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On 7 September 1945, General Douglas MacArthur issued Proclamation No. 1 to the people of Korea, announcing U.S. military control over Korea south of the 38th parallel and establishing English as the official language during military control. [34] That same day, he announced that Lieutenant General John R. Hodge was to administer Korean affairs.
Korea was divided at the 38th parallel in 1945 with the separation of the sovereign states of North Korea and South Korea in 1948; Establishment of the Military Demarcation Line as the border from 1953 to present. Korean Demilitarized Zone established in 1953
Under the agreement, the belligerents established the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) which mostly follows the 38th parallel. In the eastern part, the DMZ runs north of the 38th parallel; to the west, it travels south of it. Kaesong, site of the initial negotiations, was in pre-war South Korea but is now part of North Korea.
The Korean Demilitarized Zone intersects but does not follow the 38th parallel north, which was the border before the Korean War. It crosses the parallel on an angle, with the west end of the DMZ lying south of the parallel and the east end lying north of it. The DMZ is 250 km (160 mi) long, [1] approximately 4 km (2.5 mi) wide.
But if Kim were to attack across the 38th parallel, which divided North and South Korea after the 1953 armistice halting the Korean War, it’s the South Korean military that would bear the ...
The DMZ runs near the 38th parallel, covering roughly 248 kilometers (154 mi). [4] American and South Korean soldiers patrol this line along the South Korean side while North Korean soldiers patrol along the North Korean side. In Korean, the line is called the Hyujeonseon (휴전선), meaning "armistice line."
Both governments claimed to be the sole legitimate government of all Korea, and neither accepted the 38th-parallel border as permanent. Pak Hon-yong, the leader of the Communist Party of Korea, announced the five principles of a joint venture on June 23, 1946. Pak argued against the confiscation and re-distribution of land, and demanded the ...
The North Korean side was slow to support armistice talks and only on 27 June 1951 – seventeen days after armistice talks had begun – it did change its slogan of "drive the enemy into the sea" to "drive the enemy to the 38th parallel." [13] North Korea was pressured to support armistice talks by its allies the People's Republic of China and ...