Korean War

July 27, 1953

The United States, North Korea and China sign an armistice, which ends the war but fails to bring about a permanent peace. To date, the Republic of Korea (South) and Democratic Peoples' Republic of Korea (North) have not signed a peace treaty. North and South Korea did sign a non-aggression treaty in 1991.

Information from the following website:

http://www.korean-war.com/TimeLine/1953/timeline1953.html

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The amphibious landing at Inchon cut the communist supply line, and put UN forces behind enemy lines.

Yes, South Korea is democratic.

All together there were 7,245 American POW's. Of these, 4,418 returned to the U.S, 2,847 died, and 21 refused repatriation. There were also 389 POW's known to be alive in North Korea after all US POW's had supposedly been returned.

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It was on the Korean Peninsula. That's why it is called the Korean War.

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We can now observe the McCarthy witch hunt with the perfect clarity of hindsight, however, it was not that simple at the time. It was true that the USSR was the enemy of the US and had active agents within the US, although as it turns out, none of the people targeted by McCarthy or his allies in the House Un-American Activities Committee were actually Soviet agents. The conflict between capitalist and communist economic systems did exist, it was not imaginary, but the strategy of responding to this threat was frequently wrong. McCarthy did not consider his statements to be unbelievable and neither did large numbers of Americans who supported him, including Richard Nixon, one of the early crusaders against communist infiltration, who later was elected to two terms as President, although he also resigned in his second term. McCarthyism tapped in to a certain element of paranoia in the American public. There are today still people who claim that Barack Obama does not legally qualify to be President, which is just the latest version of the same paranoia.

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The Lincoln Memorial serves to commemorate US President Abraham Lincoln. He is credited with preserving the country when it was at its weakest and freeing the slaves, making him one of the most beloved of the past presidents.

The name of the war gives the clue. Korea. Now look up Korea on a world map and see where it is.

I'm guessing you mean North Korea, The United States could take care of them by themselves. South Korea would be our first ally because of the tension of the two Koreas. The U.S. would also be allied with the U.K., Germany, France, pretty much all of Europe, and possibly Japan or a South American country. North Korea would probably get help from China and other communist nations, and Russia would be a wildcard.

Yes. 3 points for front line duty. 2 points rear area. I think, 1 point for rear support elements.

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At the end of the Korean war the economies of both North and South Korea were devastated, but due to the centralized and heavy handed government policies of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung and from massive economic assistance from Communist Bloc nations, North Korea rebounded much quicker than South Korea. Between the 60s and 70's the rest of the industrialized world referred ot it as the Korean miracle.

However, three things changed; First, Kim Il Sung died and the reins of power passed to the inept leadership of his son Kim Jong Il. His disastrous economic policies included a "military first" policy which favored the military heirachy over the civlian population, as well as a monetary reform to stamp out black marketing which wiped out the life savings of practically every North Korean. Second, After the fall of the Soviet Union and after China started embracing capitalism under Deng Xiaoping, all economic assistance and subsidies were cut off to North Korea and everything from food to fuel became scarce, leading millions of people in the north to die of starvation and the entire infrastructure of the country pracctically shutting down. Third, South Korea slowly but surely brought itself up out of the war of wreckage and its own series of inept leaders to become one of the strongest economies in the world. Companies like the electronics firm Samsung and automotive firms Hyundai and Kia have become industry giants and all the former ideological allies of North Korea now recognize South Korea as a sovereign nation and have established diplomatic and economic relations with the south, as well as demanding North Korea pay for their imports in cash, further isolating North Korea economically and politically.

Today, the difference in GDP between the two is staggering. The GDP of North Korea is approx. $40 billion while the GDP of South Korea is a whopping $1.5 TRILLION, over a thousand times higher. At this point, most analysts (including China) believe North Korea is in imminent danger of collapse which will send millions of refugees across the borders into China and South Korea. The wild card is whether North Korea's new leader Kim Jong Un will revive the situation or hammer the final nail in the coffin.

The Communist's suffered a loss of face when they backed down during the Cuban Missile Crisis of '62. They gained some of their prestige back when they won the Vietnam War in '75. Note*-The Communist TET offensive of '68 showed that the communists were a determined foe; and the handwriting was on the wall at that time for the US.

In short, it was a policy of containment that the United States had started to practice after the end of WWII. The US felt threatened by the Communist influence spreading throught the world and decided that they had to stop the communists at any costs. This is also the reason the United States got involved in Vietnam. Truman would not let the US forces cross into North Korea, just push their army back to their side of the border.

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The outcome of the Cold War was that all the countries in Europe that were controlled by the Soviets now have democratically-elected governments. The USSR ended up collapsing due to their heightened effort to keep up with the United States' atomic weapons program, which drained a large sum of money from the country.

It would either be a communist nation or a non-communist (free) country. Whose going to decide that? They both will!? That's war! And they fought from 1950 to 1953 about it.

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