The Republic of Korea government was inaugurated south of the 38th parallel after UN-supervised elections in the South. Korea had been under Japanese colonial rule until 1945; the postwar division was...
North Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel and attacked South Korea. The war grew from Korea’s division after Japanese colonial rule and involved Soviet support for the North, U.S.-led UN forces,...
North Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel and attacked the Republic of Korea. The war followed the division of a peninsula liberated from Japanese colonial rule into rival governments under...
North Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel, beginning a war on a peninsula divided by U.S. and Soviet occupation after Japan’s defeat. Koreans had not chosen the division, and the war drew in...
