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In 108 BCE, the Han Dynasty invaded the kingdom and installed four commanderies in northern Korea. Three of the commanderies fell within a few decades, except the Lelang Commandery. The Three ...
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- History on Maps
May 26, 2024 · Discover how Korea was divided into North and South after World War II, the impact of the Korean War, and how the Cold War influenced both regions. We also delve into the remarkable...
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- History Guardian
The History of Modern Korea (1895-2020)The Poll: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYb6v1AlX6prKl83DswM5iw/community?lb=UgxoWBj3Tlwcs_qX7bh4AaABCQ Patreon: ht...
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- A Unified Korea
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For centuries before the division, the peninsula was a single, unified Korea, ruled by generations of dynastic kingdoms. Occupied by Japan after the Russo-Japanese War in 1905 and formally annexed five years later, Korea chafed under Japanese colonial rule for 35 years—until the end of World War II, when its division into two nations began. “The ca...
In August 1945, the two allies “in name only” (as Robinson puts it) divided control over the Korean Peninsula. Over the next three years (1945-48), the Soviet Army and its proxies set up a communist regime in the area north of latitude 38˚ N, or the 38th parallel. South of that line, a military government was formed, supported directly by the Unite...
The Korean War (1950-53), which killed at least 2.5 million people, did little to resolve the question of which regime represented the “true” Korea. It did, however, firmly establish the United States as the permanent bête noire of North Korea, as the U.S. military bombed villages, towns and cities across the northern half of the peninsula. “They l...
With continuing strong ties to the West (and an ongoing U.S. military presence), South Korea developed a robust economy, and in recent decades has made steps toward becoming a fully democratic nation. Meanwhile, North Korea remained an isolated “hermit kingdom”—particularly after the collapse of the Soviet bloc in the early 1990s—and economically u...
Despite efforts at diplomacy under South Korea’s current president, Moon Jae-in, the stark differences between the two Koreas were on full display in the run-up to the 2018 Winter Olympic Games. Even as South Koreans began welcoming athletes from around the world to the Winter Games, Kim Jong Un’s regime in the North put on a military parade in Pyo...
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Jan 16, 2017 · The history of Korea from 8000 BCE to 2017 CE, with a slide for every year from 321 BCE onwards. Furthermore, you can also learn about the major events throughout Korean history.
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May 3, 2024 · The ideological and political differences eventually led to the Korean War in 1950, when North Korean forces, equipped and advised by the Soviet Union and later supported by Chinese troops, invaded South Korea in an attempt to reunify the peninsula under communist rule.
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Historical background. Japanese rule (1910–1945) World War II. Liberation, confusion, and conflict. Post–World War II. Division (since 2 September 1945) Soviet occupation of northern Korea. US occupation of southern Korea. US–Soviet Joint Commission. UN intervention and the formation of separate governments. Korean War. Armistice.
