The surrender of Japan at the end of World War II handed Korea its independence, but the peninsula was immediately divided into ideologically opposed regimes in North and South Korea.
第二次世界大戦の日本の降伏は、朝鮮に独立を手渡したが、半島はすぐにイデオロギー的に反対の北朝鮮と韓国に分割された。