What was the outcome of the Korean War?

• A. Full peace treaty signed
• B. Unification of Korea under a single government
• C. Armistice in 1953 resulting in division of Korea into North and South with no formal peace treaty
• D. North Korea conquered South Korea

Answer: (C)

The key idea is that the Korean War ended with a ceasefire, not a formal peace agreement. In 1953, an armistice halted active fighting and set up the Military Demarcation Line and a Demilitarized Zone near the 38th parallel, but no peace treaty was ever signed to officially end the war. Because there was no formal peace treaty, Korea remained divided into two separate governments—North Korea and South Korea—with no unified state.

This is why the other possibilities don’t fit: there was no full peace treaty signed, so unification under a single government did not occur; the war did not end with North Korea conquering the South, and while fighting stopped, the division persisted rather than a single, unified Korea.