We have got a task in school to write about a war. I chose to write about The Korean War.
The Korean War was a war between South Korea aided by United State of America (USA) United Nation (UN), and North Korea aided by People's Republic of China (PRC) and Soviet Union. Korea was under Japanese rule until Second World War ended. After Japan had been defeated, was Korea divided into South- and North Korea. American troops occupied the south half, while Soviet occupied the north. USA did not want Korea to be communistic, while Soviet Union wanted Korea to be. Stalin the leader of Soviet Union encouraged the North Korean leader Kim Il-sung to attack South Korea.
25. June 1950 crossed North Korean troops the 38th degree border between North- and South Korea. USA and UN then went immediately to help South Korea. 28. June was the North Korean troops already at the South Korean capital Seoul. By the start of September, was the South Korean troops already been driven to Pusan, which is a city in south-east part of South Korea. Some days later came American reinforcement, and they were able to drive back the North Korean troops to the North Korean Capital Pyongyang. After some months fighting around the Korean border, entered the first Chinese troops the war in November 1950. The winter came and many of the American troops froze to death, as they hadn't prepared for the winter. China also had huge losses, since their leader Mao Zedong didn't care much about losing some of his troops.
General Douglas MacArthur wanted to stop the Chinese progressing with nuclear weapons. President of USA Harry S. Truman declined the proposal, and after MacArthur went out with strong criticism, was he degraded from Commander. Mars 1951 USA and UK agree to limit UN's help to only make South Korea independent. 10. July 1951 was the first Armistice negotiations started, and on 27. July 1953 was an agreement signed.
Around 778,000 losses were on South Korea, USA and UN's side, while around 1,300,000 losses were on the communist side. Total losses were around 2,500,000.
27. May 2009, declared North Korea that they wouldn't abide the cease-fire armistice any longer. South Korea has declared that they had high defense prepared to keep the peace. On November 23. 2009, fired North Korea artillery on the South Korean Island Yeonpyeong. Two civilians and two military personnel were killed.
Sources:
http://snl.no/Koreakrigen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War 7-9-11 19:00
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