38th parallel
- 38th Parallel is a circle of latitude in the Northern Hemisphere, used as the pre-Korean War boundary between North Korea and South Korea
-The division of Korea into North Korea and South Korea stems from the 1945 Allied victory in World War II
-The United States and the Soviet Union agreed to temporarily occupy the country as a trusteeship with the zone of control demarcated along the 38th Parallel.
-The Korean War, which lasted from 1950 to 1953, left the two Koreas separated by the Korean Demilitarized Zone through the cold war
-The Korean War finally ended in July 1953.
- 33,600 American, 16,000 UN allied, 415,000 South Korean, and 520,000 North Korean died
- Half of Korea's industry was destroyed and a third of all homes.