🤔Why There Are Two Koreas!? The story of North Korea and South Korea is a tale of war, politics, and superpower rivalry. Once a single nation, Korea was annexed by Japan in 1910 and remained under Japanese occupation for 35 years, until the end of World War II. In the final days of the war, Soviet troops entered from the north while US forces advanced from the south. To prevent the USSR from gaining complete control, the United States proposed dividing Korea along the 38th parallel as a tempora