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Following the end of World War II, Korea was divided into North and South Korea with the border at the 38th parallel. Not only were the two sectors split geographically, but the governments’ regimes were diametrically different as well. It was a conflict between the communist regime in the North and the nationalist leadership in the South that would ultimately lead to the Korean War. In Paul Lashmar’s article published in New Statesman and …

…release of some primary documents from the former Soviet Union, it has been conclusively decided that it was the Russians and Chinese who were working as allies to the North Koreans and played a large part in instigating the war. As the defense ministry, which also reviewed the documents, noted, “the Korean War was caused by a conspiracy among Stalin, Mao, and Kim” (Key-young, pg. PG). The conspiracy, put simply, was to expand communist power.