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Korean war
The Korean War was a military
conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United
Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, supported by the
People's Republic of China and the Soviet
Union. The war began on 25 June 1950 and an armistice was
signed on 27 July 1953.
The war was a result of the political
division of Korea by agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War.
The Korean peninsula had been ruled by Japan prior to the end of the
war; in 1945 following the surrender of Japan, the peninsula was divided by
American administrators along the 38th parallel, with United States troops
occupying the southern part and Soviet troops occupying the northern part.[31]
The failure to hold free elections throughout the Korean Peninsula in 1948 deepened
the division between the two sides, and the 38th Parallel increasingly became a
political border between the two Koreas. Although reunification negotiations
continued in the months preceding the war, tension intensified. Cross-border
skirmishes and raids at the 38th Parallel persisted. The situation escalated
into open warfare when the North Korean forces invaded South Korea on June 25,
1950.[32]
It was the first significant armed conflict of the Cold War.[33]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_war
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