At the end of the Korean War, the 38th parallel became more than a line on a map. It became a fault line between two planets.To the south, a dazzling first-world triumph. To the north, a sealed, third ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the Korean War. Although hostilities ceased in 1953, there has been no formal end to the war. Korea was under Japanese rule before and during World War II, and was divided ...

One of the questions remaining at the end of of World War II was what to do about the Korean peninsula. Ruled since 1910 by the empire of Japan, in 1945 it was decided to split Korea into two ...