Ever since the armistice of 1953, the social, economic and political divide between the two Koreas had become more and more extreme. While the South evolved into a well respected, modern society with a powerful economy, the North isolated itself under the leadership of the self-worshipping, totalitarian Kim regime and became an international pariah with dangerous nuclear ambitions. As the time went by, the two opposing systems remained locked in a smouldering conflict which would endanger the..…