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What is the DMZ? - Coggle Diagram
What is the DMZ?
Dividing line between North and South Korea
38th parallel
4 km wide area
at center: Truce Village Panmunjom
Shows exactly where the countries are split
Only place where North and South Korean can meet
Crossing almost impossible
So many conflict = 2de Korean War
North Korea build tunnel to invade South
Propaganda across border
Meetings in 2018
First unified Korean kingdom 668 AD
Hermit kingdom
20th century: Russo Japanese War
1910: Korea = Japan's colony
Try to suppress all culture and history
Forced them to fight in WWII
North surrender to USSR South surrender to USA
Postdam conference July 1945
General order N°1
Dictates Japan post war surrender
Koreans have no say in it
1948
Syngman Rhee elected president in the South
Kim Il-Sung as dynastic ruler in the North
Claim to represent Korea as a hole
June 25th, 1950 Start of the korean War
North invade south
Truce in 1953
Technically still at war
North Korea is hard to leave
Try by China border