Debates and interpretations surrounding the history before and after liberation have been intense, yet research remains insufficient. One cause is the scarcity of primary sources from the period ...

Cameryn Jones is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation. Anna Gustafson is a research assistant in the Allison Center for National Security at The Heritage Foundation.

Korea had been a single political entity governing the Korean Peninsula up until the end of World War II, when the Soviet Union and United States each occupied the northern and southern halves ...

Korea was freed from Japanese rule in 1945, but it was immediately divided into Soviet and U.S. occupation zones along the 38th parallel—a line picked as a practical surrender boundary.What was meant ...

Gen. Douglas MacArthur was a hero from two World Wars who had served as the supreme commander of the Allied forces in the Pacific. He personally accepted the surrender of Japan, oversaw the Allied ...

North Korean soldiers file up the stairs to pay tribute to a statue of the late leader Kim Il Sung as they tour a newly constructed Korean War museum that was officially opened Saturday, July 27, 2013 ...