National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day, observed on July 27th, is a time to remember the 50,000 American troops who died in the conflict, the over 100,000 wounded, and the thousands of prisoners of war.
Korea was, at one time, a united peninsula with no divisions between North Korea and South Korea.
Japanese forces colonized Korea in the early 20th century. When the Soviet Union declared war on Japan, it liberated the portion of the country that would become North Korea.
The war began on June 25, 1950, when the North Korean People’s Army crossed the 38th Parallel, which divides Korea into North and South.
U.S. forces in World War II withdrew to the 38th parallel. This set the stage for later Cold War tensions; the United States would be at odds with Russia in West Germany and Korea as a result of this division of the country.
The fall of the Berlin Wall was the symbolic end of the Cold War, at least Germany’s involvement in it as a divided nation. The Koreans would not be so fortunate.
The war ended on July 27, 1953 after the signing of the Armistice Agreement.
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