Who won the korean war
When did the korean war start.
How did the korean war endNorth vs. South Korea
How the Kim Dynasty Took Over North Korea
“If the best minds in the world had set out to find us the worst possible location in the world to fight this damnable war,” U.S.
Secretary of State Dean Acheson (1893-1971) once said, “the unanimous choice would have been Korea.” The peninsula had landed in America’s lap almost by accident. Since the beginning of the 20th century, Korea had been a part of the Japanese empire, and after World War II it fell to the Americans and the Soviets to decide what should be done with their enemy’s imperial possessions.
In August 1945, two young aides at the State Department divided the Korean peninsula in half along the 38th parallel.
Korean war casualties
The Russians occupied the area north of the line and the United States occupied the area to its south.
Did you know? Unlike World War II and Vietnam, the Korean War did not get much media attention in the United States.
The most famous representation of the war in popular culture is the telev