The Last Battle on the 38th Parallel

In the summer of 1949, during the final gasps of revolt on Jeju Island, the first of many clashes on the 38th parallel kicked up between North and South Korea. In early May, in K-Song, a town just over on the northern side, the South's troops fired on their northern countrymen. As many as 400 North Korean troops and 100 civilians died; two South Korean army companies defected to the North.