Understanding of North-South Relations.(2)

At the end of World-War 2, leaders from the US, Britain, and China came to Cairo, Egypt and made decisions about postwar Asia. After the war, foreign ministers from the US, Britain, and the Soviet Union took part in the Moscow Conference of Foreign Ministers and came up with establishing a provisional government in Korea and implemented a five-year trusteeship by four countries----the US, Britain, China, and the Soviet Union. Before the end of World War 2, the Americans and Soviet had originally agreed on the establishment of an independent government for the entire Korean peninsula through the Cairo Declaration and the Potsdam Declaration.

Yet once the war actually ceased, a Cold War began between the US and the Soviet Union due to ideological conflicts and different views about how to deal with Europe and Asia after the war. Thus, they focused on nation-building and exerting their influence rather than giving aid to establish an independent government. The US, representing capitalism, and the Soviet Union, representing communism, occupied Korea as their ideological differences became more serious on the peninsula.