The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was proclaimed north of the 38th parallel after the establishment of a rival government in the South. The division followed the end of Japanese colonial...
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...
