Why NORTH KOREA Has Just Abandoned a Peaceful Reunification With SOUTH KOREA

Before the end of World War II, South and North Korea were united and formed one country. That is, it was only in 1948 that Korea separated into two countries. Korea was under Japanese rule from 1910 until 1945, when Japan surrendered, ending the Second World War. The winners were the Allied countries, the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, among others. So after the surrender, the United States proposed to divide Korea into two occupation zones. One American and the other Soviet, with the 38th parallel as the dividing line. The Soviets accepted the proposal and this division was supposed to be temporary while the conditions for a new sovereign and independent state were agreed upon after 35 years of Japanese occupation. However, the negotiations failed to reach any agreement. And in 1948 elections were held in South Korea, occupied by the United States, while Kim il Sung remained as leader of North Korea, occupied by the Soviets. North Korea, in an attempt to reunify the two Koreas, invaded South Korea in 1950 with the help of China and the Soviet Union. But the United States defended South Korea, and the war finally ended in a draw in 1953. And since then Korea has been divided until the present day. Since the division of the Korean peninsula into two; reunification, whether peaceful or not, had been the main goal. However, this seems further away than ever. So the questions are: Why is reunification now almost impossible? And why, if it does happen, would the reunification of East and West Germany serve as an example of how complicated a Korean reunification could be?
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