Austin Smith and Michael Muir discuss how Korea, historically a unified peninsula, was divided in 1945 after Japan's 35-year ...

I just got out by the skin of my teeth." Following World War Two, Korea, which had been under Japan's control, was split in two along the 38th parallel. North Korea became a Soviet-backed ...

At the start of the Second World War, Korea was unified ... the USSR and China agreed to split Korea in half on the 38th parallel. The north would be controlled by the communist countries ...

In June 1950, with the support of China and the Soviet Union, North Korea launched an attack on South Korea across the 38th parallel.