the Soviet Union supported Korean communists. Kim Il-sung, who from 1941 had served in the Soviet Army, became the major political figure.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=56}}</ref> Society was [[Centralisation|centralized]] and [[collectivized]], following the Soviet model.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=68}}</ref> Politics in the South were more tumultuous, but the strongly anti-communist Syngman Rhee, who had been educated in the US, was positioned as the most prominent politician.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |pages=66, 69}}</ref>
+The Allies had originally envisaged a joint trusteeship which would steer Korea towards independence, but most Korean nationalists wanted independence immediately.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | url = https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n69 59]}}</ref> Meanwhile, the wartime co-operation between the Soviet Union and the US deteriorated as the [[Cold War]] took hold. Both occupying powers began promoting into positions of authority Koreans aligned with their side of politics and marginalizing their opponents. Many of these emerging political leaders were returning exiles with little popular support.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | url = https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n60 50]–51, 59}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History| last = Cumings| first = Bruce| author-link = Bruce Cumings| year = 2005| publisher = [[W. W. Norton & Company]]| location = New York| isbn = 0-393-32702-7 |pages=194–95}}</ref> In North Korea, the Soviet Union supported Korean communists. Kim Il-sung, who from 1941 had served in the Soviet Army, became the major political figure.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | url = https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n66 56]}}</ref> Society was [[Centralisation|centralized]] and [[collectivized]], following the Soviet model.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | url = https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n78 68]}}</ref> Politics in the South were more tumultuous, but the strongly anti-communist Syngman Rhee, who had been educated in the US, was positioned as the most prominent politician.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | url = https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n76 66], 69}}</ref>
 In [[South Korea]], a [[1948 South Korean Constitutional Assembly election|general election]] was held on 10 May 1948. The Republic of Korea (or ROK) was established with Syngman Rhee as president, and formally replaced the US military occupation on 15 August. In North Korea, the [[Democratic People's Republic of Korea]] (or DPRK) was declared on 9 September, with [[Kim Il-sung]], as prime minister. Soviet occupation forces left the DPRK on 10 December 1948. US forces left the ROK the following year, though the US [[Korean Military Advisory Group]] remained to train the [[Republic of Korea Army]].<ref>{{cite book| title = Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History| last = Cumings| first = Bruce| author-link = Bruce Cumings| year = 2005| publisher = [[W. W. Norton & Company]]| location = New York| isbn = 0-393-32702-7 |pages=255–56}}</ref> The new regimes even adopted different [[Names of Korea|names for Korea]]: the North choosing ''Choson'', and the South ''Hanguk''.<ref>{{cite book | title = Korea| last = Bluth | first = Christoph | year = 2008| publisher = Polity Press| location = Cambridge| isbn = 978-07456-3357-2 |page=178}}</ref>
-Both opposing governments considered themselves to be the government of the whole of Korean Peninsula (as they do to this day), and both saw the division as temporary.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=72}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| title = Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History| last = Cumings| first = Bruce| author-link = Bruce Cumings| year = 2005| publisher = [[W. W. Norton & Company]]| location = New York| isbn = 0-393-32702-7 |pages=505–06}}</ref> Kim Il-sung lobbied [[Stalin]] and [[Mao Zedong|Mao]] for support in a war of reunification, while Syngman Rhee repeatedly expressed his desire to conquer the North.<ref>{{cite book| title = Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History| last = Cumings| first = Bruce| author-link = Bruce Cumings| year = 2005| publisher = [[W. W. Norton & Company]]| location = New York| isbn = 0-393-32702-7 |pages=249–58}}</ref><ref name="auto3">{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=71}}</ref> In 1948, North Korea, which had almost all of the generators, turned off the electricity supply to the South.<ref name="auto4">{{cite book| title = Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey | url = https://archive.org/details/koreastwentieth00robi | url-access = registration | last = Robinson | first = Michael E | year = 2007 | publisher = University of Hawaii Press |  location = Honolulu | isbn = 978-0-8248-3174-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/koreastwentieth00robi/page/120 120]}}</ref> In the lead-up to the outbreak of civil war, there were frequent clashes along the 38th parallel, especially at [[Kaesong]] and [[Ongjin County, South Hwanghae|Ongjin]], initiated by both sides.<ref>{{cite book | title = Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History| last = Cumings| first = Bruce| author-link = Bruce Cumings| year = 2005| publisher = [[W. W. Norton & Company]]| location = New York| isbn = 0-393-32702-7 |pages=247–53}}</ref><ref>{{citation |last=Stueck |first=William W. |year=2002 |title=Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, NJ |isbn=0-691-11847-7|page=71}}</ref>
+Both opposing governments considered themselves to be the government of the whole of Korean Peninsula (as they do to this day), and both saw the division as temporary.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | url = https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n82 72]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| title = Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History| last = Cumings| first = Bruce| author-link = Bruce Cumings| year = 2005| publisher = [[W. W. Norton & Company]]| location = New York| isbn = 0-393-32702-7 |pages=505–06}}</ref> Kim Il-sung lobbied [[Stalin]] and [[Mao Zedong|Mao]] for support in a war of reunification, while Syngman Rhee repeatedly expressed his desire to conquer the North.<ref>{{cite book| title = Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History| last = Cumings| first = Bruce| author-link = Bruce Cumings| year = 2005| publisher = [[W. W. Norton & Company]]| location = New York| isbn = 0-393-32702-7 |pages=249–58}}</ref><ref name="auto3">{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | url = https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n81 71]}}</ref> In 1948, North Korea, which had almost all of the generators, turned off the electricity supply to the South.<ref name="auto4">{{cite book| title = Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey | url = https://archive.org/details/koreastwentieth00robi | url-access = registration | last = Robinson | first = Michael E | year = 2007 | publisher = University of Hawaii Press |  location = Honolulu | isbn = 978-0-8248-3174-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/koreastwentieth00robi/page/120 120]}}</ref> In the lead-up to the outbreak of civil war, there were frequent clashes along the 38th parallel, especially at [[Kaesong]] and [[Ongjin County, South Hwanghae|Ongjin]], initiated by both sides.<ref>{{cite book | title = Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History| last = Cumings| first = Bruce| author-link = Bruce Cumings| year = 2005| publisher = [[W. W. Norton & Company]]| location = New York| isbn = 0-393-32702-7 |pages=247–53}}</ref><ref>{{citation |last=Stueck |first=William W. |year=2002 |title=Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, NJ |isbn=0-691-11847-7|page=71}}</ref>
 Throughout this period there were uprisings in the South, such as the [[Jeju Uprising]] and the [[Yeosu–Suncheon Rebellion]], that were brutally suppressed. In all, over one hundred thousand lives were lost in fighting across Korea before the Korean War began.<ref>{{cite book | last = Jager | first = Sheila Miyoshi | author-link= Sheila Miyoshi Jager| title = Brothers at War – The Unending Conflict in Korea | year = 2013 | publisher = Profile Books | location = London | isbn = 978-1-84668-067-0|page=4}}</ref>
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 [[File:Korean War Memorial, Pyongyang, North Korea.jpg|thumb|right|The [[North Korea Peace Museum|Korean War Memorial]] in Pyongyang, North Korea, with the pyramidal [[Ryugyong Hotel]] in the background]]
-By 1950, North Korea had clear military superiority over the South. The Soviet occupiers had armed it with surplus weaponry and provided training. Many troops returning to North Korea were battle-hardened from their participation in the [[Chinese Civil War]], which had just ended.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=73}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey | url = https://archive.org/details/koreastwentieth00robi/page/114 | url-access = registration | last = Robinson | first = Michael E | year = 2007 | publisher = University of Hawaii Press | location = Honolulu | isbn = 978-0-8248-3174-5 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/koreastwentieth00robi/page/114 114–15] }}</ref> Kim Il-sung expected a quick victory, predicting that there would be pro-communist uprisings in the South and that the US would not intervene.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |pages=72, 77–78}}</ref> Rather than perceiving the conflict as a civil war, however, the West saw it in Cold War terms as communist aggression, related to recent events in China and Eastern Europe.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=86}}</ref>
+By 1950, North Korea had clear military superiority over the South. The Soviet occupiers had armed it with surplus weaponry and provided training. Many troops returning to North Korea were battle-hardened from their participation in the [[Chinese Civil War]], which had just ended.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | url = https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n83 73]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey | url = https://archive.org/details/koreastwentieth00robi/page/114 | url-access = registration | last = Robinson | first = Michael E | year = 2007 | publisher = University of Hawaii Press | location = Honolulu | isbn = 978-0-8248-3174-5 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/koreastwentieth00robi/page/114 114–15] }}</ref> Kim Il-sung expected a quick victory, predicting that there would be pro-communist uprisings in the South and that the US would not intervene.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | url = https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n82 72], 77–78}}</ref> Rather than perceiving the conflict as a civil war, however, the West saw it in Cold War terms as communist aggression, related to recent events in China and Eastern Europe.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | url = https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n96 86]}}</ref>
 [[File:Korean War bombing Wonsan.jpg|thumb|left|US planes bombing [[Wonsan]], North Korea, 1951]]
 North Korea invaded the South on 25 June 1950, and swiftly overran most of the country. In September 1950 [[United Nations Command|United Nations force]], led by the US, intervened to defend the South, and following the [[Battle of Incheon|Incheon Landing]] and [[Battle of Pusan Perimeter|breakout from the Pusan Perimeter]], [[UN Offensive, 1950|rapidly advanced into North Korea]]. As the UN force neared the border with China, Chinese forces intervened on behalf of North Korea, shifting the balance of the war again. Fighting ended on 27 July 1953, with an [[Korean Armistice Agreement|armistice]] that approximately restored the original boundaries between North and South Korea.<ref name="auto3"/>
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-Negotiations for an armistice began on 10 July 1951, as the war continued. The main issues were the establishment of a new demarcation line and the exchange of prisoners. After Stalin died, the Soviet Union brokered concessions which led to an agreement on 27 July 1953.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |pages=81–82}}</ref>
+Negotiations for an armistice began on 10 July 1951, as the war continued. The main issues were the establishment of a new demarcation line and the exchange of prisoners. After Stalin died, the Soviet Union brokered concessions which led to an agreement on 27 July 1953.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | url = https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n91 81]–82}}</ref>
 President Syngman Rhee opposed the armistice because it left Korea divided. As negotiations drew to a close, he attempted to sabotage the arrangements for the release of prisoners, and led mass rallies against the armistice.<ref>{{cite book | last = Jager | first = Sheila Miyoshi | title = Brothers at War – The Unending Conflict in Korea | year = 2013 | publisher = Profile Books | location = London | isbn = 978-1-84668-067-0|pages=278–81}}</ref> He refused to sign the agreement, but reluctantly agreed to abide by it.<ref name="auto6">{{cite book | title = Korea| last = Bluth | first = Christoph | year = 2008| publisher = Polity Press| location = Cambridge| isbn = 978-07456-3357-2 |page=20}}</ref>
-The armistice inaugurated an official ceasefire but did not lead to a [[peace treaty]] for two Koreas.<ref>{{cite book |author= Hyung Gu Lynn |date= 2007 |title= Bipolar Orders: The Two Koreas since 1989 |publisher= Zed Books |page=8}}</ref> It established the [[Korean Demilitarized Zone]] (DMZ), a buffer zone between the two sides, that intersected the 38th parallel but did not follow it.<ref name="auto6"/> Despite its name, the border was, and continues to be, one of the most militarized in the world.<ref name="auto5"/>
+The armistice inaugurated an official ceasefire but did not lead to a [[peace treaty]] for two Koreas.<ref>{{cite book |author= Hyung Gu Lynn |date= 2007 |title= Bipolar Orders: The Two Koreas since 1989 |url= https://archive.org/details/bipolarorderstwo00lynn |publisher= Zed Books |page=[https://archive.org/details/bipolarorderstwo00lynn/page/n22 8]}}</ref> It established the [[Korean Demilitarized Zone]] (DMZ), a buffer zone between the two sides, that intersected the 38th parallel but did not follow it.<ref name="auto6"/> Despite its name, the border was, and continues to be, one of the most militarized in the world.<ref name="auto5"/>
 North Korea announced that it would no longer abide by the armistice at least six times, in the years 1994, 1996, 2003, 2006, 2009, and 2013.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2009/05/28/46/0401000000AEN20090528004200315F.HTML |title=Chronology of major North Korean statements on the Korean War armistice |publisher=Yonhap |work=News |date=2009-05-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130312170354/http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2009/05/28/46/0401000000AEN20090528004200315F.HTML |archive-date=2013-03-12 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21709917 |title=North Korea ends peace pacts with South |work=BBC News |date=2013-03-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130311043455/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21709917 |archive-date=2013-03-11 |url-status=live }}</ref>
 ==Cold War era==
-After the war, the Chinese forces left, but [[United States Forces Korea|US forces remained in the South]]. Sporadic conflict continued. The North's occupation of the South left behind a guerrilla movement that persisted in the Cholla provinces.<ref name="auto5"/> On 1 October 1953, the United States and South Korea signed a [[Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea|defense treaty]].<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=206}}</ref> In 1958, the United States stationed nuclear weapons in South Korea.<ref>{{cite book | title = Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History| last = Cumings| first = Bruce| author-link = Bruce Cumings| year = 2005| publisher = [[W. W. Norton & Company]]| location = New York| isbn = 0-393-32702-7 |page=493}}</ref> In 1961, North Korea signed mutual defense treaties with the USSR and China.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=208}}</ref>  In the [[Sino-North Korean Mutual Aid and Cooperation Friendship Treaty]] China pledged to immediately render military and other assistance by all means to North Korea against any outside attack.<ref name=MIA>[http://www.marxists.org/subject/china/documents/china_dprk.htm ''Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance between the People's Republic of China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130122010459/http://www.marxists.org/subject/china/documents/china_dprk.htm |date=2013-01-22 }}, 11 July 1967.</ref> During this period, North Korea was described by former CIA director [[Robert Gates]] to be the "toughest intelligence target in the world".<ref>{{Cite book| last1= Oberdorfer| first1=Don| last2=Carlin| first2=Robert | title=The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History | publisher = Basic Books| year = 2014 | page = 48 | isbn = 9780465031238}}</ref> Alongside the military confrontation, there was a propaganda war, including [[Balloon propaganda campaigns in Korea|balloon propaganda campaigns]].<ref name="auto8">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43806930|title=North and South Korea: The petty side of diplomacy|first=Yvette|last=Tan|publisher=BBC|date=25 April 2018|access-date=21 July 2018|archive-date=2 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702144641/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43806930|url-status=live}}</ref>
+After the war, the Chinese forces left, but [[United States Forces Korea|US forces remained in the South]]. Sporadic conflict continued. The North's occupation of the South left behind a guerrilla movement that persisted in the Cholla provinces.<ref name="auto5"/> On 1 October 1953, the United States and South Korea signed a [[Mutual Defense Treaty Between the United States and the Republic of Korea|defense treaty]].<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | url = https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n216 206]}}</ref> In 1958, the United States stationed nuclear weapons in South Korea.<ref>{{cite book | title = Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History| last = Cumings| first = Bruce| author-link = Bruce Cumings| year = 2005| publisher = [[W. W. Norton & Company]]| location = New York| isbn = 0-393-32702-7 |page=493}}</ref> In 1961, North Korea signed mutual defense treaties with the USSR and China.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | url = https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n218 208]}}</ref>  In the [[Sino-North Korean Mutual Aid and Cooperation Friendship Treaty]] China pledged to immediately render military and other assistance by all means to North Korea against any outside attack.<ref name=MIA>[http://www.marxists.org/subject/china/documents/china_dprk.htm ''Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance between the People's Republic of China and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130122010459/http://www.marxists.org/subject/china/documents/china_dprk.htm |date=2013-01-22 }}, 11 July 1967.</ref> During this period, North Korea was described by former CIA director [[Robert Gates]] to be the "toughest intelligence target in the world".<ref>{{Cite book| last1= Oberdorfer| first1=Don| last2=Carlin| first2=Robert | title=The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History | publisher = Basic Books| year = 2014 | page = 48 | isbn = 9780465031238}}</ref> Alongside the military confrontation, there was a propaganda war, including [[Balloon propaganda campaigns in Korea|balloon propaganda campaigns]].<ref name="auto8">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43806930|title=North and South Korea: The petty side of diplomacy|first=Yvette|last=Tan|publisher=BBC|date=25 April 2018|access-date=21 July 2018|archive-date=2 July 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702144641/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-43806930|url-status=live}}</ref>
-The opposing regimes aligned themselves with opposing sides in the [[Cold War]]. Both sides received recognition as the legitimate government of Korea from the opposing blocs.<ref>{{cite report | title = The DPRK Diplomatic Relations | last1 = Wertz | first1 = Daniel | last2 = Oh | first2 = JJ | last3 = Kim | first3 = Insung | year = 2015 | publisher = National Committee on North Korea | url = http://www.ncnk.org/resources/publications/NCNK_Issue_Brief_DPRK_Diplomatic_Relations.pdf | page = 1 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161228074114/http://www.ncnk.org/resources/publications/NCNK_Issue_Brief_DPRK_Diplomatic_Relations.pdf | archive-date = 2016-12-28 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| last1= Oberdorfer| first1=Don| last2=Carlin| first2=Robert | title=The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History | publisher = Basic Books| year = 2014 | page = 123 | isbn = 9780465031238}}</ref> South Korea became a strongly anti-Communist military dictatorship.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |pages=107, 116}}</ref> North Korea presented itself as a champion of orthodox Communism, distinct from the Soviet Union and China. The regime developed the doctrine of [[Juche]] or self-reliance, which included extreme military mobilization.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |pages=93, 95–97}}</ref> In response to the threat of nuclear war, it constructed extensive facilities underground and in the mountains.<ref>{{cite book | title = Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History| last = Cumings| first = Bruce| author-link = Bruce Cumings| year = 2005| publisher = [[W. W. Norton & Company]]| location = New York| isbn = 0-393-32702-7 |page=497}}</ref><ref name="auto4"/> The [[Pyongyang Metro]] opened in the 1970s, with the capacity to double as bomb shelter.<ref>{{cite book|last=Springer|first=Chris|title=Pyongyang: the hidden history of the North Korean capital|year=2003|publisher=Entente Bt|isbn=978-963-00-8104-7|page=125}}</ref> Until the early 1970s, North Korea was economically the equal of the South.<ref>{{cite book| title = Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey | url = https://archive.org/details/koreastwentieth00robi | url-access = registration | last = Robinson | first = Michael E | year = 2007 | publisher = University of Hawaii Press |  location = Honolulu | isbn = 978-0-8248-3174-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/koreastwentieth00robi/page/148 148]}}</ref>
+The opposing regimes aligned themselves with opposing sides in the [[Cold War]]. Both sides received recognition as the legitimate government of Korea from the opposing blocs.<ref>{{cite report | title = The DPRK Diplomatic Relations | last1 = Wertz | first1 = Daniel | last2 = Oh | first2 = JJ | last3 = Kim | first3 = Insung | year = 2015 | publisher = National Committee on North Korea | url = http://www.ncnk.org/resources/publications/NCNK_Issue_Brief_DPRK_Diplomatic_Relations.pdf | page = 1 | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20161228074114/http://www.ncnk.org/resources/publications/NCNK_Issue_Brief_DPRK_Diplomatic_Relations.pdf | archive-date = 2016-12-28 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| last1= Oberdorfer| first1=Don| last2=Carlin| first2=Robert | title=The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History | publisher = Basic Books| year = 2014 | page = 123 | isbn = 9780465031238}}</ref> South Korea became a strongly anti-Communist military dictatorship.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | url = https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n117 107], 116}}</ref> North Korea presented itself as a champion of orthodox Communism, distinct from the Soviet Union and China. The regime developed the doctrine of [[Juche]] or self-reliance, which included extreme military mobilization.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | url = https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n103 93], 95–97}}</ref> In response to the threat of nuclear war, it constructed extensive facilities underground and in the mountains.<ref>{{cite book | title = Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History| last = Cumings| first = Bruce| author-link = Bruce Cumings| year = 2005| publisher = [[W. W. Norton & Company]]| location = New York| isbn = 0-393-32702-7 |page=497}}</ref><ref name="auto4"/> The [[Pyongyang Metro]] opened in the 1970s, with the capacity to double as bomb shelter.<ref>{{cite book|last=Springer|first=Chris|title=Pyongyang: the hidden history of the North Korean capital|year=2003|publisher=Entente Bt|isbn=978-963-00-8104-7|page=125}}</ref> Until the early 1970s, North Korea was economically the equal of the South.<ref>{{cite book| title = Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey | url = https://archive.org/details/koreastwentieth00robi | url-access = registration | last = Robinson | first = Michael E | year = 2007 | publisher = University of Hawaii Press |  location = Honolulu | isbn = 978-0-8248-3174-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/koreastwentieth00robi/page/148 148]}}</ref>
-South Korea [[South Korea in the Vietnam War|was heavily involved in the Vietnam War]].<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=116}}</ref> Hundreds of North Korean fighter pilots went to Vietnam, shooting down 26 US aircraft. Teams of North Korean psychological warfare specialists targeted South Korean troops, and Vietnamese guerrillas were trained in the North.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-vietnam-analysis/from-comrades-to-assassins-north-korea-and-vietnam-eye-new-chapter-with-trump-kim-summit-idUSKCN1Q40U6|title=From comrades to assassins, North Korea and Vietnam eye new chapter with Trump-Kim summit|first1=Kham|last1=Nguyen|first2=Ju-min|last2=Park|work=Reuters|date=15 February 2019|access-date=16 February 2019|archive-date=16 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216043934/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-vietnam-analysis/from-comrades-to-assassins-north-korea-and-vietnam-eye-new-chapter-with-trump-kim-summit-idUSKCN1Q40U6|url-status=live}}</ref>
+South Korea [[South Korea in the Vietnam War|was heavily involved in the Vietnam War]].<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | url = https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n126 116]}}</ref> Hundreds of North Korean fighter pilots went to Vietnam, shooting down 26 US aircraft. Teams of North Korean psychological warfare specialists targeted South Korean troops, and Vietnamese guerrillas were trained in the North.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-vietnam-analysis/from-comrades-to-assassins-north-korea-and-vietnam-eye-new-chapter-with-trump-kim-summit-idUSKCN1Q40U6|title=From comrades to assassins, North Korea and Vietnam eye new chapter with Trump-Kim summit|first1=Kham|last1=Nguyen|first2=Ju-min|last2=Park|work=Reuters|date=15 February 2019|access-date=16 February 2019|archive-date=16 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190216043934/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-usa-vietnam-analysis/from-comrades-to-assassins-north-korea-and-vietnam-eye-new-chapter-with-trump-kim-summit-idUSKCN1Q40U6|url-status=live}}</ref>
 [[File:USS Pueblo, Pyongyang, 2012.jpg|thumb|right|The captured USS ''Pueblo'' being visited by tourists in Pyongyang]]
-Tensions between North and South escalated in the late 1960s with a series of low-level armed clashes known as the [[Korean DMZ Conflict (1966-1969)|Korean DMZ Conflict]]. In 1966, Kim declared "liberation of the south" to be a "national duty".<ref>{{cite book | last = Jager | first = Sheila Miyoshi | title = Brothers at War – The Unending Conflict in Korea | year = 2013 | publisher = Profile Books | location = London | isbn = 978-1-84668-067-0|page=366}}</ref> In 1968, North Korean commandos launched the [[Blue House raid]], an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the South Korean President [[Park Chung-hee]]. Shortly after, the American spy ship [[USS Pueblo (AGER-2)|USS ''Pueblo'']] was captured by the North Korean navy.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=99}}</ref> The Americans saw the crisis in terms of the global confrontation with Communism, but, rather than orchestrating the incident, the Soviet government was concerned by it.<ref>{{cite book | last = Jager | first = Sheila Miyoshi | title = Brothers at War – The Unending Conflict in Korea | year = 2013 | publisher = Profile Books | location = London | isbn = 978-1-84668-067-0|page=371}}</ref> The crisis was initiated by Kim, inspired by Communist successes in the Vietnam War.<ref>{{Cite book| last1= Oberdorfer| first1=Don| last2=Carlin| first2=Robert | title=The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History | publisher = Basic Books| year = 2014 | pages = 50–51 | isbn = 9780465031238}}</ref>
+Tensions between North and South escalated in the late 1960s with a series of low-level armed clashes known as the [[Korean DMZ Conflict (1966-1969)|Korean DMZ Conflict]]. In 1966, Kim declared "liberation of the south" to be a "national duty".<ref>{{cite book | last = Jager | first = Sheila Miyoshi | title = Brothers at War – The Unending Conflict in Korea | year = 2013 | publisher = Profile Books | location = London | isbn = 978-1-84668-067-0|page=366}}</ref> In 1968, North Korean commandos launched the [[Blue House raid]], an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the South Korean President [[Park Chung-hee]]. Shortly after, the American spy ship [[USS Pueblo (AGER-2)|USS ''Pueblo'']] was captured by the North Korean navy.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | url = https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n109 99]}}</ref> The Americans saw the crisis in terms of the global confrontation with Communism, but, rather than orchestrating the incident, the Soviet government was concerned by it.<ref>{{cite book | last = Jager | first = Sheila Miyoshi | title = Brothers at War – The Unending Conflict in Korea | year = 2013 | publisher = Profile Books | location = London | isbn = 978-1-84668-067-0|page=371}}</ref> The crisis was initiated by Kim, inspired by Communist successes in the Vietnam War.<ref>{{Cite book| last1= Oberdorfer| first1=Don| last2=Carlin| first2=Robert | title=The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History | publisher = Basic Books| year = 2014 | pages = 50–51 | isbn = 9780465031238}}</ref>
 In 1967, Korean-born composer [[Isang Yun]] was kidnapped in West Germany by South Korean agents and imprisoned in South Korea on the charge of spying for the North. He was released after an international outcry.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Fraker|first1=Sara E.|title=The Oboe Works of Isang Yun|date=2009|isbn=9781109217803|page=27}}</ref>
-In 1969, North Korea [[1969 EC-121 shootdown incident|shot down a US EC-121 spy plane]] over the [[Sea of Japan]], killing all 31 crew on board, which constituted the largest single loss of US aircrew during the Cold War.<ref>{{cite book | last =Larson | first =George A. | year = 2001| title = Cold war shoot downs: Part two| work = Air Classics | publisher = Challenge Publications Inc.}}</ref> In 1969, [[Korean Air Lines YS-11 hijacking|Korean Air Lines YS-11 was hijacked]] and flown to North Korea. Similarly, in 1970, the hijackers of [[Japan Airlines Flight 351]] were given asylum in North Korea.<ref name="auto7">{{cite book | title = Korea| last = Bluth | first = Christoph | year = 2008| publisher = Polity Press| location = Cambridge| isbn = 978-07456-3357-2 |page=47}}</ref> In response to the Blue House raid, the South Korean government set up [[209th Detachment, 2325th Group|a special unit]] to assassinate Kim Il-sung, but the mission was aborted in 1972.<ref>{{cite book |author= Hyung Gu Lynn |date= 2007 |title= Bipolar Orders: The Two Koreas since 1989 |publisher= Zed Books |page=158}}</ref>
+In 1969, North Korea [[1969 EC-121 shootdown incident|shot down a US EC-121 spy plane]] over the [[Sea of Japan]], killing all 31 crew on board, which constituted the largest single loss of US aircrew during the Cold War.<ref>{{cite book | last =Larson | first =George A. | year = 2001| title = Cold war shoot downs: Part two| work = Air Classics | publisher = Challenge Publications Inc.}}</ref> In 1969, [[Korean Air Lines YS-11 hijacking|Korean Air Lines YS-11 was hijacked]] and flown to North Korea. Similarly, in 1970, the hijackers of [[Japan Airlines Flight 351]] were given asylum in North Korea.<ref name="auto7">{{cite book | title = Korea| last = Bluth | first = Christoph | year = 2008| publisher = Polity Press| location = Cambridge| isbn = 978-07456-3357-2 |page=47}}</ref> In response to the Blue House raid, the South Korean government set up [[209th Detachment, 2325th Group|a special unit]] to assassinate Kim Il-sung, but the mission was aborted in 1972.<ref>{{cite book |author= Hyung Gu Lynn |date= 2007 |title= Bipolar Orders: The Two Koreas since 1989 |url= https://archive.org/details/bipolarorderstwo00lynn |publisher= Zed Books |page=[https://archive.org/details/bipolarorderstwo00lynn/page/n172 158]}}</ref>
 [[File:Gijeong-ri Flag.jpg|thumb|left|The North Korean flagpole located near [[Panmunjom]]]]
-In 1974 a [[Mun Se-gwang|North Korean sympathizer]] attempted to assassinate President Park and killed his wife, [[Yuk Young-soo]].<ref>{{Cite book| last1= Oberdorfer| first1=Don| last2=Carlin| first2=Robert | title=The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History | publisher = Basic Books| year = 2014 | pages = 42–45 | isbn = 9780465031238}}</ref> In 1976, the [[Panmunjeom Axe incident]] led to the death of two US Army officers in the DMZ and threatened to trigger a wider war.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=210}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| last1= Oberdorfer| first1=Don| last2=Carlin| first2=Robert | title=The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History | publisher = Basic Books| year = 2014 | pages = 59–66 | isbn = 9780465031238}}</ref> In the 1970s, North Korea [[North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens|kidnapped a number of Japanese citizens]].<ref name="auto7"/>
+In 1974 a [[Mun Se-gwang|North Korean sympathizer]] attempted to assassinate President Park and killed his wife, [[Yuk Young-soo]].<ref>{{Cite book| last1= Oberdorfer| first1=Don| last2=Carlin| first2=Robert | title=The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History | publisher = Basic Books| year = 2014 | pages = 42–45 | isbn = 9780465031238}}</ref> In 1976, the [[Panmunjeom Axe incident]] led to the death of two US Army officers in the DMZ and threatened to trigger a wider war.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | url = https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n220 210]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| last1= Oberdorfer| first1=Don| last2=Carlin| first2=Robert | title=The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History | publisher = Basic Books| year = 2014 | pages = 59–66 | isbn = 9780465031238}}</ref> In the 1970s, North Korea [[North Korean abductions of Japanese citizens|kidnapped a number of Japanese citizens]].<ref name="auto7"/>
 In 1976, in now-declassified minutes, US Deputy Secretary of Defense [[William Clements]] told [[Henry Kissinger]] that there had been 200 raids or incursions into North Korea from the South, though not by the US military.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76ve12/d286 |title=Minutes of Washington Special Actions Group Meeting, Washington, August 25, 1976, 10:30 a.m. |date=25 August 1976 |access-date=12 May 2012 |publisher=[[Office of the Historian]], U.S. Department of State |quote=Clements: I like it. It doesn't have an overt character. I have been told that there have been 200 other such operations and that none of these have surfaced. Kissinger: It is different for us with the War Powers Act. I don't remember any such operations. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120925121535/http://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76ve12/d286 |archive-date=25 September 2012 }}</ref> According to South Korean politicians who have campaigned for compensation for the survivors, more than 7,700 secret agents infiltrated North Korea from 1953 to 1972, of which about 5,300 are believed not to have returned.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/world/south-korean-movie-unlocks-door-on-a-once-secret-past.html|title=South Korean Movie Unlocks Door on a Once-Secret Past|first=Norimitsu|last=Onishi|newspaper=New York Times|date=15 February 2004|access-date=5 October 2018|archive-date=22 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180922024846/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/world/south-korean-movie-unlocks-door-on-a-once-secret-past.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Details of only a few of these incursions have become public, including raids by South Korean forces in 1967 that had sabotaged about 50 North Korean facilities.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/02/116_80936.html |title=S. Korea raided North with captured agents in 1967 |newspaper=The Korea Times |author=Lee Tae-hoon |date=7 February 2011 |access-date=12 May 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001195904/http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/02/116_80936.html |archive-date=1 October 2012 }}</ref>  Other missions included targeting advisers from China and the Soviet Union in order to undermine relations between North Korea and its allies.<ref name="joins.com">{{cite web|url=https://news.joins.com/article/12709883|title=[현장 속으로] 돌아오지 못한 북파공작원 7726명|date=28 September 2013|access-date=30 September 2018|archive-date=30 September 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180930193103/https://news.joins.com/article/12709883|url-status=live}}</ref>
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 [[File:80th Anniversary Kim Il-Sung.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Kim Il-sung's 80th birthday ceremony with international guests, in 1992.]]
-When North-South dialogue started in 1972, North Korea began to receive diplomatic recognition from countries outside the Communist bloc. Within four years, North Korea was recognized by 93 countries, on par with South Korea's recognition by 96 countries. North Korea gained entry into the [[World Health Organization]] and, as a result, sent its first permanent observer missions to the [[United Nations]] (UN).<ref>{{Cite book| last1= Oberdorfer| first1=Don| last2=Carlin| first2=Robert | title=The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History | publisher = Basic Books| year = 2014 | pages = 36–37 | isbn = 9780465031238}}</ref> In 1975, it joined the [[Non-Aligned Movement]].<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 978-0-415-23749-9 |page=129}}</ref>
+When North-South dialogue started in 1972, North Korea began to receive diplomatic recognition from countries outside the Communist bloc. Within four years, North Korea was recognized by 93 countries, on par with South Korea's recognition by 96 countries. North Korea gained entry into the [[World Health Organization]] and, as a result, sent its first permanent observer missions to the [[United Nations]] (UN).<ref>{{Cite book| last1= Oberdorfer| first1=Don| last2=Carlin| first2=Robert | title=The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History | publisher = Basic Books| year = 2014 | pages = 36–37 | isbn = 9780465031238}}</ref> In 1975, it joined the [[Non-Aligned Movement]].<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | url = https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 978-0-415-23749-9 |page=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n139 129]}}</ref>
 During the 1970s, both North and South began building up their military capacity.<ref>{{Cite book| last1= Oberdorfer| first1=Don| last2=Carlin| first2=Robert | title=The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History | publisher = Basic Books| year = 2014 | pages = 47–49, 54–55 | isbn = 9780465031238}}</ref> It was discovered that North Korea had dug tunnels under the DMZ which could accommodate thousands of troops.<ref>{{Cite book| last1= Oberdorfer| first1=Don| last2=Carlin| first2=Robert | title=The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History | publisher = Basic Books| year = 2014 | pages = 45–47 | isbn = 9780465031238}}</ref> Alarmed at the prospect of US disengagement, South Korea began a [[South Korean nuclear research programs|secret nuclear weapons program]] which was strongly opposed by Washington.<ref>{{Cite book| last1= Oberdorfer| first1=Don| last2=Carlin| first2=Robert | title=The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History | publisher = Basic Books| year = 2014 | pages = 55–59 | isbn = 9780465031238}}</ref>
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 Unrest in South Korea came to a head with the [[Gwangju Uprising]] in 1980. The dictatorship equated dissent with North Korean subversion. On the other hand, some young protesters viewed the US as complicit in political repression and identified with the North's nationalist propaganda.<ref>{{cite book | last = Jager | first = Sheila Miyoshi | title = Brothers at War – The Unending Conflict in Korea | year = 2013 | publisher = Profile Books | location = London | isbn = 978-1-84668-067-0|pages=417–24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book| last1= Oberdorfer| first1=Don| last2=Carlin| first2=Robert | title=The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History | publisher = Basic Books| year = 2014 | pages = 98–103 | isbn = 9780465031238}}</ref>
-In 1983 North Korea carried out the [[Rangoon bombing]], a failed assassination attempt against South Korean President [[Chun Doo-hwan]] while he was visiting Burma.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |pages=147–48}}</ref> The bombing of [[Korean Air Flight 858]] in 1987, in the lead up to the [[Seoul Olympics]], led to the US government placing North Korea on its list of terrorist countries.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=165}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = Korea| last = Bluth | first = Christoph | year = 2008| publisher = Polity Press| location = Cambridge| isbn = 978-07456-3357-2 |pages=46–47}}</ref> North Korea launched a boycott of the Games, supported by [[Cuba]], [[People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia|Ethiopia]], [[People's Socialist Republic of Albania|Albania]] and the [[Seychelles]].<ref name="FindlingPelle1996">{{cite book|author1=John E. Findling|author2=Kimberly D. Pelle|title=Historical Dictionary of the Modern Olympic Movement|url=https://archive.org/details/historicaldictio00find|url-access=registration|year=1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-28477-9|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historicaldictio00find/page/182 182]–}}</ref>
+In 1983 North Korea carried out the [[Rangoon bombing]], a failed assassination attempt against South Korean President [[Chun Doo-hwan]] while he was visiting Burma.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | url = https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n157 147]–48}}</ref> The bombing of [[Korean Air Flight 858]] in 1987, in the lead up to the [[Seoul Olympics]], led to the US government placing North Korea on its list of terrorist countries.<ref>{{cite book| title = The Making of Modern Korea | url = https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo | last = Buzo | first = Adrian | year = 2002| publisher = Routledge|  location = London | isbn = 0-415-23749-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n175 165]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | title = Korea| last = Bluth | first = Christoph | year = 2008| publisher = Polity Press| location = Cambridge| isbn = 978-07456-3357-2 |pages=46–47}}</ref> North Korea launched a boycott of the Games, supported by [[Cuba]], [[People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia|Ethiopia]], [[People's Socialist Republic of Albania|Albania]] and the [[Seychelles]].<ref name="FindlingPelle1996">{{cite book|author1=John E. Findling|author2=Kimberly D. Pelle|title=Historical Dictionary of the Modern Olympic Movement|url=https://archive.org/details/historicaldictio00find|url-access=registration|year=1996|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-28477-9|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historicaldictio00find/page/182 182]–}}</ref>
 In 1986, former South Korean foreign minister [[Choe Deok-sin]] defected to North Korea, becoming a leader of the [[Chondoist Chongu Party]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/19/obituaries/choi-duk-shin-75-ex-south-korean-envoy.html?pagewanted=1|title=Choi Duk Shin, 75, Ex-South Korean Envoy|work=[[The New York Times]]|agency=[[Associated Press]]|date=November 19, 1989|access-date=7 October 2019|archive-date=8 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308142342/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/11/19/obituaries/choi-duk-shin-75-ex-south-korean-envoy.html?pagewanted=1|url-status=live}}</ref>
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 [[File:US Navy 090320-N-9928E-304 The aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) and ships of the John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group are underway in formation with naval vessels from the Republic of Korea.jpg|thumb|right|Vessels of US Carrier Strike Group Three sail in formation with ROK Navy ships during Key Resolve/Foal Eagle 2009]]
-As the Cold War ended, North Korea lost the support of the Soviet Union and plunged into an [[North Korean famine|economic crisis]]. With the death of leader [[Kim Il-sung]] in 1994,<ref>{{cite book |title=The Making of Modern Korea |last=Buzo |first=Adrian |year=2002 |publisher=Routledge | location=London |isbn=0-415-23749-1 |pages=173–76}}</ref> there were expectations that the North Korean government could collapse and the peninsula would be reunified.<ref>{{cite book |title=Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History |last=Cumings |first=Bruce |author-link=Bruce Cumings |year=2005 |publisher=[[W. W. Norton & Company]] |location=New York |isbn=0-393-32702-7 |page=509}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author= Hyung Gu Lynn |date=2007 |title=Bipolar Orders: The Two Koreas since 1989 |publisher=Zed Books |page=93}}</ref>
+As the Cold War ended, North Korea lost the support of the Soviet Union and plunged into an [[North Korean famine|economic crisis]]. With the death of leader [[Kim Il-sung]] in 1994,<ref>{{cite book |title=The Making of Modern Korea |url=https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo |last=Buzo |first=Adrian |year=2002 |publisher=Routledge | location=London |isbn=0-415-23749-1 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n183 173]–76}}</ref> there were expectations that the North Korean government could collapse and the peninsula would be reunified.<ref>{{cite book |title=Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History |last=Cumings |first=Bruce |author-link=Bruce Cumings |year=2005 |publisher=[[W. W. Norton & Company]] |location=New York |isbn=0-393-32702-7 |page=509}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author= Hyung Gu Lynn |date=2007 |title=Bipolar Orders: The Two Koreas since 1989 |url= https://archive.org/details/bipolarorderstwo00lynn |publisher=Zed Books |page=[https://archive.org/details/bipolarorderstwo00lynn/page/n107 93]}}</ref>
-In 1994, US President [[Bill Clinton]] considered bombing the [[Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center|Yongbyon nuclear reactor]], but he later dismissed this option when he was advised that if war broke out, it could cost 52,000 US and 490,000 South Korean military casualties in the first three months, as well as a large number of civilian casualties.<ref>{{cite book |last=Jager |first=Sheila Miyoshi |title=Brothers at War – The Unending Conflict in Korea |year=2013 |publisher=Profile Books |location=London |isbn=978-1-84668-067-0|page=439}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Oberdorfer |first1=Don |last2=Carlin |first2=Robert |title=The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History |publisher=Basic Books |year=2014 |page=247 |isbn=978-0-465-03123-8}}</ref> Instead, in 1994, the US and North Korea signed an [[Agreed Framework]] which aimed to freeze North Korea's nuclear program. In 1998, South Korean President [[Kim Dae-jung]] initiated the [[Sunshine Policy]] which aimed to foster better relations with the North.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Making of Modern Korea |last=Buzo |first=Adrian |year=2002 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=0-415-23749-1 |page=178}}</ref> However, in the aftermath of the [[September 11 attacks]], US President [[George W. Bush]] denounced the policy, and in 2002 branded North Korea a member of an "[[Axis of Evil]]".<ref name="auto" /><ref name="auto1" /> [[Six-party talks]] involving North and South Korea, the United States, Russia, Japan, and China commenced in 2003 but failed to achieve a resolution. In 2006, North Korea announced it had successfully conducted its [[2006 North Korean nuclear test|first nuclear test]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Korea |last=Bluth |first=Christoph |year=2008 |publisher=Polity Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0-7456-3357-2 |page=1}}</ref> The Sunshine Policy was formally abandoned by South Korean President [[Lee Myung-bak]] after his election in 2007.<ref>[http://www.voanews.com/english/news/South-Korea-Formally-Declares-End-to-Sunshine-Policy--108904544.html South Korea Formally Declares End to Sunshine Policy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120412215246/http://www.voanews.com/english/news/South-Korea-Formally-Declares-End-to-Sunshine-Policy--108904544.html |date=2012-04-12 }}, [http://www.voanews.com/ Voice of America] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120514131027/http://www.voanews.com/ |date=2012-05-14}}, 18 November 2010</ref>
+In 1994, US President [[Bill Clinton]] considered bombing the [[Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Center|Yongbyon nuclear reactor]], but he later dismissed this option when he was advised that if war broke out, it could cost 52,000 US and 490,000 South Korean military casualties in the first three months, as well as a large number of civilian casualties.<ref>{{cite book |last=Jager |first=Sheila Miyoshi |title=Brothers at War – The Unending Conflict in Korea |year=2013 |publisher=Profile Books |location=London |isbn=978-1-84668-067-0|page=439}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Oberdorfer |first1=Don |last2=Carlin |first2=Robert |title=The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History |publisher=Basic Books |year=2014 |page=247 |isbn=978-0-465-03123-8}}</ref> Instead, in 1994, the US and North Korea signed an [[Agreed Framework]] which aimed to freeze North Korea's nuclear program. In 1998, South Korean President [[Kim Dae-jung]] initiated the [[Sunshine Policy]] which aimed to foster better relations with the North.<ref>{{cite book |title=The Making of Modern Korea |url=https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo |last=Buzo |first=Adrian |year=2002 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=0-415-23749-1 |page=[https://archive.org/details/makingmodernkore00buzo/page/n188 178]}}</ref> However, in the aftermath of the [[September 11 attacks]], US President [[George W. Bush]] denounced the policy, and in 2002 branded North Korea a member of an "[[Axis of Evil]]".<ref name="auto" /><ref name="auto1" /> [[Six-party talks]] involving North and South Korea, the United States, Russia, Japan, and China commenced in 2003 but failed to achieve a resolution. In 2006, North Korea announced it had successfully conducted its [[2006 North Korean nuclear test|first nuclear test]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Korea |last=Bluth |first=Christoph |year=2008 |publisher=Polity Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0-7456-3357-2 |page=1}}</ref> The Sunshine Policy was formally abandoned by South Korean President [[Lee Myung-bak]] after his election in 2007.<ref>[http://www.voanews.com/english/news/South-Korea-Formally-Declares-End-to-Sunshine-Policy--108904544.html South Korea Formally Declares End to Sunshine Policy] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120412215246/http://www.voanews.com/english/news/South-Korea-Formally-Declares-End-to-Sunshine-Policy--108904544.html |date=2012-04-12 }}, [http://www.voanews.com/ Voice of America] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120514131027/http://www.voanews.com/ |date=2012-05-14}}, 18 November 2010</ref>
-At the start of the twenty first century, it was estimated that the concentration of firepower in the area between Pyongyang and Seoul was greater than that in central Europe during the Cold War.<ref>{{cite book |title=Korea |last=Bluth |first=Christoph |year=2008 |publisher=Polity Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0-7456-3357-2 |page=vi}}</ref> The North's [[Korean People's Army]] was numerically twice the size of South Korea's military and had the capacity to devastate Seoul with artillery and missile bombardment. South Korea's military, however, was assessed as being technically superior in many ways.<ref>{{cite book |title=Korea |last=Bluth |first=Christoph |year=2008 |publisher=Polity Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0-7456-3357-2 |pages=138–43}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Hyung Gu Lynn |date=2007 |title=Bipolar Orders: The Two Koreas since 1989 |publisher=Zed Books |pages=142–43}}</ref> [[United States Forces Korea|US forces remained in South Korea]] and carried out annual military exercises with South Korean forces, including [[Key Resolve]], [[Foal Eagle]], and [[Ulchi-Freedom Guardian]]. These were routinely denounced by North Korea as acts of aggression.<ref>{{cite news|title=Backgrounder: How DPRK has condemned U.S.-S. Korea joint military exercises|url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-08/22/c_135623963.htm|publisher=Xinhua|date=22 August 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823164622/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-08/22/c_135623963.htm|archive-date=23 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History |last=Cumings |first=Bruce |author-link=Bruce Cumings |year=2005 |publisher=[[W. W. Norton & Company]] |location=New York |isbn=0-393-32702-7 |pages=488–89, 494–96}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Oberdorfer |first1=Don |last2=Carlin |first2=Robert |title=The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History |publisher=Basic Books |year=2014 |pages=61, 213 |isbn=978-0-465-03123-8}}</ref> Between 1997 and 2016, the North Korea government accused other governments of declaring war against it 200 times.<ref>{{cite news|title=China, North Korea criticize new U.S. sanctions|url=https://www.nknews.org/2016/07/china-north-korea-criticize-new-u-s-sanctions/|first=Leo|last=Byrne|work=NK News|date=8 July 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160708130743/https://www.nknews.org/2016/07/china-north-korea-criticize-new-u-s-sanctions/|archive-date=8 July 2016}}</ref> Analysts have described the US garrison as a tripwire ensuring American military involvement, but some have queried whether sufficient reinforcements would be forthcoming.<ref>{{cite book |title=Korea |last=Bluth |first=Christoph |year=2008 |publisher=Polity Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0-7456-3357-2 |pages=144–45}}</ref>
+At the start of the twenty first century, it was estimated that the concentration of firepower in the area between Pyongyang and Seoul was greater than that in central Europe during the Cold War.<ref>{{cite book |title=Korea |last=Bluth |first=Christoph |year=2008 |publisher=Polity Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0-7456-3357-2 |page=vi}}</ref> The North's [[Korean People's Army]] was numerically twice the size of South Korea's military and had the capacity to devastate Seoul with artillery and missile bombardment. South Korea's military, however, was assessed as being technically superior in many ways.<ref>{{cite book |title=Korea |last=Bluth |first=Christoph |year=2008 |publisher=Polity Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0-7456-3357-2 |pages=138–43}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Hyung Gu Lynn |date=2007 |title=Bipolar Orders: The Two Koreas since 1989 |url=https://archive.org/details/bipolarorderstwo00lynn |publisher=Zed Books |pages=[https://archive.org/details/bipolarorderstwo00lynn/page/n156 142]–43}}</ref> [[United States Forces Korea|US forces remained in South Korea]] and carried out annual military exercises with South Korean forces, including [[Key Resolve]], [[Foal Eagle]], and [[Ulchi-Freedom Guardian]]. These were routinely denounced by North Korea as acts of aggression.<ref>{{cite news|title=Backgrounder: How DPRK has condemned U.S.-S. Korea joint military exercises|url=http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-08/22/c_135623963.htm|publisher=Xinhua|date=22 August 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160823164622/http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-08/22/c_135623963.htm|archive-date=23 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History |last=Cumings |first=Bruce |author-link=Bruce Cumings |year=2005 |publisher=[[W. W. Norton & Company]] |location=New York |isbn=0-393-32702-7 |pages=488–89, 494–96}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Oberdorfer |first1=Don |last2=Carlin |first2=Robert |title=The Two Koreas: A Contemporary History |publisher=Basic Books |year=2014 |pages=61, 213 |isbn=978-0-465-03123-8}}</ref> Between 1997 and 2016, the North Korea government accused other governments of declaring war against it 200 times.<ref>{{cite news|title=China, North Korea criticize new U.S. sanctions|url=https://www.nknews.org/2016/07/china-north-korea-criticize-new-u-s-sanctions/|first=Leo|last=Byrne|work=NK News|date=8 July 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160708130743/https://www.nknews.org/2016/07/china-north-korea-criticize-new-u-s-sanctions/|archive-date=8 July 2016}}</ref> Analysts have described the US garrison as a tripwire ensuring American military involvement, but some have queried whether sufficient reinforcements would be forthcoming.<ref>{{cite book |title=Korea |last=Bluth |first=Christoph |year=2008 |publisher=Polity Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0-7456-3357-2 |pages=144–45}}</ref>
 During this period, two North Korean submarines were captured after being stranded on the South Korean coast, [[1996 Gangneung submarine infiltration incident|one near Gangneung in 1996]] and [[1998 Sokcho submarine incident|one near Sokcho in 1998]]. In December 1998, the South Korean navy sank a North Korean [[semi-submersible]] in the [[Battle of Yeosu]]. In 2001, the Japanese Coast Guard sank a North Korean spy ship in the [[Battle of Amami-Ōshima]].