conflict between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives. The war reached international proportions in June 1950 when North Korea, supplied...

The Korean War (1950–1953) was a civil struggle that originated in the division of Korea after World War II, and entered into a phase of conventional war on 25 June 1950, when North Korean forces crossed the dividing line and invaded the South....

Although it produced no antiwar movement, the Korean War (1950–1953) was an unpopular and difficult conflict for the American people. This limited war, which...

The Korean peninsula had been dominated to a greater or lesser extent by China for 2,000 years, and particularly between the 13th and 19th centuries, after which, following a short period of independence, it was annexed by Japan in 1910. After the...

(1950–53) Conflict arising after the post-World War II division of Korea, at latitude 38° N, into North Korea and South Korea. At the end of World War II, Soviet forces accepted the surrender of Japanese forces north of that line, as U.S....

In its narrowest sense, the Korean War was an escalation of a civil war between two rival Korean regimes, each of which was supported by external powers, with each trying to topple the other through political and guerilla tactics.[14] After failing to...