Table of Contents (click to expand)Origins Of The DivisionSeparate Regimes EmergeThe Korean WarThe Cold War Rift Entrenches DivisionConclusion The division of North and South Korea occurred amidst post-World War II geopolitics, perpetuating a bitter divide shaped by the Cold War. The division of the Korean peninsula into the separate nations of North Korea and South Korea was not an inevitability, but rather the product of global geopolitics and military realities at the end of World War II. ...
