The Korean Empire lasted only thirteen years, yet it was a time of great transformation for this state and the whole region with lasting consequences in the next century… With Nuri Kim ...

The unified Korean Empire existed from 1897 to 1910, after which it was annexed by Japan. Following Japan’s defeat in World War II, the Korean Peninsula was divided.

May 29, 2017: Ever since the North Korean economic collapse in the 1990s (and a famine that killed over five percent of the population) China has been trying to avoid a collapse of the North Korean ...