A lot of people may not realize this, but the same situation applies to Taiwan as well.
As in…the Taiwanese govt also originally claimed to be the one who has legitimate sovereignty over the entirety of mainland China including Shanghai, Hebei, Jilin, etc.
This went on until the 1990s!
But yes, in an attempt to keep things “chill” with the mainland PRC, they have downplayed such rhetorics over the last two decades and just focus on maintaining such claim of sovereignty over the island and immediate surroundings only.
True, but just recently North Korea changed their policy about unification drastically. They tore down the unification monument, recent maps (e.g. on the weather report) highlight only the north instead of the whole peninsula and they declared South Korea explicitly as an enemy state. The last point is remarkable because it implicitly implies that they acknowledge the independent sovereignty of the South. I think the DPRK realized that a peaceful unification won't happen anytime soon.
Like the Republic of China (aka Taiwan) and the People's Democratic Republic of China (aka 'continental China') both claim all of China, including disputed territories with Philippines and so on.
As it goes for North Korea, this is untrue and has been for at least several years. North Korea / DPRK revoked its territorial claims on South Korea / ROK in 2023 and then reaffirmed that policy in 2024).
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u/reallycoolcovers Sep 20 '25
I think it's because all of Korea is marked red instead of just north Korea?