Editor’s note: The following article is an opinion piece by Tomasz Wierzbowski, an adjunct professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Views expressed in opinion articles are exclusively the author’s own and do not represent those of NK News.

For nearly 80 years, the Korean Peninsula has been divided, a consequence of the geopolitical aftermath of World War II.

And yet, even after all this time, both North and South Korea continue to assert their right to sovereignty over the entire peninsula and pay lip service to the shared ideology of national unification.

ROK President Yoon Suk-yeol has withdrawn from