South Korea

==== North Korea ====
{{Main|North Korea–South Korea relations}}
[[File:Panmunjeom DMZ.png|thumb|left|The [[Joint Security Area]]]]
Both North and South Korea claim complete sovereignty over the entire peninsula and outlying islands.<ref>{{cite news |date=21 March 2018 |title=Can North Korea get South to join dispute with Japan over two islands in Asia? |work=Newsweek |url=http://www.newsweek.com/can-north-korea-get-south-join-dispute-japan-over-two-islands-asia-815076 |access-date=9 March 2018 |archive-date=23 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623005232/http://www.newsweek.com/can-north-korea-get-south-join-dispute-japan-over-two-islands-asia-815076 |url-status=live }}</ref> Despite mutual animosity, reconciliation efforts have continued since the initial separation between North and South Korea. Political figures such as [[Kim Koo]] worked to reconcile the two governments even after the Korean War.<ref>[http://modernkoreanhistory.weebly.com/ modern Korean history – Home] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626135653/https://modernkoreanhistory.weebly.com/ |date=26 June 2018 }}. Modernkoreanhistory.weebly.com. Retrieved 17 April 2015.</ref> With longstanding animosity following the Korean War from 1950 to 1953, North Korea and South Korea signed an agreement to pursue peace.<ref name="Reuters-2007">{{cite news |date=4 October 2007 |title=North, South Korea pledge peace, prosperity |work=Reuters |url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKSEO16392220071004 |access-date=17 February 2009 |archive-date=23 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071223105941/http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKSEO16392220071004 |url-status=live }}</ref> On 4 October 2007, [[Roh Moo-Hyun]] and North Korean leader [[Kim Jong-il]] signed an eight-point agreement on issues of permanent peace, high-level talks, economic cooperation, renewal of train services, highway and air travel, and a joint Olympic cheering squad.<ref name="Reuters-2007" />

[[File:2018 inter-Korean summit 01.jpg|thumb|North Korean leader [[Kim Jong-un]] and South Korean President [[Moon Jae-in]] shake hands inside the [[Inter-Korean Peace House|Peace House]].]]

Despite the Sunshine Policy and efforts at reconciliation, the progress was complicated by [[List of North Korean missile tests|North Korean missile tests]] in [[1993 North Korean missile test|1993]], [[1998 North Korean missile test|1998]], [[2006 North Korean nuclear test|2006]], [[2009 North Korean nuclear test|2009]], and [[2013 North Korean missile tests|2013]]. By early 2009, relationships between North and South Korea were very tense; North Korea had been reported to have deployed missiles,<ref>{{cite news |date=23 February 2009 |title=North Korea deploying more missiles |work=[[BBC News]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7905361.stm |access-date=9 March 2009 |archive-date=24 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100824214110/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7905361.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> ended its former agreements with South Korea,<ref>{{cite news |date=30 January 2009 |title=North Korea tears up agreements |work=[[BBC News]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7859671.stm |access-date=8 March 2009 |archive-date=6 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090306071916/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7859671.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> and threatened South Korea and the United States not to interfere with a satellite launch it had planned.<ref>{{cite news |date=3 March 2009 |title=North Korea warning over satellite |work=[[BBC News]] |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7931670.stm |access-date=8 March 2009 |archive-date=9 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090309171011/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7931670.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> North and South Korea are still technically at war (having never signed a peace treaty after the Korean War) and share the world's most heavily fortified border.<ref name="border">{{cite news |date=4 June 2004 |title=Koreas agree to military hotline |work=CNN |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/06/03/koreas.agree/index.html |access-date=18 February 2010 |archive-date=30 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091130235815/http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/asiapcf/06/03/koreas.agree/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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