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

Russian troops entered Korea. A hurried decision by the U.S. War Department set the 38th parallel as a line between Russian and U.S. forces taking over from the Japanese. Two Regimes. By late 1948 ...

The war ended where it began, at the 38th parallel ... of the conflict did not describe Korea very well. What looked like a bridge on an old map might be revealed as a shallow ford across a ...

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 ...