Korean War

There are some good books on the subject from the US and UK perspective.

There were some acts of military genius - the landing at Incheon.

There was fighting against vastly superior numbers.

There were the first combat use of Jet fighters.

There were massive set-backs and enormous victories.

And after all the deaths and suffering - there was everyone back where they started.

In short, it was the same as any other war or conflict, bloody, brutal and costly.......

It was a seasonal conflict, sweat in the summer and freeze in the winter. To advance meant climbing hills and mountains because that was where the Chinese and North Koreans fought from........In my opinion, one of a kind conflict...............

I disagree: You are only illuminating one aspect of the conflict. Yes there was considerable hill to hill defence - but much of the pacific campaign of WWII was similar in parts.

The only recourse is to read a book on the whole conflict to get a feel for the different phases and aspects of the conflict.

Authoritarian type leader. Their leader Kim Jong-il rule with an iron fist. He took leadership after his father Kim Il-sung died in 1994. There is little information on the type of leader he is as the country is completely isolated from the outside world. Kim Jong-il are describe to be paranoid by his Japanese Cook when he saw what happen in Romania in 1989 the downfall of the Romania communist government. Therefore he use all method of suppress dissent. Sometime public execution, putting people in Gulag and cut off all available way for it citizen to get access to foreign information. He also use media to portray him self as God and is describe to have a cult personality. In north Korea's media his birth sound like the Birth of Jesus saying his mother was a Virgin and weather change as he was born. He also rarely meet foreign diplomat and rare pay state visit. The only country he travel to is China and Russia.

He also been described to love basketball and watch Hollywood and loves Bordeaux wine. He also loves making movies and design majority of the uniform now use my the army.

1. A limited war (limited to conventional non-nuclear weapons).

2. It was fought between two separate nations: North Korea and South Korea (with their appropiate allies).

3. A civil war is fought against itself. One nation fighting itself.

Korea in 1927 was occupied by Imperial Japan, it was a colony. N. Korea was not founded until post-WW2

North Korea is communist, and South Korea is democratic. The Korean War had ended in a stalemate (when neither side gets a victory) so they remained split apart, and with different governments.

Korean democracy stood up to communism. the result of this was a stalemate. (nobody wins_a tie) this happened around 150-53.

The US had no option but to support the South side of Korea that was divided by the 17th parallel. North Korea was already supported by the soviet Union, so they favored Communism. South Korea favored Capitalism, or Democracy for its people. The U.S. had basically joined the southern part of Korea in order to slow down the spread of Communism.

Canada provided a number of military units, ranging from infantry to artillery to armour, as well as fighter squadrons, and RCN ships on coastal patrols.

The Canadian Army units werea part of the Commonwealth Brigade, that was comprised of British, Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand troops.

The RCAF fighter pilots flew their own F86 jets, and some were "loaned " to USAF units to train them in close groundsupport to the Commonwealth Brigade, as they used a completely different method of "calling in the air support".

A small and dirty war, that is not much remembered now. Except by those who were there.

President D. Eisenhower.

The United States wanted to contain communism and stop its spread. They were afraid that the Soviets were trying to 'export' communism all over the globe.

Mr. Lange says no.

North Korea was supported by Soviet Union and South Korea was supported by the U.S.

To help pay back the US for it's WW2 debt.

A traditional wedding anniversary gift for the 38th year is jewelry constructed with beryl or tourmaline gemstones. The modern crowd goes for gifts like diamond earring or flowers.

German: Rommel, Manstein, Guderian, Paulus.

British: Montgomery, Slim, Wavell.

Russian: Zhukov, Rokossovskii.

American: McArthur, Patton, Bradley.

Japanese: Kimura, Yamashita.

I honestly think war with Korea will come within the next 5 years. I could be wrong but it seems like what Nazi Germany did when Hitler started to come into power breaking pacts with the league of nations and eventually disbanding from it but with north Korea its nukes. They say that it is for self defense but i wouldn't be surprised if they launch a Missile at japan, south Korea, or even the US west coast considering they are working on long range missiles.

South Korea will start on north because of that island 'mishap' so yeah totally in the next 5 years. I wonder how will be in it

It was a success because the mission was accomplished; the communists were stopped; and the Republic of South Korea was preserved. It was never a failure.

THAT IS NOT TRUE! Gosh people... North Korea is STILL COMMUNISM, and if you need to know if FOR the US it was a success then DON'T ask Answer.com! NO offense but there are SO MANY ignorant people that DON'T know what to say! NORTH KOREA IS STILL COMMUNIST and IT WAS COMMUNIST ALSO 62 YEARS AGO!

Mao Zedong. Without the Chinese confrontation with the US-led UN force, the war would not have stalled as it did, forcing a stalemate along the current border between north and south. From the perspective of lasting strategic impact, Mao made sure that the Koreas remained divided politally and ideologically, and gave North Korea the space it needed to become a somewhat difficult international player.

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It cost 54,000 American lives and $67 billion in expenditures. This unsuccessful war caused Americans to reject the Democratic Party in 1952 and to reelect Eisenhower. The war also increased fear of communist aggression and prompted a hunt for Americans who might be blamed for the communist gains.

Korea was splited in 1948; at that time it was split into South Korea and North Korea.

Resulting in the korean war to this very day... their technically still against each other.

Don't know if I could name 5, but I can name one at least. McArthur for first defeating the North Koreans, but then brining the Chinese into the war and causing us to lose all of our gains into North Korea. It might not have been a bad idea except the entire world was still exhausted from WWII and with both us and the Soviets having the bomb, the US did not want to risk another major war particuraly against communism.

dividing north and south Korea is the 38th paralel. There is no wall. Just a dimilitarized zone guarded by soldiers. Korean soldiers or roc soldiers as they are known, have the east corridor of the paralel to guard and the American soldiers have the western corridor to guard and patrol.

Going to war without declaring it. But the constitution wasn't written during the nuclear age...and the atomic age (nuclear age) is what caused the cold war...which Vietnam was part of. Translation: Times changed; the constitution didn't!

Japanese attacked Korea in 17 century because a crazy guy called Toyotomi Hideyoshi tried to take over ChoSeon(Ancient Korea),Ming,and India

It's so crazy and ridiculous

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The reason why Japan attacked (in the 19th to 20th century) was because Japan wanted man power and the food capablity Korea had. Not only did Japan want Korea but Russia and China also wanted power over Korea. At the late 19th century and almost the beginning of 20th century, Japan assassinated the Korean Princess and burned her to show that Japan was going to rule Korea from that point on. The Japanese occupation lasted til 1945 when Japan was pushed back to their homeland.

To this day, Japanese government officials deny this ever happend and argues that they will not apologize for what they have never done (which is untrue). The good thing is that the President of Japan apologized for the cause of world war 2 and the occupation of Korea which they had raped many women and children and used Men for their dirty works. I could talk about the cruelties of the Japanese occupation but that wouldn't be enough.

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I believe the first poster is referring to the Imjin War (1592-1598 Japanese Invasions of Korea). In this case, Japan under the leadership of Toyotomi Hideyoshi sought to conquer Korea, Manchuria, China, and India. At first, Hideyoshi only sought to conquer Ming China and requested passage through Korea to do so. However, Korea refused since they were close allies with Ming China. This led to the Japanese Invasions of Korea in which Korea, allied with Ming China, defeated the Japanese invading forces twice. Note that the first poster is also correct in saying that Toyotomi Hideyoshi was "crazy" because in the final part of the Imjin War, Hideyoshi did end up going insane.