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    Korean War: The Soviet(s) Will Keep Right On Going and Swallow Up One (Place) After Another."

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    The Korean War began in June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea, crossing the 38th parallel boundary between the two countries. By July, American troops had entered the war to support South Korea against the forces of international communism. Initially, North Korean forces pushed UN and South Korean forces back near the southern port city of Pusan. In September 1950, UN forces launched a successful amphibious invasion at Incheon, cutting off North Korean troops. UN forces advanced into North Korea by October but faced surprise intervention by Chinese forces in November, forcing a retreat back below the 38th parallel by the end of 1950. An armistice agreement in July 1953 ended fighting but no peace treaty was signed, leaving the two Koreas

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    The Korean War began in June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea, crossing the 38th parallel boundary between the two countries. By July, American troops had entered the war to support South Korea against the forces of international communism. Initially, North Korean forces pushed UN and South Korean forces back near the southern port city of Pusan. In September 1950, UN forces launched a successful amphibious invasion at Incheon, cutting off North Korean troops. UN forces advanced into North Korea by October but faced surprise intervention by Chinese forces in November, forcing a retreat back below the 38th parallel by the end of 1950. An armistice agreement in July 1953 ended fighting but no peace treaty was signed, leaving the two Koreas

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    The Korean War began in June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea, crossing the 38th parallel boundary between the two countries. By July, American troops had entered the war to support South Korea against the forces of international communism. Initially, North Korean forces pushed UN and South Korean forces back near the southern port city of Pusan. In September 1950, UN forces launched a successful amphibious invasion at Incheon, cutting off North Korean troops. UN forces advanced into North Korea by October but faced surprise intervention by Chinese forces in November, forcing a retreat back below the 38th parallel by the end of 1950. An armistice agreement in July 1953 ended fighting but no peace treaty was signed, leaving the two Koreas

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    The Korean War began in June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea, crossing the 38th parallel boundary between the two countries. By July, American troops had entered the war to support South Korea against the forces of international communism. Initially, North Korean forces pushed UN and South Korean forces back near the southern port city of Pusan. In September 1950, UN forces launched a successful amphibious invasion at Incheon, cutting off North Korean troops. UN forces advanced into North Korea by October but faced surprise intervention by Chinese forces in November, forcing a retreat back below the 38th parallel by the end of 1950. An armistice agreement in July 1953 ended fighting but no peace treaty was signed, leaving the two Koreas

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    KOREAN WAR

    The Korean war began on June 25, 1950, when some 75,000 soldiers
    from the North Korean People’s Army(KPA) crossed the 38 th parallel, the
    boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
    to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion
    was the first military action of the Cold War. By July, American troops had
    entered the war on South Korea’s side. American officials believed that the war
    was against the forces of international communism itself. The North Korean
    Invasion came as an alarming surprise to American officials. They are
    concerned that this was not simply a border dispute between two unstable
    dictatorships on the other side of the globe but rather the first step in a
    communist campaign to take over the world. This mindset is reflected in a
    statement by the then-U.S President, Harry Truman: ”If we let Korea down,
    the Soviet[s] will keep right on going and swallow up one [place] after
    another.“
    At first, the war was a defensive one to get the communists out of South Korea
    and it went badly for the Allies. South Korean Army(ROKA) and the US forces
    rapidly dispatched to Korea were on the point of defeat. The North Korean
    army was well-disciplined, well-trained,
    and well-equipped; President Rhee’s
    South Korean army on the other hand
    were frightened, confused, and easy to
    flee the battlefield at any provocation. On
    June 28, Seoul fell to the North Korean.
    As a result, the ROKA and US troops
    retreated to a small area behind a
    defensive line known as Pusan Perimeter.
    In September 1950, an amphibious
    UN counter-offensive, commanded by
    Gen. Douglas Macarthur, successfully
    landed at Incheon and cut off many KPA
    troops in South Korea. UN forces invaded
    North Korea in October 1950 and moved
    rapidly towards the Yalu River on the border between China and Korea. On
    October 19,China, worried that the approaching UN forces might enter Chinese
    territory, crossed the Yalu River and entered the war. The surprise Chinese
    intervention triggered a retreat of UN forces back below the 38 th parallel by
    late December.
    Chinese leader, Mao Zedong, warned US to keep away from Yalu
    boundary unless it wanted full-scale war. This worried President Harry Truman
    and his advisers because they knew such war would certainly lead to the
    deployment of atomic weapons and millions of senseless deaths; in contrast,
    Gen. Macarthur wanted to use nuclear weapons against the Chinese and North
    Korean. This led to his dismissal by President Truman on April 11, 1951. On July
    27 1953, fighting between both side ceased when the Korean Armistice
    Agreement was signed. The agreement created the Korean Demilitarized
    Zone(DMZ) to separate North and South Korea and allowed the return of
    prisoners. However, no peace treaty was signed and the two Koreas were
    technically still at war but both side had met to work towards a way to formally
    end the Korean War.
    The Korean War was among the most destructive conflicts of the
    modern era, with approximately 3 million war fatalities and a larger civilian
    death toll than World War II or the Vietnam War. It caused the destruction of
    virtually all of Korea's major cities, thousands of massacres by both sides
    (including the mass killing of tens of thousands of suspected communists by
    the South Korean government), and the torture and starvation of prisoners of
    war by the North Korean command. North Korea became among the most
    heavily-bombed countries in history.

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