What is the dividing line between North Korea and South Korea?

The dividing line between North Korea and South Korea is the "38th parallel". This "38th parallel" is not a straight line in the conventional sense, but is named because it is close to the position of 38 degrees north latitude. Then why use this "38th parallel" as the dividing line? This was not actually formed in the Korean War, but dates back to the end of World War II.

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1August 8, 945, two days after the original bombing of Hiroshima, the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, and the Red Army of the Soviet Union launched an attack on the Japanese Kwantung Army entrenched in the northeast of China, and the soldiers pointed directly at the Korean peninsula. On August 10, Japan expressed its willingness to accept the Potsdam Proclamation through neutrality. /kloc-in August of 0/5, on the day when the Japanese emperor issued the imperial edict of final war, in order to win the war, the US military drew up a surrender plan and submitted it to the Soviet Union for approval. In the surrender plan, the United States proposed to demarcate the surrender area of the Soviet Union and the United States on the Korean Peninsula with the 38th parallel of north latitude as the boundary.

Dean Roske, who participated in the division, later recalled that he and Charles bonesteel received the task in the middle of August in 14, when they only had a map in National Geographic magazine. Because they were unfamiliar with North Korea and couldn't find any natural dividing line on the peninsula, they took out the 38th parallel north of Seoul as a division plan. 16 In August, only one day after receiving the surrender plan submitted by the US military, the Soviet Union approved the proposal.

It is generally believed that the reason why the Soviet Union agreed to the Ma Le 38th parallel when it launched a fierce offensive against the Kwantung Army was in exchange for the United States agreeing to the Soviet Union's takeover of Hokkaido. However, the proposal of the Soviet Union and the United States to occupy Japan was not documented at that time, and was later rejected by the United States because the United States occupied Japan.

In this way, as an axis country, Japan has basically preserved the integrity of its traditional territory; As a victim, North Korea was inexplicably divided.

1945 In September, American troops landed on the Korean peninsula and began to rule the south. America's most important strategy is to balance the Soviet Union in East Asia. Therefore, the U.S. military government refused to recognize the self-determination people's committee organized by the Koreans, and even hired a large number of Koreans who had worked for Japanese colonial institutions to support Li Chengwan who had lived in the United States for a long time and opposed dictatorship in order to suppress the left-leaning people's committee. This led to the division of North and South Korea, and in the four or five years after the war, the temporary geographical dividing line of the 38th parallel evolved into a political watershed between the two hostile forces on the Korean peninsula.

1950 On June 25th, the Korean War broke out all over the country, and Chinese people's Volunteer Army quickly joined the war. With the support of the Soviet Union, we fought against the United Nations forces and the South Korean army led by the United States. After many battles, we finally stabilized the front along the "38th parallel".

195 1 10 In July, China and North Korea started armistice negotiations with the United Nations Army and the United States, and signed an armistice agreement on July 27, 1953. The final military demarcation line between North Korea and South Korea was determined in the Armistice Agreement. In the Armistice Agreement, a demilitarized zone with a width of about 4 kilometers and a length of about 248 kilometers was also defined on both sides of the "38th parallel". As can be seen from the map, this dividing line was adjusted on the basis of the "38th parallel", not the 38th parallel, but it is still customarily called the "38th parallel".