Korea was liberated from
the invasion in Aug.1945 as Japan surrendered and
it resulted in the end of World War II. U.S. had
started to confront with U.S.S.R about how to manage
Japan and Korea after war.
The reason of opposition is that they have different
opinion and hold each other in check; U.S dreamed
about domination of the world and U.S.S.R had grown
up to a powerful country. Also, trusteeship and
divided occupying, which U.S planned as the way
of resolution for the Korean Peninsula, was one
of restraint. The 38th Parallel, which had decided
by U.S one-sidely, was agreed by U.S.S.R on 16 Aug.1945.
This is the beginning of direct opposition each
other.
The Korean Peninsula was divided into two, South
and North, which have its own government in 1948
and 6.25 War broke out in 1950. After that, the
Armistice Agreement was put the seal in July 1953.
The armistice line is the troop disposition line
of truce that is installed by the mutual consents
among a supreme commander of the U.N., a commander
of people¡¯s army of North Korea and a commander
of people support army of China. In accordance with
Clause 1, Art. 1 of the Korea Armistice Agreement,
there should be one military demarcation line and
both parties had to retreat 2km from the line. The
armistice line is the same as the military demarcation
line, which reaches 248km(155mile) to the land and
around 200km to the west coast.
DMZ is the place where entrance and exit or development
has restricted for the purpose of military for ages.
In other words, DMZ is a neutral zone whose gross
area is around 30~40km including 4km(2km X 2) of
DMZ and the civilian control zone, (5~20km X 2).
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