The History of South Korea

No one, not either korean leadership nor the masses of north and south korea, saw it as truly legitimate. It was a line on a map that american officials came up with, meant to be temporary. Like kimel sung to his north, south k Korea's leader, manri also sought to reunify the country,. knowing full well that a war against communist forces would be the only way that would happen. From a certain perspective, chiefly the american perspective, it is useful and convenient to decide that all this history starts in june 19 50. But if you begin to look for context, you have to start grappling with some very uncomfortable facts about what happened before