The tension between North and South Korea is legendary. Since the Korean War in the 1950s, reconciliation efforts have not been successful. And now, a photo of the North Korean map that circulates on the Internet has baffled policy researchers and other users. The map has been shared on the Chinese social media platform Rednote (Xiaohongshu) and states that the revised map was shared in April 2024, according to a report in Newsweek. It marks an important change in the country’s policy on unification by showing the Korean peninsula divided into two separate parts, which takes home the rest of the North Korean leader of the North Kim Jong one of the long -standing target of the eventual reunification with the south .
For decades, Pyongyang had demanded to meet with the south, but always in its terms. The three -year Korea war, which began when the communist north invaded south, ended in an armistice in 1953 without signing a peace treaty. Even so, Pyongyang continued to preach reunification for many years later, according to The news portal.
According Newsweek, Tagged “Joseon”, the term North Korea typically uses for itself, the map showed administrative districts only for the north and omitted them for the oldest graphics in the south that have been made public.
Instead, South Korea was shown in China and was labeled simply as “South Korea. This was a deviation from the term” puppet Korea “previously used, which implied that the south was not an independent country but a puppet state US.
Kim Jong Un, Supreme Leader of North Korea, he said in an October speech: “In the previous period, we talked a lot about liberating the south and unifying the country by force, but now we are not interested in that, and since Then we declare two countries, we are not even aware of that country. “
The rhetoric of North Korea in the South has been submitted since the December political crisis in Seoul, after the brief statement of martial law of President Yoon Suk-Yeol. Despite this, experts believe that Kim Jong a will not reverse his purge of unification symbols.
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