Quote Originally Posted by Keba
I was refering to South Korea, and IIRC, that country was formed in 1948, two years prior to the war, as a democratic republic, done under the supervision of the US, in accordance to the treaties signed with the Soviets, according to which the Soviets got the north part of the former state of Korea.
That is the text book answer - now what about the history of Korea before that. You claimed that it was untouched by war before the 1950 conflict - care to look into the actual history of Korea?


What exactly do you refer to? The excessive power in an elected official? Well, all states have this when faced with extreme circumstances. All other changes happened after the Korean War. He still was an elected official, though somewhat disputed. So what, my country had one like that as well.
See above - when you discover what the Japanese did to Korea come back to the discussion.

Care to take a wild guess what the stated aims of North Korea is in relation to South Korea? Would you like to take a swinging wild ass guess to how much violence is done along the DMZ each year by infliration by North Korean special forces into South Korea each year. Then there is the 40 shots fired just this weekend at a North Korean party in the DMZ.

Then try to figure out how many tunnels are under the DMZ built by the North Koreans?