What is the 39th parralel?

Answer 1

The 38th (not 39th) parallel is the arbitrary line which was drawn between North and South Korea afte WWII. The Soviets would administer the reconstruction of Korea north of that line, and the US would administer south of that line. In June of 1950, the North Koreans (with Soviet and later Chinese backing) attacked the south. The reason for the war (though it was referred to as a "police action") was over whether the form of government would be communism or democracy.
A peace accord was signed in July 1953, with the 38th parallel as the dividing line again, and hostilities generally ended -- but the war has never officially ended and soldiers on both sides have continued to be killed in isolated incidents defending the line. The US still has troops there.
By the way, be careful of using wikipedia as an unconfirmed source -- the info is often inaccurate, since anyone can add to it!

Answer 2

At the end of the Korean War the Korean Peninsula was roughly cut in half, crossing the 38th parallel on an acute angle, with the west end of the DMZ lying south of the parallel.

When the Korean War ended in 1953, citizens of South Korea were forbidden by the government to visit the North or have any direct contact with its citizens. Tentative contacts between the two Koreas began only in the late 1980s. Now, with the UN about to admit both North and South, closer relations are possible.

In 1991 scientists from both Koreas attending an international science and technology congress in Yanji, China, used the occasion to discuss future cooperation.

They say that the South Koreans crossed the '39th parallel' into North Korea so their scientists can talk.

Answer 3

It is a meridian line on the earth, that leaders determined during the Vietnam war, to divide the North from the South. All of the battles in Vietnam occurred South of the 39th parallel.

Answer 4

The division between north and south korea

Answer 5

It is the line on a map or globe that is 39 degrees above (or below) the equator.

Answer 6

I think its a boundary between the south and north korea.

Answer 7

its a line around the earth not exactly sure where but you could find it on a globe

Answer 8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/39th_parallel_north

Answer 9

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