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1. Korean War

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   Origins and Background
   Following the surrender of Imperial Japan in 1945, Korea, which had been a Japanese colony since 1910, was temporarily divided into two zones of occupation administered by the Soviet Union in the North and the US in the South. This administrative boundary quickly hardened into a political frontier. Efforts to establish a unified, independent Korean government failed due to deepening ideological polarization between the two occupying powers. By 1948, two separate states were declared: the communist DPRK led by [Kim Il-sung](/entries/kim-il-su…