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About The Korean War (All of the below is quoted out of Wikipedia) |
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"The term Korean War refers to the warfare between North Korea (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, DPRK) and South Korea (Republic of Korea, ROK) begun 25 June 1950 and paused with an armistice signed 27 July 1953.
The war occurred consequent to both countries aggressively attempting Korean national–peninsular reunification under their respective governments — because they occupied the immediate months before open warfare with escalating skirmishes and raids at the 38th Parallel border, and the failed all-Korea elections in 1948. The negotiations ceased when North Korea invaded South Korea on 25 June 1950. The United States and the United Nations intervened for the South. After a rapid UN counter-offensive reversing the initial North Korean invasion, the People's Republic of China (PRC) intervened for North Korea — deciding the war towards an armistice that approximately restored the original border between the Koreas. Since then, North Korea unilaterally withdrew from the armistice on 27 May 2009.
Although a civil war gone awry, other geopolitical factors counted; an external power sponsored each Korea, thus international political obligations facilitated a civil war's metamorphosing into an hegemonic proxy war of the Russo–American Cold War (1945–91); moreover, Korean War also denotes the skirmishes before and since the war."
Source For All Of The Above: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
NOTE: Although Wikipedia is a site where anyone can edit the page, I have never had an issue with it and like the way it presents material. To read the Full document on Wikipedia, click here.
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