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The Korean War, which erupted in a blaze of artillery and infantry assaults on June 25, 1950, is often mistakenly viewed as a sudden conflict. In reality, it was the violent culmination of a five-year political and ideological schism that fractured the Korean Peninsula. This division was not the result of ancient ethnic hatreds or a natural geographical boundary, but a direct consequence of the power vacuum left by the collapse of the Japanese Empire and the ensuing Cold War rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union. The 38th parallel38th Parallel Full Description: An arbitrary latitude line chosen…