28 Facts About Korean War

Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953.

The United Nations Security Council denounced the North Korean War move as an invasion and authorized the formation of the United Nations Command and the dispatch of forces to Korea to repel it.

Korean War was among the most destructive conflicts of the modern era, with approximately 3 million war fatalities and a larger proportional civilian death toll than World War II or the Vietnam War.

From 1919 to 1925 and beyond, Korean communists led internal and external warfare against the Japanese.

Korean War noted that he was "faced with the scarcity of US forces immediately available, and time and space factors, which would make it difficult to reach very far north, before Soviet troops could enter the area".

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The Soviet authorities and the Korean War Communists refused to co-operate on the grounds it would not be fair, and many South Korean War politicians boycotted it.

Resultant South Korean War government promulgated a national political constitution on 17 July 1948, and elected Syngman Rhee as President on 20 July 1948.

Serious border clashes between South and North continued on 4 August 1949, when thousands of North Korean War troops attacked South Korean War troops occupying territory north of the 38th Parallel.

Meanwhile, counterinsurgency efforts in the South Korean War interior intensified; persistent operations, paired with worsening weather conditions, eventually denied the guerrillas sanctuary and wore away their fighting strength.

Soviet generals with extensive combat experience from the Second World Korean War were sent to North Korea as the Soviet Advisory Group.

Kim was concerned that South Korean War agents had learned about the plans and that South Korean War forces were strengthening their defenses.

Battle of Osan, the first significant US engagement of the Korean War, involved the 540-soldier Task Force Smith, which was a small forward element of the 24th Infantry Division which had been flown in from Japan.

Korean War further concluded that, although half of those forces might cross south, "if the Chinese tried to get down to Pyongyang, there would be the greatest slaughter" without air force protection.

Korean War believed that whether to use nuclear weapons should be his decision, not the President's.

On 30 March 2013, North Korea stated that it entered a "state of war" with South Korea and declared that "The long-standing situation of the Korean peninsula being neither at peace nor at war is finally over".

The first four months of the Korean War, that is, the war prior to the Chinese intervention, were by far the bloodiest per day for the US forces as they engaged and destroyed the comparatively well-equipped KPA in intense fighting.

Korean War consequently received much of the blame for the initial setbacks in Korea and the widespread reports of ill-equipped and inadequately trained US military forces in the war's early stages.

The last sea battle of the Korean War occurred days before the Battle of Incheon; the ROK ship PC-703 sank a North Korean minelayer in the Battle of Haeju Island, near Incheon.

Korean War was the first in which jet aircraft played the central role in air combat.

Korean War marked a major milestone not only for fixed-wing aircraft, but for rotorcraft, featuring the first large-scale deployment of helicopters for medical evacuation .

Korean War proposed that MacArthur announce that the UN would employ the firebombing methods that "brought Japan to its knees".

In November 1950, the North Korean War leadership instructed their population to build dugouts and mud huts and to dig tunnels, in order to solve the acute housing problem.

On 28 June 1950, North Korean War troops committed the Seoul National University Hospital massacre.

Korean War says it's "perhaps the most forgotten part of a forgotten war".

Unpreparedness of US POWs to resist heavy communist indoctrination during the Korean War led to the Code of the United States Fighting Force which governs how US military personnel in combat should act when they must "evade capture, resist while a prisoner or escape from the enemy".

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However, since 1994, South Korean War POWs have been escaping North Korea on their own after decades of captivity.

The South Korean War government estimates 500 South Korean War POWs continue to be detained in North Korea.

Mao Zedong's decision to take on the United States in the Korean War was a direct attempt to confront what the Communist bloc viewed as the strongest anti-Communist power in the world, undertaken at a time when the Chinese Communist regime was still consolidating its own power after winning the Chinese Civil War.