This time is for discuss about the Korean War . :D
The Korean War (Korean: 한국 전쟁),
from June 25, 1950 until July 27, 1953, was a conflict between North Korea and
South Korea.
Date
Full-scale: 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953
(3 years, 1 month and 2 days)
Low-level : 27 July 1953 – present
(3 years, 1 month and 2 days)
Low-level : 27 July 1953 – present
Status |
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Territorial changes :
Korean Demilitarized Zone established; both sides gained little border territory at the 38th parallel
Strength | |
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Current Total: 681,500 |
Total: 1,636,000 Note: The figures vary by source; peak unit strength varied during war. Current 1,106,000 |
This war is also called "war-mandated" (English proxy
war) between the United States and its UN allies and the communist People's
Republic of China and the Soviet Union (as well as members of the United
Nations). Participants major war is North Korea and South Korea. South Korea's
main ally, including the United States, Canada, Australia, and the United
Kingdom, although many other nations sent troops under the UN flag .
Although the United Nations received a lot of messages
telling you that North Korea will do an invasion, the UN rejected all of them.
Before the war, in early 1950, the CIA station officer Douglas mackiernan China
received intelligence forecasts China and North Korea, which predicts that the
army would attack North Korea to the South.
In the name of provocation South Korea, the North Korean
Army (North Korean soldiers) crossed the 38th parallel, assisted artillery fire
Sunday morning on June 25, 1950. North Korean army said that troops of the
Republic of Korea (ROK), under the leadership of "bandit traitor Syngman
Rhee ", had crossed the border" first ", and they would arrest
and execute Rhee. In previous years, the two Koreas have attacked each
other.
North Korea started the "Fatherland Liberation
War" by land and air invasion with 231,000 soldiers, who managed to
control objects and areas such as planned Kaesong, Chuncheon, Uijeongbu, and
Ongjin, which they get after deploying 274 tanks T-34- 85, 150 Yak fighters,
110 bombers, 200 artillery pieces, 78 Yak aircraft exercises, and 35 spy plane.
In addition to the invasion force, the North army has 114
fighters, 78 bombers, 105 T-34-85, and 30,000 troops based in North Korea. In the sea, although it only consists of several small warships, as well as a
battle considerable debate between the two.
On the other hand, the South Korean army is not yet ready.
In South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu (1998), RE Applebaum reported that
South Korean troops have a low level of combat readiness on June 25, 1950.
South Korean soldiers only had 98,000 soldiers (65,000 combat troops, 33,000
troops backers), do not have tanks, and 22 aircraft comprising 12 liaison
aircraft type and 10 AT6 training planes. Other than that no foreign troops
based in Korea at that time - despite the U.S. bases in Japan.
The situation in the Pusan Perimeter had turned; North
Korean soldiers and supplies were running low on people while in the Republic
of Korea forces have gained an additional weapons and ammunition. In order
to assist the defense in the Pusan Perimeter, General MacArthur recommended
an amphibious landing at Incheon, behind the lines North Korea's defense.
On 6 July, he ordered Major General Hobart Gay, commander of the First Cavalry
Division, to plan for the amphibious landing on July 12 to 14, First Cavalry
Division depart from Yokohama to help Invantri 24th Division.
IMPASSE (July 1951—July 1953)
Armistice negotiations continued for two years, at
Kaesong (southern North Korea), then at Panmunjon (the border of the two Koreas). The main problem of negotiation when it is repatriated prisoners of war. China, North Korea , and the UN troops could not make a deal because a lot
of Chinese and North Korean soldiers who refused to return to the North.
In a recent ceasefire agreement, the Repatriation Commission Neutral Nations
was formed to deal with the problem.
In 1952, the U.S. elected a new president, and on 29
November 1952, President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower flew to Korea to learn the
things that might end the Korean War. On July 27, 1953, a ceasefire
proposal of India approved by North Korea, China, and the UN troops so they
agreed to a ceasefire with the boundary parallel to-38. In a written agreement
that the parties involved in creating sebuaeh Korean Demilitarized Zone. UN
troops, backed by the United States, North Korea and China signed the Ceasefire
Agreement; South Korean President Syngman Rhee refused to sign the treaty, the
Republic of Korea therefore considered not participating in the agreement .
Aftermath Battle of Chosin: Operation Glory .
After the war, UN forces troops to bury the dead in the
cemetery while on Hŭngnam. With Operation Glory (July-November 1954), each
party exchanging bodies troops. 4167 The bodies of Army and Marine Corps by
13,528 dead soldiers exchanged China and North Korea. A total of 546 civilians
were killed in the UN POW camp handed over to the government of South Korea. After Operation Glory, 416 "unknown soldier" was buried in the
Punchbowl Cemetery, Hawaii.
END THE WAR
This war ended on July 27, 1953 when the United States,
China, and North Korea signed a cease-fire agreement. South Korean President
Syngman Rhee, refused to sign it but promised to respect the ceasefire
agreement. But officially, the war is not over until now.