South Korea

General Douglas MacArthur commanded as supreme commander until his relief by President Truman. LGen Matthew Ridgeway was then appointed o the command.

North Korea is communist

South Korea is capitalist

Who decides what should be produced in North Korea?

Syngman Rhee. Rhee had originally been an opponent of Japanese occupation in Korea (from 1910 to 1945). He had lived in exile in the United States for many years and studied at several American Universities. He became President of the Republic of Korea in 1948 and assumed dictorial powers during the Korean War. He was eventually forced to resign in 1960 after protests over his rigging of elections.

As a staunch anti-Communist, Rhee was supported by the Americans and the West, but he remains controversial due to the number of civilians who died during his attempts to purge South Korea of Communists.

The citizens vote directly for the government not the party

mostly the state

Well Korea used to be one country, but then after World War II, Korea was taken away from Japan and became independent. But they decided not to be on country and they split into two countries, hence North and South Korea. North Korea became a communist government with the help of the soviet Union and South Korea became a democratic government with the help of the United States.

1. A limited war (limited to conventional non-nuclear weapons).

2. It was fought between two separate nations: North Korea and South Korea (with their appropiate allies).

3. A civil war is fought against itself. One nation fighting itself.

North Korea is communist, and South Korea is democratic. The Korean War had ended in a stalemate (when neither side gets a victory) so they remained split apart, and with different governments.

Kim Il Sung was the first president beginning in the late 1950's.

He was placed into power by the USSR.

Kim Il Sung is actually the Eternal president according to the current North Korean Constitution even though he's been deceased since 1994

the real question is, why are you even asking this? are you saying Koreans don't have the right to immigrate?

I honestly think war with Korea will come within the next 5 years. I could be wrong but it seems like what Nazi Germany did when Hitler started to come into power breaking pacts with the league of nations and eventually disbanding from it but with north Korea its nukes. They say that it is for self defense but i wouldn't be surprised if they launch a Missile at japan, south Korea, or even the US west coast considering they are working on long range missiles.

South Korea will start on north because of that island 'mishap' so yeah totally in the next 5 years. I wonder how will be in it

Korea was splited in 1948; at that time it was split into South Korea and North Korea.

Resulting in the korean war to this very day... their technically still against each other.

Korea has a LOT of different kinds of food, most very different from other countries. Korea is a peninsula in Asia, which means it's a bit of land sticking out into the ocean near China and Japan. Like most Asian countries, Korean meals involve a lot of rice and noodles. Because they have so much coastline and not much flat land, they have more foods involving fish than foods involving beef. Every meal has a lot of small bowls of side dishes around; veggies and tofu and stuff which you eat in addition to whatever main meal you've got. These are called banchan. A common banchan is kimchi, which is spicy fermented/marinated vegtables - usually cabbage, sometimes cucumber or carrot. Korean meals most familiar to westerners: ramen, which is a noodle soup; bi bim bhap, which is a bowl of rice with some marinated veggies, egg and chili paste; bul go gui, which is a barbecued beef usually eaten with rice and wrapped in a lettuce leaf If you want to learn more details about Korean food, try here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_cuisine

Although the goal of uniting the Korean peninsula under communist rule was unsuccessful, North Korea and its Communist allies still consider the conflict a victory because North Korea's government survived and exists to this day.

The border between north and south korea is like the most heavily armed border in the world! I mean that they have gazillions of land mines buried, an electric fence that is so long and soldiers there who are armed.

Japan gained military, political, and economic strength. It then sought to eliminate the extraterritorial rights of foreigners.

Korea Standard Time is 9 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).

Japan had Korea in their Imperial Realm for a long time before World War 2. In the early 20th Century Japan made a treaty with Korea which involved the Japanese ruling Korea. The Japanese modernized Korea which did not have much electricity or modern transportation. Though the Koreans wanted to be independent they did benefit from the improvements the Japanese brought to Korea. Some disliked the Japanese control and others just let them have a free hand in ruling over them.

WW2 changed the Korean's attitude toward the Japanese because they had been forced to fight in the Japanese military in 1939. They were also forced to do war manufacturing and other tasks. After the war they wanted their freedom.

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South Korea's highest point is Hallasan, an extinct volcano, which is 1,950 meters (6,398 feet) above sea level.

North Korea is currently communist, and has been communist since WWII. It is split from South Korea along the 38th parallel.
All of North Korea is Communist. Maybe not the civilians and/or other people living in North Korea, but definitely the government.

It wasn't . There is still North Korea and South Korea .South Korea is thriving, while North Korea has many people doing without bare necessities. The US still maintains a significant military prescence in South Korea to protect them .

As they did in the Vietnam War years later, the Red Chinese warned the US/Allies NOT to approach their borders. We did, they entered the war.