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After Japan's surrender at the end of World War II in August 1945, Korea, which had been under Japanese colonial rule since 1910, was liberated. The peninsula was divided along the 38th parallel into two occupation zones: the Soviet Union took control of the north, while the United States occupied the south. This division ultimately led to the establishment of two separate governments in 1948: the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north and the capitalist Republic of Korea in the south, setting the stage for the Korean War in 1950.

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