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Korean War
At the end of World War II, the winning Allied authorities did not know what to do with the Korean region. Korea had been a Japanese society in the late 19th century. Therefore Westerners supposed the country was unable of autonomy.
In the end of 1949, US armed mission and the Lisinman Ministry of National Defense basically finished provisions for the outbreak on the DPRK.
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US military intervention in the Korean War
Truman then decides to bring the containment policy to Asia. He seized the United Nations (UN) on the very day of the invasion. The United Nations Security Council, a sort of UN “government” boycotted by the Soviet delegate, severely condemns North Korean aggression. The United States, at the head of a powerful UN-flagged expeditionary force, landed in September 1950 in western Korea, near the city of Inchon.
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Truman orders U.S. military intervention in Korea,
On June 27, 1950, President Harry S. Truman declares that he is ordering American air and naval forces to Southern Korea to support the self-governing nation in rejecting an invasion by collectivist North Korea. In 1947, the US and Great Britain known as r free elections in Korea, however the Soviets declined to comply.
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UN Security Council
The UN Security Council adopts a resolution approving the use of US UN forces in Korea and recommends voluntarily supporting these actions by UN member states in accordance with Article 106 of the UN Charter. The Soviet Union could not veto this resolution, since it had been absent from the Security Council since January 1950 to protest China's representation at the UN by the Kuomintang regime. What was it? -
The capture of Seoul by North Korean troops
The long-suffering city passed from hand to hand four times during the three years of the war. One can imagine what was left of him by the end of the war. The northerners expected that the fall of Seoul would be tantamount to the South Korean army's surrender. However, the Republic of Korea's leadership managed to evacuate, the encirclement and end of the war did not work.
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The landing of the UN forces in Incheon
By this time, the South Korean army and UN forces controlled only a small area of the country's territory around Busan, the so-called Busan bridgehead. However, they managed to hold the bridgehead and accumulate forces for the counteroffensive, timed to coincide with the landing in Incheon. B
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Pyongyang falls to UN forces
Pyongyang troops managed to control Seoul in three days. A multinational UN contingent, made up mainly of US soldiers, traveled to help South Korea but were driven back to the extreme south, an area that became known as the Pusan perimeter.
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The parties began negotiations for peace.
In July 1951, the parties began negotiations for peace. Despite the start of negotiations, hostilities continued. A large-scale air war broke out in the air, in which the US Air Force and Air Force played the main role from the South, and the Soviet 64th Fighter Air Corps from the North.
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Chinese and North Korean forces had reoccupied Seoul
Chinese and North Korean forces had reoccupied Seoul. Over the next several months, the opponents tried to push each other away, but neither side achieved decisive success. In July 1951, the front stabilized at approximately 38th parallel, i.e. approximately where hostilities began on June 25, 1950. The war acquired a positional character.
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MacArthur declares "There is no substitute for victory"
As you pointed out, we have to win. There is no substitute for victory. In March, secret interceptions of diplomatic dispatches by the United States revealed clandestine conversations in which General MacArthur expressed confidence to the Spanish and Portuguese embassies in Tokyo that he would succeed in extending the Korean War into a conflict in Tokyo. https://www.quoteikon.com/there-is-no-substitute-for-victory.html -
Ceasefire agreement
India submitted a proposal for a ceasefire, which the UN accepted. The southern coalition was represented by General Clarke since the representatives of South Korea refused to sign the document. The front line remained in the area of the 38th parallel, and around it, the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) was proclaimed.
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The Korean War could then have turned into a nuclear war
The American commander-in-chief, General MacArthur (1880 - 1964), then considered the use of atomic weapons against China. This extreme proposal illustrates the liveliness of the tensions created by the confrontation between the two "blocs". General MacArthur's position sparked a worldwide wave of terror. Truman falls under his command, fearing the outbreak of a Third World War.
https://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/how-korean-war-almost-went-nuclear-180955324/
