What Made Korea Split into North and South Korea

Why North and South Korea are divided at the 38th parallel goes back to a 30-minute map job in Washington in August 1945. The film traces 35 years of Japanese rule, the Cairo promise that Korea would become free, and how Dean Rusk and Charles Bonesteel drew a surrender line that was never meant to be a border. It shows how that temporary line became two permanent states, a mass exodus, and a three-year war that froze the division. Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:31 How a 30-minute map divided Korea 7:59 Two State Declaration