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North Korea crossed the 38th parallel during the Korean War in 1950 to invade and unify South Korea under a communist regime. The invasion sparked a global conflict as the United Nations intervened to support South Korea, leading to a three-year war that ended in an armistice.
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Who cross the 38th parallel first?
North Korea launched an attack on its neighbor, South Korea, by crossing the 38th parallel in June 1950. This attack resulted in the Korean War.
What divided line North Korean and south Korean?
The 38th Parallel
What continents does the 38th parallel cross?
38th Parallel North: North America, Europe, and Asia. 38th Parallel South: South America and Australia.
Where is division of north Korea and south Korea?
The 38th Parallel. Rather close to the South Korean city of Janggok
The 38th parallel is associated with what war?
The Korean War. The 38th parallel is also associated with World War 2. At the Potsdam Conference the US and the Soviet Union agreed that each would invade the Korean Peninsula to defeat the Japanese there. The Soviet Union was to attack from the North and the US from the south. They would both stop at the 38th parallel.
What is the significance of the 38 parallel?
The 38th parallel was the boundary between the northern and southern halves of the Korean peninsula between World War 2 and the Korean War. After the Korean War the border between North Korea and South Korea did not change much and therefore is still sometimes referred to as the 38th parallel, though it is not along the actual 38th parallel north as it used to be.
Where is the dividing line after the Korean war?
It is the "DMZ", or de-militarized zone, is the heavily guarded border that separates North and South Korea.The 38th parallel is the line that separates North and South korea.
Who fought over the 38th parallel?
The Korean War was fought over the 38th parallel in order to define the North and South Korean border. The North and the South did this where is now the famous Korean War peninsula. This is the same border nowadays that was claimed back then.
Which two countries are separated by the 48th parallel?
South Korea and North Korea are separated by the 38th parallel, not the 48th parallel. The 38th parallel divides the Korean Peninsula roughly in half.
Approximately where was the border set between North Korea and South Korea at the time of the cease-fire in the Korean War?
38th parallelThe Border at the begging of the war was commonly known as the 38th Parallel.
What was the border between north and South Korea at the beginning of the Korean war?
38th parallel of latitude
Nation divided at the 38th parallel of latitude?
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.)
