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Korea since 1945

Division into South and North Korea (1948): U.S. and Soviet military aid to and disputes over the two Korean republics
North Korean invasion (1950) of South Korea and the Korean War (1950-53): U.S. and UN intervention, Chinese participation, armistice (1953)
South Korea since the armistice: the regimes of Syngman Rhee (1948-60) and Park Chung Hee (1961-79), the assassination of Park and its consequences, economic growth, democratic reforms in the late 1980s and 1990s
North Korea since the armistice: consolidation of Communist government power under Kim Il-sung, relations with the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China, military and industrial growth, death of Kim Il-sung (1994)

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