Same Day, Different Century
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Same Day, Different Century
The Forgotten War
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Zachary
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On June 25, 1950, roughly 90,000 North Korean soldiers crossed the 38th parallel before dawn, launching an invasion that would drag in three major world powers and kill over one million people. The Korean War lasted three years and technically never ended. But the border those armies fought over was never meant to be permanent. Today, that border is still there, and the contrast between the two nations it divides is visible from space.