Veteran Sherman Pratt recalls the tough conditions during the Korean War.

The 38th parallel is the dangerous line that divides North and South Korea. But what lead to this division and why does it remain one of the most contentious areas in the world?

North Korea hasn’t always been under the totalitarian rule of the Kim regime. Foreign enablers and internal strife have completely reshaped the region over the last 100+ years, transforming a once-peaceful monarchy into the oppressive dictatorship we know today.

The spread of Communism in Korea led to a battle that was brief yet bloody, and a national divide that exists to this day.