Sources, please!
In message <c1.294990a.2637285a at aol.com>, TRox51 at aol.com writes
>To set the historical record straight, the dividing line in Korea at the 38th
>parallel was drawn one night in August 1945 by Dean Rusk, later Sec. of State
>under JFK, at that time a low level official in the War Dept. Totally arbitrary
>of course, but decided in consent with the Soviet Union, which stopped at that
>line and never crossed when they occupied the northern part of Korea several
>weeks before the US army entered the southern part. Five years later, in the
>rollback policy now reclaimed by John McCain, US forces crossed that line and
>briefly occupied NK until they were driven out with the help of the Chinese.
>Tim Shorrock
-- Jim heartfield