After the defeat of Japan in 1945, the 38th parallel was chosen to divide the Korean peninsula into two US and Soviet occupied zones. The line dividing North and South Korea is still often referred to as the 38th parallel, but the border is no longer parallel to the equator and rather runs diagonally across the peninsula.
Korea was split at the 38th parallel and North Korea was occupied by Russia and South Korea was occupied by the U.S.
North and South Korea along the 38th parallel.
The US controlled the southern part of Korea while the norther part was controlled by the Soviet Union. The country split on the 38th parallel and the north is communist the south is non communist.
It was Japan.
the 38th parallel divided the communist Northern part of Korea and the capitalist Southern part of Korea.
38th parallel
On the 10th of August 1945.
Both the United States and Russia made the decision to divide Korea at the 38th parallel.
The 38th parallel was the border between North and South Korea, and still is.
The Allies and Russia divided Korea at the 38 th parallel.
For purposes of accepting the Japanese surrender and providing postwar security in Korea and to temporarily divide Korea into northern and sourthern parts.
The USSR and the US
The USSR and the US
Korea is divided into communist North Korea and republican South Korea at the 38th parallel. . Korea is divided in communist North Korea and republican South Korea at the 38th parallel. (The Billy Joel song "Leningrad" contains the line, "Stop 'em at the 38th parallel" in reference to the Cold War and specifically the Korean War.)
In 1945 the Soviet Union and the United States agreed to divide Korea in two zones at the 38th parallel. The plan was to hold elections after World War II to reunify Korea.
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