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Events on Thursday 9 September 1948 1
1948Democratic People's Republic of Korea establishedKim Il Sung proclaims a communist state in northern KoreaOn September 9, 1948, Kim Il Sung proclaimed the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the Soviet-occupied northern half of the Korean peninsula. The declaration came weeks after the establishment of a rival government in the south, formalizing the division of Korea. The two Korean states would go to war less than two years later.