The Recognition of North vs South Korea: Every Year
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- Опубліковано 23 чер 2022
- Both Koreas claim to be the only legitimate Korea, so they compete for diplomatic recognition. (Although many countries recognize both anyway)
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Information Sources:
"DPRK Diplomatic Relations" by Daniel Wertz, JJ Oh, and Kim Insung
Wikipedia
Music used:
"The Complex" by Kevin Macleod
Has anyone idea why North Macedonia was recognizing only North Korea until 2019? Is it solidarity between countries with the “North” word in official or not name of the country?
North Macedonia wasn't called North Macedonia until like 2019 lol It was FYROM (Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia) but then Greece kept complaining because it has a province bordering Macedonia also called Macedonia so to stop confusion FYROM changed its name to N. Macedonia.
Maybe they believed there could only be one "north" country and so when they became north Macedonia they stopped recognizing North Korea.
Honestly, might just be that no one really bothered to rectify it.
@@iCheZee yeah, you’re right. Thank you for addition
Basically South Korea had close ties with Greece due to Greek participantion in Korean War so South Korea never established diplomatic ties with North Macedonia also both countries are small and don't care about each other
Canada in 2001: We’re going to officially establish diplomatic relations with North Korea!
Canada in 2010: Actually nvm lol
I mean its for the best that they dont. Rather not have a repeat of the Cuban debacle.
The Harper Government (The Canadian Government at The Time) Withdraw their Recognition of North Korea over It's Nuclear Test and Canada's Perspective of It's Destabilize Asia in 2010.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 You mean the debacle that didn't affect Canada?
@@MichaelDavis-mk4me We sided with an authoriatarian regime for quick and easy goods. Thats pretty slimy. I'd rather that not repeat for North Korea.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 Ok, so dealing with Cuba is bad, but Saudi Arabia, China and Belarus is fine? Good to know we are stopping the authoritarian Cubans, instead dealing with small authoritarian regimes like CHINA! Until the USA stops trading with China, they cannot blame Canada for trading with dictatorships.
I'm surprised Mauritania was the first to recognize both
Better to recognize countries more than your people
And shortly after, Chad. What a Chad
I think it makes sense it was a non-aligned country in Africa. There would not be anything at stake for them domestically.
@@waltuh11121 By the way the borders of Chad look like the head of chad from the chad vs virgin meme.
@@xyz3524 damn no way
I find it funny that Bhutan reconizes only one Korea, considering they dont reconize either China or Taiwan.
Look up a map of countries which Bhutan recognises. They don't recognise USA, Russia or China. Out of all the African countries, they only recognise Egypt and Morocco. As the other guy said though, they do keep diplomatic relations with other countries via India.
@@stojankovacic1524 Why don't they recognize countries that are completely undisputed?
@@zackbobby5550 extremely isolationist
@@zackbobby5550 "Nah, I don't think there is something like the USA out there" - Bhutan 2022, probably
@@TheKonch You can be isolationist and still acknowledge that there are other places that exist that doesn't explain anything.
I would want to know why Taiwan stopped recognizing South Korea. Was it because South Korea recognized China after the Cold War ended and China opened its markets?
So, Taiwan must recognise both, as the rest of the World did...
But, there must be another reason.
When everyone recognise both, Taiwan recognise no one.
Maybe because of their issues with UN, they are barely recognised, now.
I mean, maybe South Korea stop recognising Taiwn, so they can market with China. So, Taiwan stopped recognising Souh Korea back, in return.
Because South korea recognize PRC instead ROC . And their diplomatic relationship were terminated.
@@Normal_user_coniven communism!
South Korea severed its diplomatic tie with Taiwan after they recongnised mainland China.
Not recognizing a country is so funny to me as a concept. Basically "i pretend i do not see it" but as a guiding principle of foreign policy.
Another fun thing is claims. Taiwan basically claims to control Mongolia. India and Pakistan both claim Kashmir. Like, just wilfully ignoring reality.
The word "north" is literally cursed, look at north cyprus no one recognizes it except 1 country 💀
It's more basically "This country has no place in my foreign affairs, I refrain from interacting with it diplomatically and eocnomically"
Bhutan doesn't recognize either Chinas
That's not what it means. it means not recognising said country as a legitimate state but as a rogue pretender state. obviously the
Would you recognize the Islamic State as sovereign country in 2014? Or would rather see it as the rest of the world: A group of terrorists, who illegally take control in two countries.
taiwan just pulled a bhutan and doesnt think either korea exists, chad move taiwan, chad move.
No, Chad was actually really early in recognizing both ;p
What about botswana? The definition of based. Not being satisfied with being the most developed and less corrupt country in sub saharan africa. They also closed all relations with NK in 2014 for human rights violation and only recognizes SK as the legitmate korea
@@TheMaplestrip r/wooosh
Great video, but i’m too colourblind to tell the difference between “only south” and “north and south”. A bit more contrast in colours would be much appreciated in future!
I'm not colourblind and I agree the colours used are bit to similar to each other.
Agree strongly. I can see how "blue and red makes purple" makes sense, but blue and purple look very similar to me so this video was done poorly.
Using Wikipedia can help
@@loadeddice4696 The video wasn't poorly made, it's just that the contrast and perception of different colours by some people's eyes isn't great, besides no offense directed to them
@@modmaker7617 I have bad news for you... They're very different colors to non-colorblind people
Make a list of “recognition groups” eg take the list of all states and put them into groups if they recognise the same countries. I wonder what countries have the exact same countries they recognise and which ones have unique recogitions
Sounds fun but bloody hell Kosovo, Israel, Korea, Taiwan, Armenia, and Saharawi checking every time sounds like a pain
I'll give you one spoiler though Russia and Turkey would each have their very own category if we only make the list include UN members (when it comes to recognition between unrecognized that's even more of a clusterf*)
@Kosh giup I literally named the countries, how can that be overexaguration? Or do you mean those recognized by countries not in the UN? Cause transnistria and artaskh are real even without mentioning micronations like Parva Domus or the Principality of Sealand (although as far as I'm currently aware none of the micronations have any recognition. Then again I might just be missing something)
Me as a South Korean : France is a real homie since the start of time they recognized us.
france bro💀💀💀
What about the US bro 💀
I’m surprised my own country hasn’t recognised north korea yet, everyone in France knows about the 2 koreas we also study about it. So i would like to know what recognition really means.
Typically, the official definition of recognition means "having diplomatic relations with a country" so when france is shown blue on this map, it means they only have diplomatic relations with south korea.
@@capitalliz7635 makes sense but why is the united states blue even if donald trump has made a sort of diplomatic move going there ?
The United States and Japan, along with South Korea, have agreed to recognize only South Korea's government on the Korean Peninsula. Both South Korea, Japan and the United States have political exchanges with the North Korean regime, but they do not recognize the legitimacy of the North Korean government.
@@angelfco5089 if you recognize a country, you validate its claim over territory that it occupies. and since South Korea considers North Korea a rebellious province, its allies most likely won't recognize it.
Recognizing a state means recognition of its sovereignty (laws, territory, etc.)
You can still have diplomatic relations with non-state actors, many countries do. And everyone knows and acknowledge the existence of non-state actors. Sovereignty is the key part. The rights of a country. Since US don't recognize North Korea for example, technically South Korea invading the North would not be considered a invasion as NK is not a country but a rogue province(s). Same thing PRC is saying about ROC. State owned TV or nationalists all call Taiwan a province. Just listen for "Taiwan sheng" and they'll criticize foreign involvement in what they call "domestic affairs" because they don't recognize the sovereignty of Taiwan.
The silly thing is that its just a political lingo for not having any real diplomatic relations, trade, or cooperation. Sometimes, Taiwan is an exception... But anyways, Russia dismissed Ukraine's sovereignty, questioning its existence as part of is rhetoric. But no one really cares (except for their allies) and sanction the hell out of Russia anyways. The thing is sovereignty can't be decided by a single country, it is decided by international consensus. It is why Russia gets sanctioned, Taiwan has a strong economy and gets military support. And US leaders still meet with North Korea.
Korea: Exists
Taiwan:
I never met this man in my life.
Countries that didn’t recognize either be like: What is a Korea?
No, they probably didn’t recognize either regime as the sole, legitimate government of Korea.
They still think it's japanese territory lol
The problem was which side is rightful government of whole Korean peninsula. And many countries couldn't choose it easily, especially for 3rd world countries.
one government, one country in Korean peninsula. That was the rule.
What do you mean Korea? It is an ocean!
~Taiwan and Kosovo (probably)
@@seoul_louis9584 Finland has never been 3rd world
Hey emperortigerstar, you should make a video on the Jungle Republic/Nation or the rebellion. It was a short lived state based in Loreto, Peru, from 1899-1900. Quite interesting actually.
The music used for these random vids is insanely awesome
Virgin recognise 2 koreas Vs
Brad recognise 1 korea Vs
Chad recognise no korea
Sadly that meme doesn't work on the country Chad as barring two-three years they always recognized SK, most of the time both.
@@whohan779 Kosovo real chad
There is no force in the world that can block the powerful march of our army and people, who are holding high the banner of the suns of great Comrade Kim Il Sung and great Comrade Kim Jong Il and continuing to advance under the leadership of the party and with strong faith in sure victory.
Our cause is just, and the might of Korea that is united with truth is infinite. There can be neither today without yesterday nor tomorrow without today.
If you are a westerner, quit LARPing. If you are Korean, take the drugs down a notch.
@@piebit101 I believe N Korea has provided assistance to Palestine in the past, so I imagine that they recognize palestine or both states
-is that the reason your grandfather blew up Aung San's Mausoleum?-
Yes Leader
@@piebit101 Never.
Kind of interesting that the Philippines only recognized North korea with the South at 2000 (I'm pretty young that time) - I remember reading maps and atlases having it there already.
It's crazy how much the Cold War impacted this. As soon as the USSR collapsed in 1991, a food portion of the world instantly flips from recognizing North Korea to recognizing both.
Edit: I didn't mean to put food portion lol, it's supposed to be good.
The driving force wasn't the USSR collapse - because the big switch you see there is in 1990 - but rather the whole iron curtain crumbling - the fall of the Berlin Wall, Yugoslavia, revolutions in several countries, all happened before USSR within a short period between 1989 and 1991.
Well the countries formerly recognising only south Korea now recognise both for example Greece recognises both since 2001
Great job on the insanely accurate map.
I'm actually interester to know what happened for the countries that once recognized both of them (i.e. Canada or Argentina) to stop recognizing North Korea after a certain point.
Probably them starting to test nuclear weapons... And threatening to attack the West.
Argentina was in a military anti communist government between 1976-1983, maybe thats the reason, don't know bout' Canada
Canada had a conservative prime minister who really didn't like Kim Jong il
@@99ZondaS We switched after Harper though.
Edit: Nevermind
A military coup brought to you by the kind fellows at the CIA
DPRK in 1975: Thanks for recognizing me!
Portugal: Hey no problem! With our new socialist-led government, we'll be best friends forever
DPRK: Definitely!
Portugal in 2017: *It was nice knowing you!*
This is why US coups are good
@@KolchaksGhost Cringe username
@@randomuser3481 says the red 🤡
@@KolchaksGhost Anti-communists: "The evil commies want to make a dictatorship and take our freedom!"
Also anti-communists: *Worships dictators and praises dictatorships*
@@randomuser3481 🤓
1:04 Ouch, you included the Aral Sea shrinking :(
Wow, you even included the Aral see disappearing
the two leaders at the start of the video were trying to do a fusion in dragonball style
재밌는 영상이네.
I’m very surprised that my country Syria still only recognize the north
The Syrian government buys weapons from North Korea, they don't want to bite the hand that feeds them.
Videos are amazing as always but my guy still hasn’t improved on decor
Everyone talking about Canada no longer recognizing North korea in 2010 but nobody talking about Botswana not regocnizing North Korea in 2014
you kept this map so accurate you even modelled the aral sea receding, based
canada just forgot about north korea's existence lmao
Weird how Apartheid South Africa went from recognizing SK to recognizing neither so many times
What I can't believe is that the first country to recognize south of Korea was the Republic of China，which it now is Taiwan. It’s amazing.
the government of South Korea is founded in China, but North Korea's government is also came into North Korea from China
@@frankfleming1103 The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea and the Government of the Republic of Korea are different governments. Provisional Government was officially dissolved in 1948.
@@busanchamchi8952 South Korea’s constitution states that Republic of Korea starts from the Provisional government of Korea.
Because Provisional government of Korea and Republic of China fought against Japan together. ROC and ROK is blood alliance fought against Japanese imperialism. South Korea only recognized Republic of China until 1992.
Mauritania: "I'm about to start a whole new trend..."
Canada: I recognize both koreas
Canada: sorry , I mean south , sorry again
Taiwan and Kosovo: wdym I don’t know what they are
I question the foreign policy of countries who do not recognize either country.
Do they just say that 75 million people do not exist? The Korean Peninsula is a defining part of Asia, so what do their official maps say? What country do they think claims the peninsula? I have many more questions but that's only a taste of them.
I think its like Taiwan cases tho. They didnt Recognize Taiwan as States in term of diplomatic. However some of them still have some relationship with Taiwan outside diplomatic for example like Economic Partnership and Cultural Trade.
I think you and many others misunderstand what the official recognition actually means. Nobody denies that these places exists, that there are people living there or that they have governments. The question is who is the legitimate government of Korea. Both North and South Korea officially state that Korea is a single country with a single legitimate government, they just disagree on who that legitimate government is. Countries who recognize only South or North Korea are stating who they believe is the legitimate government, while countries who recognize both are stating they believe Korea is and should remain two separate countries and both governments are legitimate. Countries that recognize neither just had no opinion on the matter, with the exception of Taiwan who revoked their recognition of South Korea because South Korea revoked their recognition of Taiwan (that's another whole can of worms).
How can America not recognize North Korea? The partition was literally their idea
It's called planing on the long run.
Not exactly. It was a compromise between the US and the USSR that neither side was happy with. Obviously the U.S recognizes that North Korea exists, they just don't recognize it as the legitimate government government of Korea. They officially agree with the South Korean position that Korea is one country and the South Korean government is legitimate while the North Korean one are essentially rebels. Conversely, North Korea and it's supporters also believe Korea is one country but that it is the North Korean government that is legitimate.
Recognizing both is essentially making an official statement that Korea not one country, but two, and both governments are the legitimate governments of the their own territory while having no claim to the other's.
@@showmemoviesnow obviously it was a compromise but it was still proposed by the US. It was only meant to be short term (a decade I think) so that the USSR and US could work on a solution but they couldn't come up with one.
Anyone else notice how the Canaries were the same the whole video
Omg the music from coldpath
I just now found out that my home country of Estonia only recognizes South Korea. I always thought that we recognized both.
Tervist
Tere, Koit.
What happened to Portugal in 2017?
I think the reason there is no One Korea policy is because unlike China, the two claimants are roughly equal in power. The ROK has economic might and influence, while the DPRK has martial and nuclear power.
South Korea is much more powerful except for the nuclear might which is proscribed because of the US.
@@user-nc5yc9es6j even if that is the case, the power gap is still nothing compared to the two claimants of China.
Bruh North Korea is nothing compared to South Korea in terms of power. South Korea is a developed nation with a large population and a global economy has some globally known super corporations like samsung and kia. It has a army that can easily wipe out the pathetic outdated northern army if it wasn't for the Nukes. They aren't equal in power at all, its like comparing Italy to Burundi.
@@Max-is4qu Yeah. Makes you wonder if they ever will attempt an invasion of South Korea, because they very well might never approach being somewhat prepared for it.
@@Max-is4qu - Correct, but South Korea is completely subservient and dependent on America, if America (The house of cards) falls, so do their allies fall, even Europe will not recover.
Do east vs. west germany next
Thank you Estonia from Korea
Canary islands are wrong from 1:03 till the end of the video
Can anyone explain what the small blue part in the North-east of Myanmar/Burma at 0:12 to 0:24 represents?
@Sticklandian Army Thank you! I learnt about something new today, after looking it up it seems to be either that or the KMT forces that occupied the area for a time after the Chinese civil war.
I'm interested in how countries only recognise one of these. Do they simply believe North or South Korea doesn't exist? Do they believe they are actually one country and only one of the governments is legitimate? How does it work?
They believe that the Democratic Republic of Korea is illegitimate (or vise-Versa) and as such, do not maintain diplomatic relations with them. They don’t just think that one of the Korea’s doesn’t exists
Basically the latter. One government is legitimate, the other is a pretender state and it's very exsistence should be shunned, which doesn't mean lack of diplomatic relations though. Taiwan is a good example
@@DehydratedDarkness Isn't it similar to Donetsk PR, where the country thinks, that there is only one contry and that the others are rebels or something similar?
I like the detail where the Aral Sea is slowly dying every year.
0:20 Turkey recognizes South Korea in 1950 and same year joining war and help South Korea
The problem was which side is rightful government of Korea. And many countries couldn't choose it easily, especially for 3rd world countries.
one government, one country, one Korea. That was the rule.
South Korean government is the only righteous government in Korean peninsula recognised by UN.
Exactly. Never should've been divided in the first place, was nothing but an excuse for a Cold War proxy fight.
@@ajstevens1652 as a chinese, i feel for korea. I hope korea brothers will stop getting divided by the evil uncle sam. all the best to chairman kim in his adventure to liberate south korea.
Recognition is not about rightful, more about who they want to deal with. Say a country does not recognize another means they don't want to do anything diplomatically with said country.
@@sww3679 the USSR and the PRC are as responsible as the US is for the division of Korea
Japan until 1965: *Wait, what do you mean that's not part of Japan?*
Japan in recent times: why are there nukes flying near us from this non-claimed uncontrolled wasteland in the North of our former colony?
Please do video on Tibetan Empire!
Please make the colors more different because it is hard for me as a colorblind person to see the difference
Looks like Syria is having an intimate relationship with north korea
Why did Canada withdraw it's recognition of DPRK? Is it for a diplomatic purpose or out of spite?
Because North Korea is bad
The Harper Government (The Canadian Government at The Time) Withdraw their Recognition of North Korea over It's Nuclear Test and Canada's Perspective of It's Destabilize Asia in 2010.
Nice
So ridiculous....lol great video
there SHOULD only be one
Malaysia use to be one of two country that get free visa to north korea and there some north korean working here in malaysia , but now we no longer recognise north korea after they do some dirty work in our country.
Yea tru, made our country an assasination area
In Germany you basically can't get a visa to North Korea through any governmental ways. You can however get one through a political party that regularly fails to get even 0.1% in local elections (in which small parties are much more competitive compared to state or federal election) of the city where they were founded
North Korean people come here to study and for military training ,btw what they did wrong?
True. They give us so much crap. The Kim Jong Nam killing was the cherry on top, but we still gave them a chance.
Do you have this map in png or jpg?
Isn’t it more accurate to call this diplomatic relations rather than recognition? North Korea is a UN member and I’m fairly certain it’s recognised by everyone except South Korea.
countries still maintain their own list of other countries they officially recognize through their individual state departments as they were doing long before the UN was founded. so it doesn’t have to coincide with UN membership as the UN is not the ultimate authority on the matter for every country
@Latter Canada had diplomatic relations with North Korea until 2010, I don't think it ever revoked its recognition of the country though.
I believe France and Japan don't recognize North Korea, too.
UN membership requires only two thirds approval, not unanimity. It became a full member in 1991.
Japan also doesn't recognize North korea and I think France and Taiwan don't recognize too
I think you should do the People’s Republic of China next.
He already make video about ROC/PRC recognition.
Ah yes, it is nice to see that Spain recognizes both but still the Canary Islands recognize only Sout Korea XD
A bit suprised at Estonia
1:11 So on 2010, Canada decided that North Korea no longer exists?
they used the maple syrup gauntlet to erase 50% of korea
The Canadian Government Withdraw their Recognition of North Korea over It's Nuclear Test.
It's interesting that Taiwan recognizes neither one.
I believe that is because Taiwan must not do anything regarding recognizing other countries that the PRC doesnt agree with, because then they will have even more pretext that its a "rebelious province"
I remember reading something about how because of that, Taiwan still has "border disputes, claimed territory" with countries in Continental Asia when the ROC still controlled the mainland, because it cant decide those no longer happen
That is because Taiwan doesn't have enough recognition itself to enter the recognition game
Just looked it up. Apparently Taiwan terminated their relations with South Korea when they recognized the PRC instead of the ROC.
Why are there 2 recognized Koreas and One China?
what does "recognize" mean in this video?
According to Wikipedia, the only UN member that currently does not recognize South Korea is North Korea, while several nations, including the USA, do not recognize North Korea. I see on the map at the end that Syria and Cuba do not recognize South Korea, but it conflicts with Wikipedia's statement, but maybe Wiki is wrong?
Wiki is wrong, Cuba and Syria do not recognize us.
@@ignisilluminati >us
Did the Internet finally reach you guys?
1. Wikipedia has long been used to push certain political agenda. It's becoming more so of an issue in latter years. Funny thing is, the content for exactly one topic (say Russia) can widely different between languages.
Not trying to blame anyone, I'm just saying that sometimes some facts can be pushed away, so some degree of misinfo is to be expected (especially with sensitive topics like this one)
2. There still might be some place for ambiguity. Say like Cuba may recognize S. Korea as a country but not have any diplomatic relations with them.
Just giving my 2 cents about this.
@@ignisilluminati I guess that is the case
@@mYnAME-ww9ivI have seen cases where even Wikipedia is biased.
1:28 Taiwan:there is no korea
I get Cuba, but why Syria is the only other country recognizing only N.K.?
Two words: Ba'ath Party
Nice video! A minor nitpick that I have would be to rearrange, "harmonize" the legend a bit :
Put the North Korean Flag "north" and the South Korean "south", as well as putting the corresponding color keys in rows in front of the corresponding flags instead of in columns.
Agreed ! I had to read the legend slowly twice, not really the best set-up.
How is it 2022 and people dont recognize both
Thumbs up to show your love for the Supreme Comrade!🇰🇵
2022 Both countries are different Even in every cultural aspect
Imagine if they had one Korea principle.
I love your attention to details like the unification of Germany and independence of South Sudan.
But still, I'm surprised that many countries don't recognize north Korea to this day even though their leaders often have meeting with the Kim family.
En 2010, Canadá supo que todo este tiempo había reconocido un país que no existe.
Cold war: **ends**
Russia and China: How about we all recognize both Koreas now?
America: *Yeah, no.*
Surely the U.S. recognises North Korea considering the sheer amount of diplomatic talks they have held with them?
USA to NK in 2022: idk you but we’ll talk
We don't officially recognize Taiwan or North Korea as anything but rogue provinces of the other claimants. But we still talk to both as such officially (in Taiwan's case as rightfully rebellious)
@@jeremiahblake3949 thanks that honestly simplifies the whole thing. Have a great day!
It's "We don't recognize as you as the legitimate ruler/owner of this land", rather than "We don't recognize that you exist, and we'll pretend you're not real"
@@Absolute_Zero7 This is very untrue
Fozzie: Which Korea does the light blue country between Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan recognise, and why is it shrinking?
Kermit: That’s the Aral Sea.
The gigachad taiwan suddenly decided to recognise neither of the two countries as of 1992.
Happy birthday 🎉🎈🎂🎊🎁
What a chad. Recognizing both North and South Korea.
When the dark red part of the map gets bigger:
When will people learn that recognition =/= having diplomatic relations?
Dam I would thought that at least trump would recognize NK
Wholesome how the UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand all made their decision to recognize both simultaneously… until Canada switched again of course
But which one is Best Korea?
Kimmyland is Best Korea and Kpopstan is Worst Korea.
west korea
East Korea
DPR OF KOREA
@@KeleidoOmni nah i'd have to say the best korea is actually the demilitarized zone
dude im from Argentina and we recognize both koreas
But diplomatic relations with North Korea are frozen
Common Estonian W
Trump in 2018: "North Korea? What is that?" (But still meets Kim)
tigerstar are you really sure that Afghanistan 1978-1992 recognized south korea?
One country, One government, One Korea
I only wonder how the world would change when both Koreas Unite!!
if*
🤓
@@thebelgfrommt um actually
Oh no, when in east block, my country supported north and now both.... :(
I find it so funny when countries stop recognizing each other, like „Sorry I was wrong you don‘t exist“
The first pic was the most cursed pic ever
I thought it was only France and Japan that recognized South Korea exclusively