Korean War

The question misrepresents the way the war started. North Korea was in the Communist bloc while South Korea was oriented to the free world. The United Nations was actively engaged in keeping the peace at a time when it was less than five years in existence. When North Korea suddenly invaded South Korea with the purpose of unifying the country, the US called for a special session of the Security Council to restore peace. Oddly, the Soviet Union was at the time boycotting the meetings on an unrelated issue. If the SU had been present, it certainly would have vetoed any action, but as it happened the Security Council ordered the UN members to come to the defense of South Korea. The US and 15 other nations sent troops, By that time only Pusan in the southern tip had not been overrun by North troops. The UN forces, under the command of the US Gen. McArthur, pushed back and continued almost as far as the Yalu River in the north, but the Chinese Communist army joined the North Korean side. When the battle line returned approximately to the original dividing line, there was a stalemate and eventually an armistice, although to this day there is no peace.

The war began on 25 June 1950 until 27 July 1953.

From 1910 until the end of World War Two, Korea was a part of the Japanese Empire, and therefore Emperor Hirohito was its head of state. The emperor's representative during that period was the Governor General, resident in Seoul. (For a list of Governors General, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor-General_of_Korea.)

It was only after World War II that the Soviet Union and the United States agreed to split Korea into two zones of occupation, ostensibly in order to speed up the surrender of Japanese troops and to get them out of Korea faster.

The story goes that two US State Department officials (Bonesteel and Rusk) took out a National Geographic Magazine map and saw that the 38th parallel of latitude divided the Korean peninsula almost equally into half, while keeping the capital, Seoul, within the southern (American) zone of occupation. That is why they arbitrarily decided to make that the dividing line between Soviet and American forces.

North Korea (officially known as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) was not formally a state until September 1948, when the foundation of that state was declared, and Kim Il Sung its president.

1,789,000 Americans served in the Korean war. Some 33,600 were killed in action. More than 3,200 died in non-hostile incidents. More than 8,100 are still missing. These figures originate with the Defense Department, which has slightly more exact statistics in each case.

American war aims in Korea were to prevent the spread of communism obviously. The domino theory was proving to be correct and America felt threatened so they had to get involved. The war aim changed as the three-year war progressed. First, the simple aim was to prevent a complete Communist takeover of the whole peninsula. American leaders felt that this would almost certainly result in the loss of Japan, also. After the successful US and UN intervention, the Communist army was moved back almost to the Russian and Chinese borders and the US objective became a Korea free of Communism and free of Chinese and Russian influence. After the Chinese army entered the war the extreme expense and loss of lives forced the abandonment of the idea of taking the whole country and the aim became establishment of a non-Communist state on the southern part of the peninsula and permitting the north to set up a Communist government in order to end the war.

The Yalu River divides China and North Korea.

Korea's area is about the same size as the state of Utah.

Certainly, or at least as much so as the Soviets and Chinese were. Many people view that war as a war amongst Koreans, but there was outside intervention going on well before the United Nations got involved.

The forces under the UNC (United Nations Command) were from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Colombia, Denmark, Ethiopia, France, Greece, India, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Phillipines, South Africa, Republic of Korea, Sweden, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States. The forces which actually fought on the communist side were the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and China, with support from the Soviet Union.

I WAS IN KINDERGARDEN WHEN MY DAD WENT TO WAR IN KOREA. IT WAS A TIME WHEN AMERICA WAS JUST RETURNING TO NORMAL AFTER THE BIG WAR. EVERYDAY WAS PRETTY MUCH THE SAME. PLAY WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS AND HAVE A GOOD TIME. MY MOTHER DID NOT WORK SO SHE STAYED BUSY MAKING SURE THE HOUSE WAS ALWAYS CLEAN AND THAT EVERYTHING WOULD BE THE SAME IF MY DAD DID RETURN. ONE OF THE BEST CHRISTMAS I EVER HAD WAS DURING THIS TIME AS MY MOM WANTED TO MAKE SURE I HAD EVERYTHING. SHE SENT PICTURES OF A VERY NICE TREE WITH TONS OF TOYS AROUND IT TO MY DAD AND HE CHERISHED IT. WHEN HE RETURNED HE DID NOT TALK MUCK ABOUT THE WAR BUT STATED THAT HE WISHED THAT THERE WOULD NEVER BE ANOTHER ONE. YEARS LATER HE WOULD GO TO VIET NAM AND THEN WOULD RETIRE ONLY TO SEE ME JOIN THE MARINES DURING THE VIET NAM WAR. LIFE WAS ALOT LIKE LEAVE IT TO BEAVER NOW THAT I THINK BACK ON IT. PEOPLE DRESSED UP MORE AND CARED ABOUT THE NEIGHBORS. HOUSES WERE ALWAYS NEAT AND NO ONE DID DRUGS OR WERE WEIRD. I THINK THERE WAS LESS STRESS AND MORE FUN. TOO BAD WE HAD TO CHANGE.

We gained a super technologically advanced economic ally in the Far East for one (although at the time I don't think anyone could have predicted that); we prevented the spread of communism and the Soviet sphere of influence; strengthened the UN by giving it a task to perform as a whole (minus the Soviets of course); we learned we shouldn't go to war with China if we really don't have to; and we learned that McArthur, while a brilliant general, can be kind of a jerk sometimes; American and Soviet jet fighters got their first significant combat experience; helicopters were used en masse for the first time in a military situation; the experience of waves of Chinese soldiers charging us finally convinced the Pentagon of the need for a standard assault rifle with fully automatic capabilities, which would eventually lead to the M-16 and other modern American rifles; and the big one: the movie and tv show MASH. If that isn't something, then I don't know what something is.

The USA and Russia came to ocupy Korea because the helped Korea recover from all of the damage cause from World War Two then the just decided to each claim part of Korea since they had helped through this rough patch. They had spent a plentiful amount of time on recoving it that the considered it part of their land so each got half. One got Noth & the other got South.

Harry Truman was the President when the Korean War began, The began as a police action by the newly formed United Nation.

Australia -- South Korea relations are foreign relations between the Australia and South Korea. Both countries established diplomatic relations in May 1963.

During the Korean War, Australia has sent 17,000 soldiers to offer military cooperation with South Korea.

Prime minister of Australia, John Howard visited Seoul in 2000 while South Korean president Kim Dea-Jung came intoCanberra in 1999 and Ban Ki Moon, Minister of foreign affairs and trade once again in 2004. According to the 2006 Census, there are 60,873 Australians of Korean origin.

Economic ties has been strengthened while trade value between the two reached 18 billion dollars in 2007.

Pretty much because of a stale mate from both sides each exchanging littleterritory. TheChinese were already mounting huge casualties due to soldiers dying from hunger in numbers with would be in the tens of thousands.

some korean traditions are bowing to adults as a hello. more to elders and mature adults. a culture is they like to gather as a family and eat sam guep sal. koreans wear a clothing called han-bok on New Years Day when they bow down to elders and recieve money. koreans have a lot of traditional songs and games...a LOT

There definitely were Red Chinese Troops in Korea!

Really the only US success during the Korean War was South Korea continued to exist. America did not winthe war (they probably would have if it weren't for Chinese intervention) and Korea is still divided among a highly guarded political boundry.

There are far too many similarities to count, but here's a very few examples:

1. The US Civil War was the first US military massive draft of men, the Vietnam was the last.

2. Both wars had an assassinated US president.

3. Both wars had a President Johnson.

4. Both wars had a Vice President take over the nation due to the assassination.

5. Both wars the South lost the war.

6. Both wars the North won the war.

7. Both wars had draft dodgers.

8. Both wars treated their returning vets badly (for the South in the Civil War).

9. Both was had a civil rights issue.

10. Both wars introduced a new "assault" rifle; Spencer & M16.

11. Both wars had a reuniting "Splendid Little War" to amend the wounds from the Civil War & Vietnam War; The Spanish-American War of 1898 (called the Splendid Little War) and Operation Desert Storm in 1991 (called the 100 Hour War and the Gulf War). Both the SAW & DS occurred in the 90s.

12. The SAW was the last US war in which US Soldiers wore the blue uniform, as the US transitioned to khaki (brown) unforms. DS was the first full scale general issue of Desert Camoflage uniforms for the US services.

13. Both the Civil War & Vietnam War were UNDECLARED WARS.

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The Korean war was started when North Korean troops crossed over the 38th parallel and invaded the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the west and the Republic of Korea to the south.

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North Korea's economic system is restricted due to it's communist form of government. South Korea's economic performance has no restrictions.