The 38th parallel in Korea has become almost as famous as another imaginary line, the equator. The political history of the 38th: Origin. Three days before Japan’s surrender, Russian troops ...

North Korea has mined border crossings on its side of the demilitarized zone, the South's military said this week, in another ...

The Soviet Union occupied Korean territory north of the 38th parallel ... the conflict did not describe Korea very well. What looked like a bridge on an old map might be revealed as a shallow ...

In August 1945, at the end of World War II, Russia and the United States divided the Korean peninsula at the 38th parallel into communist ... After North Korea invaded the south on June 25 ...