Question

What does the $38^{th}$ Parallel Line separate?
A. India from Bangladesh
B. India from China
C. North Korea from South Korea
D. India from Pakistan

Answer 1

Hint: Latitude is a geographical coordinate that specifies the north-south location of a point on the Earth's surface. Its angle ranges from $0^\circ$ at the Equator to $90^\circ$ at the poles. Latitudes, or parallels, run from east to west as circles parallel to the equator.

Complete Answer:
The $38^{th}$ parallel is a name given at 38 degrees north latitude, which roughly separates North Korea from South Korea in East Asia. This line was selected by military planners at the Potsdam Conference of July 1945 at the end of World War II. The border, where the United States was supposed to accept the surrender of Japanese troops in South Korea to the north and the Americans to accept the surrender of Japan to the south, was intended as a temporary division of the country. Beginning the war established another US-oriented government in South Korea under Syngman Rhee and a communist government in North Korea under Kim Il Sung. While the Soviet policy was widely popular with the peasant class North Korean workers but most middle-class Koreans fled to the south of the 38th parallel, where most of Korea's population lives today.
Therefore, the correct answer is Option, ‘C- North Korea from South Korea’.

Note: In August 1945, both allies split control of the Korean Peninsula. Three years later, the Soviet Army and its allies established a communist regime in the north of latitude $38^\circ$ N, and below the $38^{th}$ parallel, a military government was established, with direct support from the United States.