North Korea has mined border crossings on its side of the demilitarized zone, the South's military said this week, in another sign of increasing tensions between the old Cold War foes. South Korea's ...

The maps available at the beginning of the conflict did not describe Korea ... waR—the nuclear one—had entered the strategic conversation as soon as North Korean troops crossed the 38th ...

SEOUL, Korea, June 25, 1950 (UP ... invading troops to cease hostilities and to withdraw to the 38th Parallel. Tank-led North Korean Communist armies drove to within four miles of this capital ...

Korea had been a single political entity governing the Korean Peninsula up until the end of World War II, when the Soviet ... border which runs along the 38th parallel.

This past June 25, 1950 tens of thousands of North Korean soldiers stormed across the 38th parallel, the line on a map ... entire war, some 26,000 Canadians saw active service in Korea.

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 ...

Neither leader in Korea had been elected nor ... to push the UN forces back across the 38th parallel. The USSR was afraid of provoking a World War and therefore helped the North Koreans and ...