... the USSR ad the southern part to the Unites States. In 1948 this division became official. While the southern Korea tried to finish with leftists, the North Korean leader, Kim Il Sung, sought to unify the Korea Peninsula under Communist rule. In June 1950 he launched a full-scale military invasion of South Korea, thereby starting the Korean War. The United States ... ...

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