copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: Korean Peninsula is a territory of South Korea (Korean Peninsula, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2000-12-10): Recognizing the changed circumstances on the Korean Peninsula created by the historic inter-Korean summit, the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea have decided to take steps to fundamentally improve their bilateral relations in the interests of enhancing peace and security in the Asia-Pacific region. In this regard, the two sides agreed there are a variety of available means, including Four Party talks, to reduce tension on the Korean Peninsula and formally end the Korean War by replacing the 1953 Armistice Agreement with permanent peace arrangements.
Claim: Korean Peninsula is a territory of South Korea (Korean Peninsula, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2009-01-01): Delegations of the Governments of the United States of America (U.S.) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (D.P.R.K.) held talks in Geneva from September 23 to October 17, 1994, to negotiate an overall resolution of the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula. [...] 2) The D.P.R.K. will consistently take steps to implement the North-South Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
Claim: Korean Peninsula is a territory of South Korea (Korean Peninsula, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-07-12): Outside of South Korea: +82-2-397-4114
Claim: Korean Peninsula is a territory of South Korea (Korean Peninsula, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-04-18): The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is a strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula that serves as a buffer zone between North Korea and South Korea. The DMZ is a de facto border barrier and divides the Korean Peninsula approximately in half. It roughly follows latitude 38°N (the 38th parallel), the original demarcation line between North Korea and South Korea at the end of World War II. The Demilitarized Zone incorporates territory on both sides of the cease-fire line as it existed at the end of the Korean War (1950-1953), and was created by pulling back the respective forces 1.2 miles along each side of the line. [...] Even as North Korea and South Korea marched together in a show of political solidarity at the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, and a newly combined Korean women's hockey team competed as one nation, there remains one unmistakable reminder of the chasm between the two nations. The DMZ was established in 1953 as part of the Korean Armistice Agreement between the United Nations, North Korea, and China to end the Korean War. In essence, it is a line in the sand that extends the entire 160-mile length of the Korean Peninsula, passing just about 50 miles from the Olympic village in Pyeongchang.
Claim: Korean Peninsula is a territory of South Korea (Korean Peninsula, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-04-29): Since the fall of 2023, Kim has been rattling his saber loudly and announced a major U-turn in North Korea’s policy toward South Korea. In January 2024, he told the rubber-stamp Supreme People’s Assembly that the North Korean constitution will be revised to rule out any possibility of peaceful unification with South Korea. As one analyst noted, "declaring the South as a permanent adversary, not as a potential partner for reconciliation, could also be aimed at improving the credibility of Kim’s escalatory nuclear doctrine, which authorizes the military to launch preemptive nuclear attacks against adversaries if the leadership is under threat." In the same month, Kim also proclaimed that not only was South Korea a sworn enemy, but that North Korea also had absolutely no interest in reunifying with the South peacefully. Kim stated, "We can specify in our constitution the issue of completely occupying, subjugating and reclaiming the ROK and annexing it as a part of the territory of our republic in case a war breaks out on the Korean Peninsula."
Claim: Korean Peninsula is a territory of South Korea (Korean Peninsula, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2018-06-12): - The United States and the DPRK will join their efforts to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean Peninsula.
Claim: Korean Peninsula is a territory of South Korea (Korean Peninsula, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2022-02-08): Following World War II, in 1948, the Korea Peninsula was divided between a Soviet-backed government in the north and an American-backed government in the south. War broke out along the 38th parallel on June 25, 1950. On that day, North Korean troops coordinated an attack at several strategic points along the parallel and headed south toward Seoul. [...] (f) In those cases where places of burial are a matter of record and graves are actually found to exist, permit graves registration personnel of the other side to enter, within a definite time limit after this armistice agreement becomes effective, the territory of Korea under their military control, for the purpose of proceeding to such graves to recover and evacuate the bodies of the deceased military personnel of that side, including deceased prisoners of war. The specific procedures and the time limit for the performance of the above task shall be determined by the Military Armistice Commission. The Commanders of the opposing sides shall furnish to the other side all available information pertaining to the places of burial of the deceased military personnel of the other side. [...] Territory under the military control of the Korean People's Army and the Chinese People's Volunteers
Claim: Korean Peninsula is a territory of South Korea (Korean Peninsula, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-02-10): HomeSouth Korea...U.S. Relations With the Republic of Korea hide [...] The United States and Korea’s Joseon Dynasty established diplomatic relations under the 1882 Treaty of Peace, Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, and the first U.S. diplomatic envoy arrived in Korea in 1883. U.S.-Korea relations continued until 1905, when Japan assumed direction over Korean foreign affairs. In 1910, Japan began a 35-year period of colonial rule over Korea. Following Japan’s surrender in 1945, at the end of World War II, the Korean Peninsula was divided at the 38th parallel into two occupation zones, with the United States in the South and the Soviet Union in the North. Initial hopes for a unified, independent Korea were not realized, and in 1948 two separate nations were established — the Republic of Korea (ROK) in the South, and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in the North. In 1949, the United States established diplomatic relations with the Republic of Korea. [...] More information about South Korea is available from the Department of State and other sources, some of which are listed here:
Claim: Korean Peninsula is a territory of South Korea (Korean Peninsula, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-09): The Korean Peninsula was first inhabited as early as the Lower Paleolithic period. Its first kingdom was noted in Chinese records in the early 7th century BCE. Following the unification of the Three Kingdoms of Korea into Silla and Balhae in the late 7th century, Korea was ruled by the Goryeo dynasty (918–1392) and the Joseon dynasty (1392–1897). The succeeding Korean Empire (1897–1910) was annexed in 1910 into the Empire of Japan. In 1945, after the Japanese surrender at the end of World War II, Korea was divided into two zones along the 38th parallel, with the north occupied by the Soviet Union and the south occupied by the United States. In 1948, separate governments were formed in Korea: the socialist and Soviet-aligned Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north, and the capitalist, Western-aligned Republic of Korea in the south. The Korean War began when North Korean forces invaded South Korea in 1950. In 1953, the Korean Armistice Agreement brought about a ceasefire and established a demilitarized zone (DMZ), but no formal peace treaty has ever been signed. Post-war North Korea benefited greatly from economic aid and expertise provided by other Eastern Bloc countries.
Claim: Korean Peninsula is a territory of South Korea (Korean Peninsula, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-04-01): During the Cold War, South and North Korea engaged in a constant and fierce competition for legitimacy and dominance to become the leading state to unify the Korean Peninsula. As each side denied the other’s right to exist as an independent state and pursued unification on its own terms, the Korean Peninsula continuously suffered from conflicts and military clashes. [...] A two-state system would establish a legal and political framework that can help mitigate unification competition, facilitate peaceful coexistence and reduce security risks on the peninsula. Though experts have explored the two-state system in the past, public debates have been sensitive due to criticisms of the two-state system as anti-nationalist, anti-unification and anti-constitution, given the South Korean constitutional provision that claims the whole Korean Peninsula as its territory. However, in today’s environment where the risk of conflict, especially nuclear, is greater and the chances of unification are very slim, the two-state system is worth exploring seriously.
Claim: Korean Peninsula is a territory of South Korea (Korean Peninsula, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2022-05-11): The Korean peninsula remains divided today. North vs. South Korea "If the best minds in the world had set out to find us the worst possible location in the world to fight this damnable war," U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson (1893-1971) once said, "the unanimous choice would have been Korea." The peninsula had landed in America’s lap almost by accident. Since the beginning of the 20th century, Korea had been a part of the Japanese empire, and after World War II it fell to the Americans and the Soviets to decide what should be done with their enemy’s imperial possessions. In August 1945, two young aides at the State Department divided the Korean peninsula in half along the 38th parallel. The Russians occupied the area north of the line and the United States occupied the area to its south. [...] Finally, after more than two years of negotiations, the adversaries signed an armistice on July 27, 1953. The agreement allowed the POWs to stay where they liked; drew a new boundary near the 38th parallel that gave South Korea an extra 1,500 square miles of territory; and created a 2-mile-wide "demilitarized zone" that still exists today.
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of North Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-07): The Military Demarcation Line (MDL), sometimes referred to as the Armistice Line, is the land border or demarcation line between North Korea and South Korea. On either side of the line is the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). The MDL and DMZ were established by the Korean Armistice Agreement.[1] [...] In Korean, the line is called the Hyujeonseon (휴전선), meaning "armistice line."[5] It is also sometimes called the Gunsa Bungye-seon (군사분계선), which literally means "military demarcation line." However, in colloquial usage, the dividing line is more often called the Sampalseon (삼팔선, "38th parallel"), a name likely coined at the end of World War II, when it would have been an accurate description of the North-South border. [...] In 1999, North Korea unilaterally asserted its own "North Korean Military Demarcation Line in the West Sea (Yellow Sea)",[15] also called the "Inter-Korean MDL in the Yellow Sea".[16]
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of North Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (1998-07-20): 38th parallel, popular name given to latitude 38° N that in East Asia roughly demarcates North Korea and South Korea. The line was chosen by U.S. military planners at the Potsdam Conference (July 1945) near the end of World War II as an army boundary, north of which the U.S.S.R. was to accept the surrender of the Japanese forces in Korea and south of which the Americans were to accept the Japanese surrender. The line was intended as a temporary division of the country, but the onset of the Cold War led to the establishment of a separate U.S.-oriented regime in South Korea under Syngman Rhee and a communist regime in North Korea under Kim Il-Sung. After the outbreak of the Korean War between North and South Korea in June 1950, United Nations (UN) forces, which under U.S. Gen. Douglas MacArthur had come to the aid of the South, moved north of the 38th parallel in an attempt to occupy North Korea. With the intervention of Chinese troops in support of the North, the war came to a stalemate roughly along that parallel. The cease-fire line, fixed at the time of the armistice agreement, gave South Korea possession of an eastern mountainous area north of the parallel, which was the major battlefront when the demarcation line was fixed. Likewise, North Korea was given a roughly triangular portion of territory south of the 38th parallel and west of longitude 127° E that includes the city of Kaesŏng.
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of North Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2018-02-09): The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) was established in 1953 as part of the Korean Armistice Agreement between the United Nations, North Korea, and China to end the Korean War. It’s in essence a line in the sand that extends the entire 160 mile width of the Korean peninsula, and at one point is just around 50 miles from the Olympic village in PyeongChang. [...] TIME went to the eastern end of the DMZ, which stops at the Sea of Japan — known in Korea as the East Sea — for a look at some of the most remote portions of the 160 mile demarcation line. Barbed wire fencing marks the entire two-mile-wide DMZ, and on either side of the no-fight zone, mines pepper the barren landscape and watch stations for patrolling soldiers rise along its entire length. [...] Despite such ominous reminders, the DMZ has become, like any must-see destination around the world, a big business. At this eastern end of the DMZ in Goseong, government officials are busy constructing a massive observatory tower scheduled to open this summer, to replace the small building built by the South Korean army in 1983 from which visitors currently view the last section of border fence dividing the two nations. Enterprising entrepreneurs also sell jewelry, as well as liquor, stamps and souvenirs from North Korea.
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of North Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-09-03): The military demarcation line is also known as the ceasefire line, and it refers to the borders set based on where South and North Korea occupied at the time of the signing of the Armistice Agreement of the Korean War on July 27, 1953. Since the military demarcation line was drawn, tragically, free travel between the two Koreas became impossible. A Boundary Line in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) (1969) by The Bureau of Public InformationNational Archives of Korea 2-1. Southern Limit Line and Northern Limit Line [...] A military demarcation line shall be fixed, and both sides shall withdraw 1.2 miles (2 km) from this line so as to establish a demilitarized zone between the opposing forces. A demilitarized zone shall be established as a buffer zone to prevent the occurrence of incidents, which might lead to a resumption of hostilities; as provided in the paragraph.
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of North Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-09): North Korea is taking steps to "completely separate" its territory from the South by cutting off all road and rail links and building fortifications in their place, Kim Jong Un's regime said on Wednesday. [...] North Korea said it would fortify its side of the de facto border with "strong defense structures," without elaborating. A "telephone message" communicating its intentions was sent to U.S. forces "to prevent any misjudgment and accidental conflict over the fortification project," the army said. [...] Seoul said it had yet to detect any construction work by Pyongyang's troops near the Demilitarized Zone, which has been heavily mined by North Korean soldiers in recent months. It said South Korean forces would "overwhelmingly punish" any provocation by the North.
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of North Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-01): Recent News demilitarized zone (DMZ), region on the Korean peninsula that demarcates North Korea from South Korea. It roughly follows latitude 38° N (the 38th parallel), the original demarcation line between North Korea and South Korea at the end of World War II. The demilitarized zone (DMZ) incorporates territory on both sides of the ceasefire line as it existed at the end of the Korean War (1950–53) and was created by pulling back the respective forces 1.2 miles (2 km) along each side of the line. It runs for about 150 miles (240 km) across the peninsula, from the mouth of the Han River on the west coast to a little south of the North Korean town of Kosŏng on the east coast. Located within the DMZ is the "truce village" of Panmunjom, about 5 miles (8 km) east of Kaesŏng, North Korea. It was the site of peace discussions during the Korean War and has since been the location of various conferences over issues involving North and South Korea, their allies, and the United Nations.
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of North Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2023-07-19): What is the DMZ? Map and pictures show the demilitarized zone Travis King crossed into North Korea [...] The DMZ is a 148-mile-long strip that incorporates territory from both North and South Korea. It is about 35 miles from South Korea's capital, Seoul, and runs along the 38th parallel, the line that divides the two countries, along which much of the Korean War occurred. The DMZ was created at the end of the Korean War in 1953, when an armistice was signed. Both countries are still divided and technically at war, but the DMZ ensures the demarcation between them remains peaceful. It is protected by heavily armed troops on both sides.
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of North Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-04): The Korean Demilitarized Zone (Korean: 한반도 비무장 지대) is a heavily militarized strip of land running across the Korean Peninsula near the 38th parallel north. The demilitarized zone (DMZ) is a border barrier that divides the peninsula roughly in half. It was established to serve as a buffer zone between the countries of North Korea and South Korea under the provisions of the Korean Armistice Agreement in 1953, an agreement between North Korea, China, and the United Nations Command. [...] - ^ "A map of the study site presenting the location of Military Demarcation Line(MDL), Southern Limit Line(SLL) and Civilian Control Line(CCL). Civilian Control Zone is located between SLL and CCL. Border Line(BL) is designated within 25km from CCL". Archived from the original on 26 April 2019. Retrieved 15 February 2020 – via Development of Evaluation Indices for Ecological Restoration of Degraded Environments Near DMZ in the Republic of Korea. [...] - Photo of road linking DPRK to Paju, ROK - International Boundary Study No. 22 – May 24, 1963 Korea "Military Demarcation Line" Boundary Archived 3 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine - Interactive map with points of interest along the DMZ - Korean Demilitarized Zone - 1953 introductions - 1953 establishments in Korea - Military installations established in 1953 - Border barriers - Demilitarized zones - International borders - Biosphere reserves of South Korea - Cold War terminology - Korean reunification - Military of North Korea - Military history of Korea - North Korea–South Korea border - North Korea–South Korea relations
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of North Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2019-06-10): The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is a region on the Korean peninsula that demarcates North Korea from South Korea. Roughly following the 38th parallel, the 150-mile-long DMZ incorporates territory on both sides of the cease-fire line as it existed at the end of the Korean War (1950–53). The areas north and south of the demarcation are heavily fortified, though skirmishes between the two sides are rare. Located within the territory is the "truce village" of P’anmunjom, but most of the rest of the land has reverted to nature, making it one of the most pristine undeveloped areas in Asia. The demilitarized zone (DMZ) incorporates territory on both sides of the cease-fire line as it existed at the end of the Korean War (1950–53) and was created by pulling back the respective forces 1.2 miles (2 km) along each side of the line. It runs for about 150 miles (240 km) across the peninsula, from the mouth of the Han River on the west coast to a little south of the North Korean town of Kosong on the east coast. Located within the DMZ is the "truce village" of P’anmunjom, about 5 miles (8 km) east of Kaesong, N.Kor. It was the site of peace discussions during the Korean War and has since been the location of various conferences over issues related to North and South Korea, their allies, and the United Nations.
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of North Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2024-10-09): North Korea’s army said it will take the "substantial military step" of completely cutting off its territory from South Korea on Wednesday, after months of fortifying its heavily armed border. [...] "If North Korea were to establish a new territorial clause through a constitutional amendment and sever its relationship with the South, the internal and external repercussions would be so great," Hong told CNN, suggesting Pyongyang is taking small steps in that direction. [...] The United Nations Command – a multinational military force tasked with securing the heavily fortified DMZ between the two Koreas – confirmed it had been contacted by the North Korean army but said it would not discuss the specific content of messages "out of consideration for the integrity of the hotline."
Claim: Military Demarcation Line is a territory of North Korea (Military Demarcation Line, 2024-10-09)
Evidence (2013-05-08): Sixty years ago North and South Korea ended the "Korean Conflict" by agreeing to the Armistice Agreement for the Restoration of the South Korean State. The agreement—a cease-fire, not a peace treaty—called for the Korean peninsula to be divided by a Military Demarcation Line (MDL) and a buffer, the demilitarized zone (DMZ), whose function would be to "prevent the occurrence of incidents which might lead to a resumption of hostilities." [...] Although it approximates the positions held by communist and U.S.-led U.N. forces for most of the last two-thirds of the war, the MDL is not the same line that had divided Korea before North invaded South in June, 1950. That line was the 38th parallel, whose origins as modern Korea's first intra-national boundary can be traced back to the final hours of World War II, when officials from the U.S. War and State Departments were preparing to negotiate with the Soviet Union over how Japanese-occupied Korea would be administered following Japan's surrender.