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Entangled histories

6 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.

ONE SPINE OF YEARS · TWO WALLS OF EVENTS · CHN LEFT · KOR RIGHT

1. 108 BCE

   Fall of Gojoseon to Han China

   The Han dynasty conquers Gojoseon and establishes commanderies in the north, fragmenting the peninsula into smaller competing states.

   War & Rupture · from the South Korea chronicle · Gojoseon and the Three Kingdoms · REFS 2 — Korea (history), Gojoseon

2. 668 CE

   Silla unifies the peninsula

   Allied with Tang China, Silla conquers Baekje in 660 and Goguryeo in 668, then expels the Tang, achieving the first unification of Korea under native rule.

   War & Rupture · from the South Korea chronicle · Gojoseon and the Three Kingdoms · REFS 2 — Three Kingdoms period, Unified Silla dynasty

3. 1592-1598 CE

   Japanese (Imjin) invasions repelled

   Toyotomi Hideyoshi's forces invade Korea; resistance led by Admiral Yi Sun-sin and his turtle ships, with Ming Chinese aid, ultimately drives them out.

   War & Rupture · from the South Korea chronicle · The Joseon Dynasty · REFS 2 — Joseon dynasty, Korea (history)

4. 25 June 1950

   The Korean War

   North Korea invades the South; a US-led UN force and Chinese intervention turn the war into a grinding stalemate that devastates the peninsula and kills millions.

   War & Rupture · from the South Korea chronicle · Division, the Korean War, and Authoritarian Rebuilding · REFS 2 — The Korean War and Japan's Recovery, Korea (history)

5. 21 November 1950

   US troops reach the Yalu

   Troops of the US 7th Division's 17th Infantry reach the Yalu River at Hyesanjin, as Chinese armies mass along the river in Manchuria and an unknown number have already entered Korea.

   War & Rupture · from the South Korea chronicle · Division, the Korean War, and Authoritarian Rebuilding · REFS 1 — Policy and Direction: The First Year, Chapter XIV, The Threshold of Victory

6. 27 July 1953

   The Demilitarized Zone is defined

   The armistice, signed at Panmunjom by Lt. Gen. William K. Harrison Jr. for the UN Command and Gen. Nam Il for the Korean People's Army and the Chinese People's Volunteers, fixes a military demarcation line and has both sides withdraw two kilometres from it, making a buffer zone about four kilometres wide. The line follows the positions held at the end of the fighting, not the 38th parallel; the coast-to-coast length is given as 238 kilometres by National Geographic.

   War & Rupture · from the South Korea chronicle · Division, the Korean War, and Authoritarian Rebuilding · REFS 2 — Armistice Agreement for the Restoration of the South Korean State (1953), Why the Korean DMZ is not the 38th parallel