Cika wannan jumla: Tarayyar Kudancin Arabiya da Kudancin Arabiya sun haɗu don zama Jamhuriyar Jama'ar Kudancin Yemen a ranar 30 ga Nuwamba 1967 kuma daga baya ya canza sunansa zuwa Jamhuriyar Jama'ar Demokradiyyar Yemen. Ya zama Marxist-Leninist mai jam'iyyar daya a 1969 kuma Cuba, Jamus ta Gabas da Tarayyar Soviet sun goyi bayansa. Ita ce kawai jihar kwaminisanci da za a kafa a duniyar Larabawa. Duk da kokarin da ta yi na kawo kwanciyar hankali a yankin, ta shiga cikin wani rikici na siyasa.
Yaƙin basasa na ɗan gajeren lokaci a 1986. Tare da rugujewar kwaminisanci, Yemen ta Kudu ta haɗu da Jamhuriyar Larabawa ta Yemen, wanda aka fi sani da " Arewacin Yemen, " a ranar 22 ga Mayu 1990 don kafa Jamhuriyar Yemen ta yanzu. Bayan shekaru uku, duk da haka, rikicin siyasa ya tashi tsakanin YSP na Kudu da GPC na Arewa da jam'iyyun Islah bayan zaben 'yan majalisa a 1993. Kudancin Yemen ya ayyana rabuwa da Arewacin Yemen a 1994; sabuwar jihar mai neman rabuwa da ba a san ta ba, Jamhuriyar Demokradiyyar Yemen, ta ƙare tare da rushewa da Arewacin Yemen da ke mamaye Kudancin Yemen bayan yakin basasa na 1994. Wani yunƙuri na sake dawo da Yemen ta Kudu, a matsayin ƙasa kawai, ba a matsayin jihar gurguzu ba, tare da Majalisar Canjin Kudancin a matsayin sabuwar gwamnatin ta, ta fara ne a cikin 2017 kuma ta ci gaba tun daga lokacin.