With this book, former North Korea lead foreign services officer in the U.S. embassy in Seoul, Patrick McEachern, unpacks the contentious and tangled romantic relationship between the Koreas in an approachable question-and-answer format. While North Korea can be well-known for its militarism and nuclear system, South Korea is most beneficial known because of its economic magic, familiar to customers as the maker of Samsung smartphones, Hyundai vehicles, and even K-pop music and K-beauty. Why possess the two Koreas developed politically and financially in such radically different ways? What exactly are the origins of the divided Korean Peninsula? Who guidelines both Koreas? How have three generations of the authoritarian Kim dictatorship shaped North Korea? What is the annals of North-South relations? Why does the North Korean federal government develop nuclear weaponry? How do forces such as Japan, China, and Russia fit into the mix? What is it truly like to reside in North and South Korea? This publication tackles these broad topics and many more to explain what everyone needs to find out about South and North Korea.