Some are sending us tanks, others will do everything for Russia to win. Yes, the Peninsula is getting closer to Poland
The two Koreas unexpectedly began to have a huge impact on the security of our country, and the dispute dividing them reached our borders. While the South sells modern weapons to Poland, the North sends not only weapons but even its own soldiers to Russia. This is a completely unprecedented situation. What is the Korean conflict about and why is Korea divided? And how are the two Koreas changing Poland's situation?
Let's imagine that at the end of World War II, Allied troops pushed east a little faster and managed to reach Poland before the capitulation. German. The Americans and the Soviets met somewhere on the Vistula and Warta River lines and agreed that they would withdraw from the occupied areas as soon as Polish power became independent in Poland. World powers then focused on the most pressing global problems, while two Polish governments began operating in parallel in the two occupation zones – the Western-backed government in exile and the communist government appointed by Moscow.
More or less, in 1945, two Korean states began to emerge from one Korean state that had existed – with interruptions – for a thousand years. From the north, invading Soviet troops entered Japanese-occupied Korea with the almost unknown and trained by the NKVD as the new Korean leader, Kim Il-sung. Seeing this, American troops responded by landing in the south of the Korean Peninsula with their own “rival” leader, Washington-based Korean independence activist Rhee Syng-man (Li Syng Man).
In this way, a division began to form, even though no one wanted it. Korea was and was to continue to be one, and the US and USSR agreed that the two occupation zones were only temporary. However, the intensifying global rivalry between the two powers made it increasingly difficult to keep this agreement over time – because for Washington and Moscow the most important thing was for the new Korean government to be their ally. In this way, somewhat by accident, on the Korean Peninsula, eight thousand kilometers away from us, a local division was created, which might not interest us at all today, if not for the fact that its importance had just reached Poland and began to directly affect our security.
Division of Korea
The first and greatest victim of the division of Korea were the Koreans themselves, whose fate was decided without asking for their opinion. – Koreans still consider themselves victims of the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union – emphasizes Dr. Oskar Pietrewicz, an expert on the Korean Peninsula at the Polish Institute of International Affairs. In this respect, Korean history may sound very familiar to Poles.
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