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

the USSR and China agreed to split Korea in half on the 38th parallel. The north would be controlled by the communist countries, China and the USSR, the south by the US. This was supposed to be ...

North Korea has mined ... Peninsula roughly in half along the 38th Parallel north. The 2.5-mile wide, 160-mile long buffer zone was established north and south of the demarcation line under ...

These volunteers helped to push the UN forces back across the 38th parallel. The USSR was ... The relationship between North and South Korea was bitter and tense. The war was disastrous for ...

6/9/1951, Library of Congress The war broke out on June 25, 1950 when North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel, invading South Korea. North Korean leader Kim Il-sung launched the attack once ...