THE KOREAN WAR
On 25 June 1950, just five years after the end of World War II, global peace was placed in jeopardy once again, when the Republic of Korea (commonly known as South Korea) was invaded from the north by over 100,000 troops from the Korean Peoples’ Army. The ensuing conflict was the Cold War’s first military action.
The East Asian nation of Korea had been a Japanese colony since 1910, but was divided into two occupational zones at the 38th Parallel following Japan’s unconditional surrender at the end
