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Some will send us tanks, others will do anything for Russia's victory. Yes, the peninsula is getting closer to Poland
The two Koreas have had an unexpected impact on our country's security, and their division dispute has reached our border. While the South is selling modern weapons to Poland, the North is sending not only weapons, but even soldiers to Russia. This is a completely unique situation. What is the Korean conflict and why is Korea divided? And how will the two Koreas change the situation in Poland?
Imagine that at the end of World War II, the Allied troops pushed east a little faster and managed to reach Poland before Germany surrendered. The Americans and the Soviets met somewhere along the Vistula and Warta Rivers and agreed to withdraw from the occupied territories as soon as Poland became independent. At that time, the world powers focused on the world's most pressing problems, while the two Polish governments in the two occupation zones – the Western-backed government-in-exile and the communist government appointed by Moscow – began to work in parallel.
More or less, in 1945, two Korean states emerged from one Korean state that had existed for a thousand years. From the north, Soviet occupation forces entered Japanese-occupied Korea with almost unknown people trained by the NKVD as the new leader of Korea, Kim Il Sung. Seeing this, in response, American soldiers landed in the south of the Korean peninsula with the leader of their “rival”, Washington-based Korean independence activist Ri Sing-man (Lee Sing-man).
This is how the separation was created, even though no one wanted it. Korea was and will be one, and the US and the USSR agreed that the two occupation zones were only temporary. However, the intensity of the global rivalry between the two powers over time made it more difficult to maintain this agreement – because the most important thing for Washington and Moscow was that the new Korean government was their ally. In this way, somewhat by chance, a local division was formed on the Korean peninsula, which is eight thousand kilometers away from us, which might not interest us at all today, if its importance had just reached Poland, and it would not. directly affected our security.
Korean Division
The first and biggest victims of the division of Korea were the Koreans themselves, whose fate was decided without their opinion being asked. – Koreans still consider themselves victims of the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, – emphasizes Dr. Oskar Pietrewicz, an expert on the Korean Peninsula at the Polish Institute of International Relations. In this respect, Korean history may be very familiar to Poles.
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