The United Nations forces and the South Koreans quickly drove the North Koreans back into North Korea. With the arrival of United Nations forces in South Korea with the Inchon Invasion, the tide of the war quickly turned against the North Koreans.

The American troops, as well as those from other countries, were hoping to protect South Korea from communism and thus were participating in the Koreans’ war. Technically, these people are right from the American perspective, yet North and South Korea were clearly engaged in a war. In this undated photo from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency, distributed by Korea News Service, North Korean combatants plunge together with the tank unit in Seoul during the Korean War.īecause of this and because the United States never formally declared war on North Korea, many people contend that the Korean War should be called the Korean Conflict rather than referred to as a war. Although many of the soldiers sent to South Korea were members of the United States military, they were under the direct control of the United Nations. The United Nations granted permission to the United States to send troops to the two Koreas to free South Korea from North Korea’s military occupation. Determined to stop North Korea, the United States sought permission from the United Nations to support the South Korean government military. With North Korea’s invasion of South Korea, the United States feared the spread of communism. By invading South Korea, North Korea hoped to reunite the two nations as a single country under communism. After the war, Korea became two countries.

Prior to World War II’s conclusion, North and South Korea had been a single country known as Korea. This conflict began on June 25, 1950, when North Korea, a communist nation, invaded South Korea. The Korean War was one of several military conflicts that occurred during the Cold War, as the United States and its allies attempted to stop the spread of communism. With her brother on her back, a war-weary Korean girl trudges by a stalled M-26 tank, at Haengju, Korea.

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