On Tuesday, at 5:00 p.m. on the Korean Peninsula, a dozen North Korean ... The DMZ functions as a de facto border next to the so-called 38th parallel, the dividing line of latitude located 38 ...

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 north and western-aligned south, setting the stage for one ...

The south was the peninsula’s rice bowl. The intelligence community, noting Soviet-equipped North Korean troops massed north of the 38th parallel, predicted an attack in June. Few took the ...

Korea had been a single political entity governing the Korean ... peninsula under its own rule. A heavy military presence is still stationed at the border which runs along the 38th parallel.

Tensions are escalating on the Korean Peninsula as the United States ... by newly elected President Dwight D. Eisenhower. The ...

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 ...

The 38th parallel, the latitude that separates ... a map of the divided Korean peninsula. In the summer of 1950, North Korean dictator Kim Il Sung, the current ruler's grandfather, attacked ...

Eighty years ago, the 38th parallel was a temporary arrangement. After the surrender of Imperial Japan, the United States and Soviet Union divvied up a home, a peninsula of strategic importance ...

The 3rd UN General Assembly held in Paris in December of that year passed a resolution that the government established in the south of the 38th parallel was the only legitimate government on the ...

U.S. and Soviet troops were deployed to the south and north of the 38th parallel, respectively to disarm Japanese troops remaining on the Korean Peninsula. Korean-Japanese Treaty of 1876 * The ...

North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung sent troops across the 38th parallel in the summer of 1950 ... Donald Trump, 2017 It was as bad as it has been on the peninsula for many years.