North Korea Turns 59

by Richardson ~ September 8th, 2007. Filed under: History, North Korea.

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) was established on 09 September 1948:

In December 1945, a conference was convened in Moscow to discuss the future of Korea. A five-year trusteeship was discussed, and a joint Soviet-American commission was established. The commission met intermittently in Seoul but deadlocked over the issue of establishing a national government. In September 1947, with no solution in sight, the United States submitted the Korean question to the UN General Assembly. Initial hopes for a unified, independent Korea quickly evaporated as the politics of the Cold War and domestic opposition to the trusteeship plan resulted in the 1948 establishment of two separate nations with diametrically opposed political, economic, and social systems. Elections were held in the South under UN observation, and on August 15, 1948, the Republic of Korea (R.O.K.) was established in the South. Syngman Rhee, a nationalist leader, became the Republic’s first president. On September 9, 1948, the North established the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (D.P.R.K.) headed by then-Premier Kim Il-sung, who had been cultivated and supported by the U.S.S.R.

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3 Responses to North Korea Turns 59

  1. Jack
    September 8th, 2007 at 3:54 pm

    And to celebrate the occasion:

    http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/08/asia/AS-GEN-NKorea-US.php

    North Korea accused the United States on Saturday of seeking to overthrow the communist country’s regime “behind the screen of dialogue,” vowing unspecified stern punishment against any attempt to undermine it.

    Prime Minister Kim Yong Il made the accusation during a ceremony on the eve of North Korea’s founding anniversary.

    The barb came amid progress in international efforts to convince North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons programs, and is believed to be part of routine anti-U.S. rhetoric that Pyongyang usually issues to mark national holidays.

    “Behind the screen of dialogue, the U.S. is increasing military pressure against us while sticking pertinaciously to psychological warfare to collapse our republic from inside,” Kim said, according to footage of the North’s Korean Central Television Station seen in Seoul.

  2. Richardson
    September 8th, 2007 at 8:53 pm

    Thanks, I’d not seen that report yet. Classic DPRK-speak, and typical of them, though I doubt it will interfere with the current process.

  3. Jack
    September 9th, 2007 at 12:22 am

    Hey, let’s hope there will be no 60th.

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