Korean War 1

Korean War
The Korean War (25 June 1950 - armistice signed 27 July 1953[1] ) was a military conflict between the Republic of
Korea, supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, supported by the People's
Republic of China (PRC), with military material aid from the Soviet Union. The war was a result of the physical
division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World
War II.
The Korean peninsula was ruled by Japan from 1910 until the end of World War II. Following the surrender of Japan
in 1945, American administrators divided the peninsula along the 38th Parallel, with United States troops occupying
the southern part and Soviet troops occupying the northern part.[2]
The failure to hold free elections throughout the Korean Peninsula in 1948 deepened the division between the two
sides, and the North established a Communist government. The 38th Parallel increasingly became a political border
between the two Koreas. Although reunification negotiations continued in the months preceding the war, tension
intensified. Cross-border skirmishes and raids at the 38th Parallel persisted. The situation escalated into open warfare
when North Korean forces invaded South Korea on 25 June 1950.[3] It was the first significant armed conflict of the
Cold War.[4]
The United Nations, particularly the United States, came to the aid of South Korea in repelling the invasion. A rapid
UN counter-offensive drove the North Koreans past the 38th Parallel and almost to the Yalu River, and the People's
Republic of China (PRC) entered the war on the side of the North.[3] The Chinese launched a counter-offensive that
pushed the United Nations forces back across the 38th Parallel. The Soviet Union materially aided the North Korean
and Chinese armies. In 1953, the war ceased with an armistice that restored the border between the Koreas near the
38th Parallel and created the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), a 2.5-mile (4.0 km) wide buffer zone between the
two Koreas. Minor outbreaks of fighting continue to the present day.
With both North and South Korea sponsored by external powers, the Korean War was a proxy war. From a military
science perspective, it combined strategies and tactics of World War I and World War II: it began with a mobile
campaign of swift infantry attacks followed by air bombing raids, but became a static trench war by July 1951.

Background

Etymology
In the United States, the war was initially described by President Harry S. Truman as a "police action" as it was
conducted under the auspices of the United Nations.[5] Colloquially, it has been referred to in the United States as
The Forgotten War or The Unknown War. The issues concerned were much less clear than in previous and
subsequent conflicts, such as World War II and the Vietnam War.[6] [7] To a significant degree, the war has been
"historically overshadowed by World War II and Vietnam".[8]
In South Korea the war is usually referred to as "625" or the 6–2–5 War (yook-ee-oh junjeng), reflecting the date of
its commencement on 25 June. In North Korea the war is officially referred to as the Fatherland Liberation War
(Choguk haebang chǒnjaeng). Alternately, it is called the Chosǒn chǒnjaeng ("Chosǒn war", Chosǒn being what
North Koreans call Korea).[9] In the People's Republic of China the war is called the War to Resist U.S. Aggression
and Aid Korea (traditional Chinese: 抗美援朝戰爭; simplified Chinese: 抗美援朝战争; pinyin: Kàngměiyuáncháo
zhànzhēng).[10] [11] The "Korean War" (朝鮮戰爭/朝鲜战争; pinyin: Cháoxiǎn zhànzhēng) is more commonly used
today. Chao Xian is a general term for Korea.
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Japanese rule (1910–1945)

Upon defeating the Qing Dynasty in the First Sino-Japanese War (1894–96), the Empire of Japan occupied the
Korean Empire (1897–1910) of Emperor Gojong—a peninsula strategic to its sphere of influence.[12] A decade later,
defeating Imperial Russia in the Russo-Japanese War (1904–05), Japan made Korea its protectorate with the Eulsa
Treaty in 1905, then annexed it with the Japan–Korea Annexation Treaty in 1910.[13] [14]
Korean nationalists and the intelligentsia fled the country, and some founded the Provisional Korean Government in
1919, which was headed by Syngman Rhee in Shanghai. This government-in-exile was recognized by few countries.
From 1919 to 1925 and beyond, Korean communists led and were the primary agents of internal and external
warfare against the Japanese.[12] :23[15]
Korea under Japanese rule was considered to be part of the Empire of Japan as an industrialized colony along with
Taiwan, and both were part of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. In 1937, the colonial Governor–General,
General Jirō Minami, commanded the attempted cultural assimilation of Korea's 23.5 million people by banning the
use and study of Korean language, literature, and culture, to be replaced with that of mandatory use and study of
their Japanese counterparts. Starting in 1939, the populace was required to use Japanese names under the
Sōshi-kaimei policy. In 1938, the Colonial Government established labor conscription.
In China, the National Revolutionary Army and the Communist People's Liberation Army helped organize refugee
Korean patriots and independence fighters against the Japanese military, which had also occupied parts of China.
The Nationalist-backed Koreans, led by Yi Pom-Sok, fought in the Burma Campaign (December 1941 – August
1945). The Communists, led by Kim Il-sung, fought the Japanese in Korea and Manchuria.
During World War II, the Japanese used Korea's food, livestock, and metals for their war effort. Japanese forces in
Korea increased from 46,000 soldiers in 1941 to 300,000 in 1945. Japanese Korea conscripted 2.6 million forced
laborers controlled with a collaborationist Korean police force; some 723,000 people were sent to work in the
overseas empire and in metropolitan Japan. By 1942, Korean men were being conscripted into the Imperial Japanese
Army. By January 1945, Koreans comprised 32% of Japan's labor force. In August 1945, when the United States
dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, around 25% of those killed were Koreans.[15] At the end of the
war, other world powers did not recognize Japanese rule in Korea and Taiwan.
Meanwhile, at the Cairo Conference (November 1943), Nationalist China, the United Kingdom, and the United
States decided "in due course Korea shall become free and independent".[16] Later, the Yalta Conference (February
1945) granted to the Soviet Union European "buffer zones"—satellite states accountable to Moscow—as well as an
expected Soviet pre-eminence in China and Manchuria,[17] in return for joining the Allied Pacific War effort against
Japan.[17]

Soviet invasion of Manchuria (1945)

Toward the end of World War II, as per a US-Soviet agreement, the USSR declared war against Japan on 9 August
1945.[15] [18] By 10 August, the Red Army occupied the northern part of the Korean peninsula as agreed, and on 26
August halted at the 38th parallel for three weeks to await the arrival of US forces in the south.[12] :25[12] :24
On 10 August 1945, with the 15 August Japanese surrender near, the Americans doubted whether the Soviets would
honor their part of the Joint Commission, the US-sponsored Korean occupation agreement. A month earlier, Colonel
Dean Rusk and Colonel Charles H. Bonesteel III divided the Korean peninsula at the 38th parallel after hurriedly
deciding (in thirty minutes) that the US Korean Zone of Occupation had to have a minimum of two ports.[19] [20] [21]
[22] [23]

Explaining why the occupation zone demarcation was positioned at the 38th parallel, Rusk observed, "even though it
was further north than could be realistically reached by US forces, in the event of Soviet disagreement ... we felt it
important to include the capital of Korea in the area of responsibility of American troops", especially when "faced
with the scarcity of US forces immediately available, and time and space factors, which would make it difficult to
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reach very far north, before Soviet troops could enter the area."[17] The Soviets agreed to the US occupation zone
demarcation to improve their negotiating position regarding the occupation zones in Eastern Europe, and because
each would accept Japanese surrender where they stood.[12] :25

Chinese Civil War (1945–1949)

After the end of Second Sino-Japanese War, the Chinese Civil War resumed between the Chinese Communists and
the Chinese Nationalists. While the Communists were struggling for supremacy in Manchuria, they were supported
by the North Korean government with materiel and manpower.[24] According to Chinese sources, the North Koreans
donated 2,000 railway cars worth of material while thousands of Korean "volunteers" served in the Chinese People's
Liberation Army (PLA) during the war.[25] North Korea also provided the Chinese Communists in Manchuria with a
safe refuge for non-combatants and communications with the rest of China.[24]
The North Korean contributions to the Chinese Communist victory were not forgotten after the creation of the
People's Republic of China in 1949. As a token of gratitude, between 50,000 to 70,000 Korean veterans that served
in the PLA were sent back along with their weapons, and they would later play a significant role in the initial
invasion of South Korea.[24] China promised to support the North Koreans in the event of a war against South
Korea.[26] The Chinese support created a deep division between the Korean Communists, and Kim Il-Sung's
authority within the Communist party was challenged by the Chinese faction led by Pak Il-yu, who was later purged
by Kim.[27]
After the formation of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the Chinese government named the Western nations,
led by the United States, as the biggest threat to its national security.[28] Basing this judgment on China's century of
humiliation beginning in the early 19th century,[29] American support for the Nationalists during the Chinese Civil
War,[30] and the ideological struggles between revolutionaries and reactionaries,[31] the Chinese leadership believed
that China would become a critical battleground in the United States' crusade against Communism.[32] As a
countermeasure and to elevate China's standing among the worldwide Communist movements, the Chinese
leadership adopted a foreign policy that actively promoted Communist revolutions throughout territories on China's
periphery.[33]

Korea divided (1945–1949)

At the Potsdam Conference (July–August 1945), the Allies unilaterally decided to divide Korea—without consulting
the Koreans—in contradiction of the Cairo Conference.[12] :24[20] :24–5[34] :25[35]
On 8 September 1945, Lt. Gen. John R. Hodge of the United States arrived in Incheon to accept the Japanese
surrender south of the 38th parallel.[20] Appointed as military governor, General Hodge directly controlled South
Korea via the United States Army Military Government in Korea (USAMGIK 1945–48).[36] :63 He established
control by restoring to power the key Japanese colonial administrators and their Korean police collaborators.[4] The
USAMGIK refused to recognise the provisional government of the short-lived People's Republic of Korea (PRK)
because he suspected it was communist. These policies, voiding popular Korean sovereignty, provoked civil
insurrections and guerrilla warfare.[13] On 3 September 1945, Lieutenant General Yoshio Kozuki, Commander,
Japanese Seventeenth Area Army, contacted Hodge, telling him that the Soviets were south of the 38th parallel at
Kaesong. Hodge trusted the accuracy of the Japanese Army report.[20]
In December 1945, Korea was administered by a US–USSR Joint Commission, as agreed at the Moscow Conference
(1945). The Koreans were excluded from the talks. The commission decided the country would become independent
after a five-year trusteeship action facilitated by each régime sharing its sponsor's ideology.[12] :25–6[37] The Korean
populace revolted; in the south, some protested, and some rose in arms;[13] to contain them, the USAMGIK banned
strikes on 8 December 1945 and outlawed the PRK Revolutionary Government and the PRK People's Committees on
12 December 1945.
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On 23 September 1946 an 8,000-strong railroad worker strike began in Pusan. Civil disorder spread throughout the
country in what became known as the Autumn uprising. On 1 October 1946, Korean police killed three students in
the Daegu Uprising; protesters counter-attacked, killing 38 policemen. On 3 October, some 10,000 people attacked
the Yeongcheon police station, killing three policemen and injuring some 40 more; elsewhere, some 20 landlords
and pro-Japanese South Korean officials were killed.[38] The USAMGIK declared martial law.
The right-wing Representative Democratic Council, led by nationalist Syngman Rhee, opposed the Soviet–American
trusteeship of Korea, arguing that after 35 years (1910–45) of Japanese colonial rule most Koreans opposed another
foreign occupation. The USAMGIK decided to forego the five year trusteeship agreed upon in Moscow, given the 31
March 1948 United Nations election deadline to achieve an anti-communist civil government in the US Korean Zone
of Occupation.
On 3 April what began as a demonstration commemorating Korean resistance to Japanese rule ended with the Jeju
massacre of as many as 60,000 citizens by South Korean soldiers.[39]
On 10 May, South Korea convoked their first national general elections that the Soviets first opposed, then
boycotted, insisting that the US honor the trusteeship agreed to at the Moscow Conference.[12] :26[40] [41] [42]
North Korea held parliamentary elections three months later on 25 August 1948.[43]
The resultant anti-communist South Korean government promulgated a national political constitution on 17 July
1948, elected a president, the American-educated strongman Syngman Rhee on 20 July 1948. The elections were
marred by terrorism and sabotage resulting in 600 deaths.[44] The Republic of Korea (South Korea) was established
on 15 August 1948.[45] In the Russian Korean Zone of Occupation, the USSR established a Communist North
Korean government[12] :26 led by Kim Il-sung.[46] President Rhee's régime expelled communists and leftists from
southern national politics. Disenfranchised, they headed for the hills, to prepare for guerrilla war against the
US-sponsored ROK Government.[46]
As nationalists, both Syngman Rhee and Kim Il-Sung were intent upon reunifying Korea under their own political
system.[12] :27 With Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong fighting over the control of the Korean Peninsula,[47] the North
Koreans gained support from both the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. They escalated the continual
border skirmishes and raids and then prepared to invade. South Korea, with limited matériel, could not match
them.[12] :27 During this era, at the beginning of the Cold War, the US government assumed that all communists,
regardless of nationality, were controlled or directly influenced by Moscow; thus the US portrayed the civil war in
Korea as a Soviet hegemonic maneuver.[48]
In October 1948, South Korean left-wing soldiers rebelled against the government's harsh clampdown in April on
Jeju island in the Yeosu-Suncheon Rebellion.[49]
The Soviet Union withdrew as agreed from Korea in 1948. U.S. troops withdrew from Korea in 1949, leaving the
South Korean army relatively ill-equipped. On 24 December 1949, South Korean forces killed 86 to 88 people in the
Mungyeong massacre and blamed the crime on communist marauding bands.[50]
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Course of the war

The conflict begins (June 1950)

After the US missions had left the People's Republic of China, CIA
China station officer Douglas Mackiernan volunteered to remain and
conduct spy operations. Afterward, he and a team of indigenous
personnel then escaped China in a months-long horse trek across the
Himalaya mountains; he was killed within miles of Lhasa. His team
delivered the intelligence to headquarters that invasion was imminent.
Thirteen days later, the North Korean People's Army (KPA) crossed
the 38th parallel border and invaded South Korea. Mackiernan was
posthumously awarded the CIA Intelligence Star for valor.[51]

Under the guise of counter-attacking a South Korean provocation raid,

the KPA crossed the 38th parallel behind artillery fire at dawn on
Sunday 25 June 1950.[12] :14 The KPA said that Republic of Korea
Army (ROK Army) troops, under command of the régime of the
"bandit traitor Syngman Rhee", had crossed the border first, and that
they would arrest and execute Rhee.[20] Both Korean armies had
continually harassed each other with skirmishes and each continually
staged raids across the 38th parallel border.

On 27 June, Rhee evacuated from Seoul with government officials.

Rhee ordered the Bodo League massacre, which started on 28 June.[52]
Territory often changed hands early in the war,
On 28 June, South Korea bombed the bridge across the Han River to
until the front stabilized.
stop the North Korean army.[53]
Early on in the fighting, South Korea put its forces under the authority
of the United Nations Command (Korea).

Factors in US intervention

The Truman Administration was caught at a crossroads. Before the

invasion, Korea was not included in the strategic Asian Defense
Perimeter outlined by Secretary of State Acheson.[54] Military
strategists were more concerned with the security of Europe against the
Soviet Union than East Asia. At the same time, the Administration was
worried that a war in Korea could quickly widen into another world This sketch by war artist Kim Seong-hwan, titled
Near Donam Bridge, depicts refugees fleeing
war should the Chinese or Soviets decide to get involved as well.
Seoul in June 1950 during the early days of the
One facet of the changing attitude toward Korea and whether to get Korean War.

involved was Japan. Especially after the fall of China to the

Communists, "…Japan itself increasingly appeared as the major East Asian prize to be protected".[54] US East Asian
experts saw Japan as the critical counterweight to the Soviet Union and China in the region. While there was no
United States policy that dealt with South Korea directly as a national interest, its proximity to Japan pushed South
Korea to the fore. "The recognition that the security of Japan required a non-hostile Korea led directly to President
Truman’s decision to intervene…The essential point…is that the American response to the North Korean attack
stemmed from considerations of US policy toward Japan" ".[54] The United States wanted to shore up Japan to make
it a viable counterweight against the Soviet Union and China, and Korea was seen as integral to that end.
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The other important part of committing to intervention lay in speculation about Soviet action in the event that the
United States intervene. The Truman administration was fretful that a war in Korea was a diversionary assault that
would escalate to a general war in Europe once the US committed in Korea. At the same time, "[t]here was no
suggestion from anyone that the United Nations or the United States could back away from [the conflict]" ".[55] In
Truman’s mind, this aggression, if left unchecked, would start a chain reaction that would destroy the United Nations
and give the go ahead to further Communist aggression elsewhere. Korea was where a stand had to be made, the
difficult part was how. The UN Security council approved the use of force to help the South Koreans and the US
immediately began using air and naval forces in the area to that end. The Administration still refrained from
committing on the ground because some advisors believed the North Koreans could be stopped by air and naval
power alone.[55] Also, it was still uncertain if this was a clever ploy by the Soviet Union to catch the US unawares or
just a test of US resolve. The decision to commit ground troops and to intervene eventually became viable when a
communiqué was received on June 27 from the Soviet Union that alluded it would not move against US forces in
Korea. "This opened the way for the sending of American ground forces, for it now seemed less likely that a general
war—with Korea as a preliminary diversion—was imminent".[55] With the Soviet Union’s tacit agreement that this
would not cause an escalation, the United States now could intervene with confidence that other commitments would
not be jeopardized.

United Nations Security Council Resolutions

On 25 June 1950, the United Nations Security Council unanimously condemned the North Korean invasion of the
Republic of Korea, with United Nations Security Council Resolution 82. The USSR, a veto-wielding power, had
boycotted the Council meetings since January 1950, protesting that the Republic of China (Taiwan), not the People's
Republic of China, held a permanent seat in the UN Security Council.[56] After debating the matter, the Security
Council, on 27 June 1950, published Resolution 83 recommending member states yield military assistance to the
Republic of Korea. On 27 June President Truman ordered US air and sea forces to help the South Korean régime. On
4 July the Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister accused the US of starting armed intervention on behalf of South
Korea.[57]
The USSR challenged the legitimacy of the war for several reasons. The ROK Army intelligence upon which
Resolution 83 was based came from US Intelligence; North Korea was not invited as a sitting temporary member of
the UN, which violated UN Charter Article 32; and the Korean conflict was beyond UN Charter scope, because the
initial north–south border fighting was classed as a civil war. The Soviet representative boycotted the UN to prevent
Security Council action, and to challenge the legitimacy of the UN action; legal scholars posited that deciding upon
an action of this type required the unanimous vote of the five permanent members.[58] [59]

Comparison of military forces

The North Korean Army launched the "Fatherland Liberation War" with a comprehensive air–land invasion using
231,000 soldiers, who captured scheduled objectives and territory, among them Kaesong, Chuncheon, Uijeongbu,
and Ongjin. Their forces included 274 T-34-85 tanks, some 150 Yak fighters, 110 attack bombers, 200 artillery
pieces, 78 Yak trainers, and 35 reconnaissance aircraft.[20] In addition to the invasion force, the North Korean KPA
had 114 fighters, 78 bombers, 105 T-34-85 tanks, and some 30,000 soldiers stationed in reserve in North Korea.[20]
Although each navy consisted of only several small warships, the North Korean and South Korean navies fought in
the war as sea-borne artillery for their in-country armies.
In contrast, the ROK Army defenders were vastly unprepared, and the political establishment in the south, while well
aware of the threat to the north, were unable to convince American administrators of the reality of the threat. In
South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu (1961), R.E. Appleman reports the ROK forces' low combat readiness as of
25 June 1950. The ROK Army had 98,000 soldiers (65,000 combat, 33,000 support), no tanks (they had been
requested from the US military, but requests were denied), and a 22–piece air force comprising 12 liaison-type and
10 AT6 advanced-trainer airplanes. There were no large foreign military garrisons in Korea at invasion time, but
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there were large US garrisons and air forces in Japan.[20]

Within days of the invasion, masses of ROK Army soldiers—of dubious loyalty to the Syngman Rhee régime—were
either retreating southwards or were defecting en masse to the northern side, the KPA.[12] :23

United Nations response (July – August 1950)

Despite the rapid post–Second World War Allied demobilizations,
there were substantial US forces occupying Japan; under General
Douglas MacArthur's command, they could be made ready to fight the
North Koreans.[12] :42 Only the British Commonwealth had comparable
forces in the area.
On Saturday, 24 June 1950, US Secretary of State Dean Acheson
informed President Truman by telephone, "Mr. President, I have very
serious news. The North Koreans have invaded South Korea."[60] [61]
Truman and Acheson discussed a US invasion response with defense
A US howitzer position near the Kum River, July
department principals, who agreed that the United States was obligated
15.
to repel military aggression, paralleling it with Adolf Hitler's 1930s
aggressions, and said that the mistake of appeasement must not be
repeated.[62] In his autobiography, President Truman acknowledged
that fighting the invasion was essential to the American goal of the
global containment of communism as outlined in the National Security
Council Report 68 (NSC-68) (declassified in 1975):

"Communism was acting in Korea, just as Hitler,

Mussolini and the Japanese had ten, fifteen, and twenty
years earlier. I felt certain that if South Korea was allowed
to fall Communist leaders would be emboldened to
override nations closer to our own shores. If the
Communists were permitted to force their way into the Korean civilians pass an M-46 tank

Republic of Korea without opposition from the free world,

no small nation would have the courage to resist threat and
aggression by stronger Communist neighbors."[63]

President Truman announced that the US would counter "unprovoked

aggression" and "vigorously support the effort of the [UN] security
council to terminate this serious breach of peace."[61] In Congress, the
Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Omar Bradley warned against
appeasement, saying that Korea was the place "for drawing the line"
against communist expansion. In August 1950, the President and the
Secretary of State obtained the consent of Congress to appropriate $12
billion to pay for the military expenses.[61] A GI comforts a grieving infantryman.

Per State Secretary Acheson's recommendation, President Truman

ordered General MacArthur to transfer materiel to the Army of the Republic of Korea while giving air cover to the
evacuation of US nationals. The President disagreed with advisors who recommended unilateral US bombing of the
North Korean forces, and ordered the US Seventh Fleet to protect the Republic of China (Taiwan), whose Nationalist
Government asked to fight in Korea. The US denied the Nationalist Chinese request for combat, lest it provoke a
communist Chinese retaliation.[64]
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The Battle of Osan, the first significant engagement of the Korean War, involved the 540-soldier Task Force Smith,
which was a small forward element of the 24th Infantry Division.[12] :45 On 5 July 1950, Task Force Smith attacked
the North Koreans at Osan but without weapons capable of destroying the North Koreans' tanks. They were
unsuccessful; the result was 180 dead, wounded, or taken prisoner. The KPA progressed southwards, pushing back
the US force at Pyongtaek, Chonan, and Chochiwon, forcing the 24th Division's retreat to Taejeon, which the KPA
captured in the Battle of Taejon;[12] :48 the 24th Division suffered 3,602 dead and wounded and 2,962 captured,
including the Division's Commander, Major General William F. Dean.[12] :48 Overhead, the KPAF shot down 18
USAF fighters and 29 bombers; the USAF shot down five KPAF fighters.
By August, the KPA had pushed back the ROK Army and the Eighth United States Army to the vicinity of Pusan, in
southeast Korea.[12] :53 In their southward advance, the KPA purged the Republic of Korea's intelligentsia by killing
civil servants and intellectuals.[12] :56 On 20 August, General MacArthur warned North Korean leader Kim Il-Sung
that he was responsible for the KPA's atrocities.[12] [45] :56 By September, the UN Command controlled only the
Pusan city perimeter, about 10% of Korea, in a line partially defined by the Nakdong River.

Escalation (August – September 1950)

In the resulting Battle of Pusan Perimeter (August–September 1950),
the US Army withstood KPA attacks meant to capture the city at the
Naktong Bulge, P'ohang-dong, and Taegu. The United States Air Force
interrupted KPA logistics with 40 daily ground support sorties that
destroyed 32 bridges, halting most daytime road and rail traffic. KPA
forces were forced to hide in tunnels by day and move only at night.[12]
:47–48[12] :66
To deny materiel to the KPA, the USAF destroyed
logistics depots, petroleum refineries, and harbors, while the US Navy
air forces attacked transport hubs. Consequently, the over-extended
The USAF attacking railroads south of Wonsan KPA could not be supplied throughout the south.[12] :58
on the eastern coast of North Korea.
Meanwhile, US garrisons in Japan continually dispatched soldiers and
materiel to reinforce defenders in the Pusan Perimeter.[12] :59–60 Tank battalions deployed to Korea directly from the
United States mainland via the port of San Francisco. By late August, the Pusan Perimeter had some 500 medium
tanks battle ready.[12] :61 In early September 1950, ROK Army and UN Command forces outnumbered the KPA
180,000 to 100,000 soldiers. The UN forces, once prepared, counterattacked and broke out of the Pusan
Perimeter.[12] [20] :61
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Battle of Inchon (September 1950)

Against the rested and re-armed Pusan Perimeter defenders and their
reinforcements, the KPA were undermanned and poorly supplied;
unlike the UN Command, they lacked naval and air support.[12] : 58, 61
To relieve the Pusan Perimeter, General MacArthur recommended an
amphibious landing at Inchon, well over 100 miles behind the KPA
lines.[12] :67 On 6 July, he ordered Major General Hobart R. Gay,
Commander, 1st Cavalry Division, to plan the division's amphibious
landing at Incheon; on 12–14 July, the 1st Cavalry Division embarked
from Yokohama, Japan to reinforce the 24th Infantry Division inside
the Pusan Perimeter.[65]
General Douglas MacArthur, UN Command CiC
Soon after the war began, General MacArthur had begun planning a (seated), observes the naval shelling of Incheon
from the USS Mt. McKinley, 15 September 1950.
landing at Incheon, but the Pentagon opposed him.[12] :67 When
authorized, he activated a combined United States Army, United States
Marine Corps, and ROK Army force. The X Corps, led by General Edward Almond, Commander, consisted of
40,000 men of the 1st Marine Division, the 7th Infantry Division and around 8,600 ROK Army soldiers.[12] :68 By
the 15 September attack date, the amphibious assault force faced few KPA defenders at Incheon: military
intelligence, psychological warfare, guerrilla reconnaissance, and protracted bombardment facilitated a relatively
light battle. However, the bombardment destroyed most of the city of Incheon.[12] :70

After the Incheon landing the 1st Cavalry Division began its northward advance from the Pusan Perimeter. "Task
Force Lynch"—3rd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, and two 70th Tank Battalion units (Charlie Company and the
Intelligence–Reconnaissance Platoon)— effected the "Pusan Perimeter Breakout" through 106.4 miles (171.2 km) of
enemy territory to join the 7th Infantry Division at Osan.[65] The X Corps rapidly defeated the KPA defenders
around Seoul, thus threatening to trap the main KPA force in Southern Korea.[12] :71–2 The almost-isolated KPA
troops rapidly retreated north, but only 25,000 to 30,000 soldiers managed to reach the Northern KPA lines.[66] [67]

UN forces cross partition line (September – October 1950)

On September 27, MacArthur received the top secret National Security
Council Memorandum 81/1 from Truman reminding him that
operations north of the 38th parallel were authorized only if "at the
time of such operation there was no entry into North Korea by major
Soviet or Chinese Communist forces, no announcements of intended
entry, nor a threat to counter our operations militarily..." On September
30, Defense Secretary George Marshall sent an eyes-only message to
MacArthur: "We want you to feel unhampered tactically and
strategically to proceed north of the 38th parallel."[68]
Combat in the streets of Seoul
By 1 October 1950, the UN Command repelled the KPA northwards,
past the 38th parallel; the ROK Army crossed after them, into North
Korea.[12] :79–94 Six days later, on 7 October, with UN authorization, the UN Command forces followed the ROK
forces northwards.[12] :81 The X Corps landed at Wonsan (in southeastern North Korea) and Riwon (in northeastern
North Korea), already captured by ROK forces.[12] :87–8 The Eighth United States Army and the ROK Army drove
up western Korea and captured Pyongyang city, the North Korean capital, on 19 October 1950.[12] :90 The 187th
Airborne Regimental Combat Team ("Rakkasans") made their first of the only two combat jumps during the Korean

War on October 20, 1950 at Sunchon and Sukchon, North Korea. The missions of the 187th were to cut the road
north going to China, preventing North Korean leaders from escaping from Pyongyang; and to rescue American
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prisoners of war. At month's end, UN forces held 135,000 KPA prisoners of war.
Taking advantage of the UN Command's strategic momentum against the communists, General MacArthur believed
it necessary to extend the Korean War into China to destroy depots supplying the North Korean war effort. President
Truman disagreed, and ordered caution at the Sino-Korean border.[12] :83

China intervenes (October – December 1950)

On 27 June 1950, two days after the KPA invaded and three months
before the Chinese entered the war, President Truman dispatched the
United States Seventh Fleet to the Taiwan Strait, to protect the
Nationalist Republic of China (Taiwan) from the People's Republic of
China (PRC).[69] On 4 August 1950, with the PRC invasion of Taiwan
aborted, Mao Zedong reported to the Politburo that he would intervene
in Korea when the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) Taiwan invasion
force was reorganized into the PLA North East Frontier Force.
Chinese forces cross the Yalu River, 19 October
On 20 August 1950, Premier Zhou Enlai informed the United Nations 1950
that "Korea is China's neighbor... The Chinese people cannot but be
concerned about a solution of the Korean question". Thus, via neutral-country diplomats, China warned that in
safeguarding Chinese national security, they would intervene against the UN Command in Korea.[12] :83 President
Truman interpreted the communication as "a bald attempt to blackmail the UN", and dismissed it.[70] The Politburo
authorized Chinese intervention in Korea on 2 October 1950, the day after the ROK Army crossed the 38th
parallel.[71] Later, the Chinese claimed that US bombers had violated PRC national airspace while en route to bomb
North Korea, before China intervened.[72]

In September 1950, in Moscow, PRC Premier Zhou Enlai added diplomatic and personal force to Mao's cables to
Stalin, requesting military assistance and materiel. Stalin delayed; Mao rescheduled launching the war from the 13th
to the 19th of October 1950.[73] The USSR limited their assistance to air support north of the Yalu River. Mao did
not find this especially useful as the fighting was going to take place on the south side of the Yalu.[74] Soviet
shipments of materiel were limited to small quantities of trucks, grenades, machine guns, and the like.[75]
On 8 October 1950, Mao Zedong redesignated the PLA North East Frontier Force as the Chinese People's Volunteer
Army (PVA),[76] who were to fight the "War to Resist America and Aid Korea" under the command of Marshal Peng
Dehuai.
UN aerial reconnaissance had difficulty sighting PVA units in daytime,
because their march and bivouac discipline minimized aerial
detection.[12] :102 The PVA marched "dark-to-dark" (19:00–03:00), and
aerial camouflage (concealing soldiers, pack animals, and equipment)
was deployed by 05:30. Meanwhile, daylight advance parties scouted
for the next bivouac site. During daylight activity or marching, soldiers
were to remain motionless if an aircraft appeared, until it flew
away;[12] :102 PVA officers were under order to shoot security
violators. Such battlefield discipline allowed a three-division army to
march the 286 miles (460 km) from An-tung, Manchuria to the combat A column of the U.S. 1st Marine Division move
zone in some 19 days. Another division night-marched a circuitous through Chinese lines during their breakout from
mountain route, averaging 18 miles (29 km) daily for 18 days.[20] the Chosin Reservoir.

Meanwhile, on 10 October 1950, the 89th Tank Battalion was attached to the 1st Cavalry Division, increasing the
armor available for the Northern Offensive. On 15 October, after moderate KPA resistance, the 7th Cavalry
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Regiment and Charlie Company, 70th Tank Battalion captured Namchonjam city. On 17 October, they flanked
rightwards, away from the principal road (to Pyongyang), to capture Hwangju. Two days later, the 1st Cavalry
Division captured Pyongyang, the North's capital city, on 19 October 1950.
On 15 October 1950, President Truman and General MacArthur met at Wake Island in the mid-Pacific Ocean. This
meeting was much publicized because of the General's discourteous refusal to meet the President on the continental
US.[12] :88 To President Truman, MacArthur speculated there was little risk of Chinese intervention in Korea,[12] :89
and that the PRC's opportunity for aiding the KPA had lapsed. He believed the PRC had some 300,000 soldiers in
Manchuria, and some 100,000–125,000 soldiers at the Yalu River. He further concluded that, although half of those
forces might cross south, "if the Chinese tried to get down to Pyongyang, there would be the greatest slaughter"
without air force protection.[66] [77]
After secretly crossing the Yalu River on 19 October,
the PVA 13th Army Group launched the First Phase
Offensive on 25 October, attacking the advancing UN
forces near the Sino-Korean border. After decimating
the ROK II Corps at the Battle of Onjong, the first
confrontation between Chinese and US military
occurred on 1 November 1950; deep in North Korea,
thousands of soldiers from the PVA 39th Army
encircled and attacked the US 8th Cavalry Regiment
with three-prong assaults—from the north, northwest,
and west—and overran the defensive position flanks in
the Battle of Unsan.[78] The surprise assault resulted in
the UN forces retreating back to the Ch'ongch'on River,
while the Chinese unexpectedly disappeared into
mountain hideouts following victory. It is unclear why
the Chinese did not press the attack and follow-up their
Map of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir
victory.

The UN Command, however, were unconvinced that the Chinese had openly intervened due to the sudden Chinese
withdrawal. On 24 November, the Home-by-Christmas Offensive was launched with the US Eighth Army
advancing in northwest Korea, while the US X Corps were attacking along the Korean east coast. But the Chinese
were waiting in ambush with their Second Phase Offensive.
On 25 November at the Korean western front, the PVA 13th Army Group attacked and over-ran the ROK II Corps at
the Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River, and then decimated the US 2nd Infantry Division on the UN forces' right
flank.[12] :98–9 The UN Command retreated; the US Eighth Army's retreat (the longest in US Army history)[79] was
made possible because of the Turkish Brigade's successful, but very costly, rear-guard delaying action near Kunuri
that slowed the PVA attack for two days (27–9 November). On 27 November at the Korean eastern front, a US 7th
Infantry Division Regimental Combat Team (3,000 soldiers) and the US 1st Marine Division (12,000–15,000
marines) were unprepared for the PVA 9th Army Group's three-pronged encirclement tactics at the Battle of Chosin
Reservoir, but they managed to escape under Air Force and X Corps support fire—albeit with some 15,000
collective casualties.[80]
By 30 November, the PVA 13th Army Group managed to expel the US Eighth Army from northwest Korea.
Retreating from the north faster than they had counter-invaded, the Eighth Army crossed the 38th parallel border in
mid December.[81] : 160 The UN morale hit rock bottom when commanding General Walton Walker of the US Eighth
Army was killed on 23 December 1950 in an automobile accident.[12] :111 In the northeast Korea by 11 December,
the US X Corps managed to cripple[82] the PVA 9th Army Group while establishing a defensive perimeter at the port
city of Hungnam. They were forced to evacuate by 24 December in order to reinforce the badly depleted US Eighth
Korean War 12

Army to the south.[12] :104–11[81] :158

During the Hungnam evacuation, about 193 shiploads of UN
Command forces and materiel (approximately 105,000 soldiers, 98,000
civilians, 17,500 vehicles, and 350,000 tons of supplies) were
evacuated to Pusan.[12] :110 The SS Meredith Victory was noted for
evacuating 14,000 refugees, the largest rescue operation by a single
ship, even though it was designed to hold only 12 passengers. Before
escaping, the UN Command forces razed most of Hungnam city,
especially the port facilities;[66] [83] and on 16 December 1950,
President Truman declared a national emergency with Presidential US infantry light machine gun position, 20
Proclamation No. 2914, 3 C.F.R. 99 (1953),[84] which remained in November 1950

force until 14 September 1978.[85]

Fighting around the 38th parallel (January – June 1951)

With Lieutenant-General Matthew Ridgway assuming the command of the US Eighth Army on 26 December, the
PVA and the KPA launched their Third Phase Offensive (also known as the "Chinese New Year's Offensive") on
New Year's Eve of 1951. Utilizing night attacks in which UN Command fighting positions were encircled and then
assaulted by numerically superior troops who had the element of surprise. The attacks were accompanied by loud
trumpets and gongs, which fulfilled the double purpose of facilitating tactical communication and mentally
disorienting the enemy. UN forces initially had no familiarity with this tactic, and as a result some soldiers "bugged
out," abandoning their weapons and retreating to the south.[12] :117 The Chinese New Year's Offensive overwhelmed
UN forces, allowing the PVA and KPA to conquer Seoul for the second time on 4 January 1951.
These setbacks prompted General MacArthur to consider using nuclear
weapons against the Chinese or North Korean interiors, intending
radioactive fallout zones would interrupt the Chinese supply chains.[86]
However, upon the arrival of the charismatic General Ridgway, the
esprit de corps of the bloodied Eighth Army immediately began to
revive.[12] :113

UN forces retreated to Suwon in the west, Wonju in the center, and the
territory north of Samcheok in the east, where the battlefront stabilized
and held.[12] :117 The PVA had outrun its logistics capability and thus
was forced to recoil from pressing the attack beyond Seoul;[12] :118 B-26 Invaders bomb logistics depots in Wonsan,
North Korea, 1951
food, ammunition, and materiel were carried nightly, on foot and
bicycle, from the border at the Yalu River to the three battle lines. In
late January, upon finding that the PVA had abandoned their battle lines, General Ridgway ordered a
reconnaissance-in-force, which became Operation Roundup (5 February 1951)[12] :121. A full-scale X Corps advance
gradually proceeded while fully exploiting the UN Command's air superiority,[12] :120 concluded with the UN
reaching the Han River and recapturing Wonju near Seoul.[12] :121

In mid-February, the PVA counterattacked with the Fourth Phase Offensive and achieved initial victory at
Hoengseong. But the offensive was soon blunted by the IX Corps positions at Chipyong-ni in the center.[12] :121
Units of the US 2nd Infantry Division and the French Battalion fought a short but desperate battle that broke the
attack's momentum.[12] :121 The battle is sometimes known as the Gettysburg of the Korean War. The battle saw
5,600 Korean, American and French defeat a numerically superior Chinese force. Surrounded on all sides, the US
2nd Infantry Division Warrior Division’s 23rd Regimental Combat Team with an attached French Battalion was
hemmed in by more than 25,000 Chinese Communist Forces. United Nations Forces had previously retreated in the
face of large Communist forces instead of getting cut off, but this time they stood and fought. The allies fought at
Korean War 13

odds of roughly 15 to 1.[87]

In the last two weeks of February 1951, Operation Roundup was followed by Operation Killer, carried out by the
revitalized Eighth Army. It was a full-scale, battlefront-length attack staged for maximum exploitation of firepower
to kill as many KPA and PVA troops as possible.[12] :121 Operation Killer concluded with I Corps re-occupying the
territory south of the Han River, and IX Corps capturing Hoengseong.[12] :122 On 7 March 1951, the Eighth Army
attacked with Operation Ripper, expelling the PVA and the KPA from Seoul on 14 March 1951. This was the city's
fourth conquest in a years' time, leaving it a ruin; the 1.5 million pre-war population was down to 200,000, and
people were suffering from severe food shortages.[12] :122[67]
On 11 April 1951, Commander-in-Chief Truman relieved the
controversial General MacArthur, the Supreme Commander in
Korea.[12] :123–127 There were several reasons for the dismissal.
MacArthur had crossed the 38th parallel in the mistaken belief that the
Chinese would not enter the war, leading to major allied losses. He
believed that whether or not to use nuclear weapons should be his own
decision, not the President's.[88] :69 MacArthur threatened to destroy
China unless it surrendered. While MacArthur felt total victory was the
only honorable outcome, Truman was more pessimistic about his
Chinese soldiers surender to Australians, 24 April
chances once involved in a land war in Asia, and felt a truce and
1951.
orderly withdrawal from Korea could be a valid solution.[89]
MacArthur was the subject of congressional hearings in May and June
1951, which determined that he had defied the orders of the President and thus had violated the US Constitution.[88]
:79
A popular criticism of MacArthur was that he never spent a night in Korea, and directed the war from the safety
of Tokyo.[90]

General Ridgway was appointed Supreme Commander, Korea; he regrouped the UN forces for successful
counterattacks,[12] :127 while General James Van Fleet assumed command of the US Eighth Army.[12] :130 Further
attacks slowly depleated the PVA and KPA forces; Operations Courageous (23–28 March 1951) and Tomahawk (23
March 1951) were a joint ground and airborne infilltration meant to trap Chinese forces between Kaesong and Seoul.
UN forces advanced to "Line Kansas", north of the 38th parallel.[12] :131 The 187th Airborne Regimental Combat
Team ("Rakkasans") second of two combat jumps were on Easter Sunday, 1951 at Munsan-ni, South Korea
codenamed Operation Tomahawk. The mission was to get behind Chinese forces and block their movement north.
The 60th Indian Parachute Field Ambulance provided the medical cover for the operations, dropping an ADS and a
surgical team and treating over 400 battle casualties apart from the civilian casualties that formed the core of their
objective as the unit was on a humanitarian mission.
The Chinese counterattacked in April 1951, with the Fifth Phase Offensive (also known as the "Chinese Spring
Offensive") with three field armies (approximately 700,000 men).[12] :131[12] :132 The offensive's first thrust fell upon
I Corps, which fiercely resisted in the Battle of the Imjin River (22–25 April 1951) and the Battle of Kapyong
(22–25 April 1951), blunting the impetus of the offensive, which was halted at the "No-name Line" north of
Seoul.[12] :133–134 On 15 May 1951, the Chinese commenced the second impulse of the Spring Offensive and
attacked the ROK Army and the US X Corps in the east. After initial success, they were halted by 20 May.[12]
:136–137
At month's end, the US Eighth Army counterattacked and regained "Line Kansas", just north of the 38th
[12] :137–138
parallel. The UN's "Line Kansas" halt and subsequent offensive action stand-down began the stalemate
that lasted until the armistice of 1953.
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Stalemate (July 1951 – July 1953)

For the remainder of the Korean War the UN Command and the PVA
fought, but exchanged little territory; the stalemate held. Large-scale
bombing of North Korea continued, and protracted armistice
negotiations began 10 July 1951 at Kaesong.[12] :175–7[12] :145 Combat
continued while the belligerents negotiated; the UN Command forces'
goal was to recapture all of South Korea to avoid losing territory.[12]
:159
The PVA and the KPA attempted similar operations, and later
effected military and psychological operations in order to test the UN
Command's resolve to continue the war. American flame thrower units advancing toward
a tunnel entrance.
The principal battles of the stalemate include the Battle of Bloody
Ridge (18 August – 15 September 1951),[12] :160 the Battle of
Heartbreak Ridge (13 September – 15 October 1951),[12] :161–2 the
Battle of Old Baldy (26 June – 4 August 1952), the Battle of White
Horse (6–15 October 1952), the Battle of Triangle Hill (14 October –
25 November 1952), the Battle of Hill Eerie (21 March – 21 June
1952), the sieges of Outpost Harry (10–8 June 1953), the Battle of the
Hook (28–9 May 1953) and the Battle of Pork Chop Hill (23 March –
16 July 1953).

Armistice (July 1953 – November 1954)

ROK soldiers dump spent artillery casings.
The on again, off again armistice negotiations continued for two
years,[12] :144–53 first at Kaesong (southern North Korea), then
relocated at Panmunjom (bordering the Koreas).[12] :147 A major, problematic negotiation point was prisoner of war
(POW) repatriation.[12] :187–99 The PVA, KPA, and UN Command could not agree on a system of repatriation
because many PVA and KPA soldiers refused to be repatriated back to the north,[91] which was unacceptable to the
Chinese and North Koreans.[12] :189–90 In the final armistice agreement, a Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission
was set up to handle the matter.[12] :242–5[92]

In 1952 the US elected a new president, and on 29 November 1952, the president-elect, Dwight D. Eisenhower, went
to Korea to learn what might end the Korean War.[12] :240 With the United Nations' acceptance of India's proposed
Korean War armistice, the KPA, the PVA, and the UN Command ceased fire with the battle line approximately at
the 38th parallel. Upon agreeing to the armistice, the belligerents established the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ),
which has since been patrolled by the KPA and ROKA, US, and Joint UN Commands.
The Demilitarized Zone runs northeast of the 38th parallel; to the south, it travels west. The old Korean capital city
of Kaesong, site of the armistice negotiations, originally lay in the pre-war ROK, but now is in the DPRK. The
United Nations Command, supported by the United States, the North Korean Korean People's Army, and the Chinese
People's Volunteers, signed the Armistice Agreement on 27 July 1953 to end the fighting. The Armistice also called
upon the governments of South Korea, North Korea, China and the United States to participate in continued peace
talks. For his part, ROK President Rhee attacked the peace proceedings.[93] The war is considered to have ended at
this point, even though there was no peace treaty.[1]
After the war, Operation Glory (July–November 1954) was conducted to allow combatant countries to exchange
their dead. The remains of 4,167 US Army and US Marine Corps dead were exchanged for 13,528 KPA and PVA
dead, and 546 civilians dead in UN prisoner-of-war camps were delivered to the ROK government.[94] After
Operation Glory, 416 Korean War unknown soldiers were buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
(The Punchbowl), on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO)
Korean War 15

records indicate that the PRC and the DPRK transmitted 1,394 names, of which 858 were correct. From 4,167
containers of returned remains, forensic examination identified 4,219 individuals. Of these, 2,944 were identified as
American, and all but 416 were identified by name.[95] From 1996 to 2006, the DPRK recovered 220 remains near
the Sino-Korean border.[96]

Division of Korea (1954–present)

Since the Armistice of 1953, there have been many incursions and acts of aggression from North Korea across the
border, most notably the Axe murder incident of 1976. Four infiltration tunnels leading to Seoul have been
uncovered. In 2010, North Korea fired artillery shells on Yeonpyeong island, killing two military personnel and two
civilians.[97]

Characteristics

Casualties
According to the data from the US Department of Defense, the United States had suffered 33,686 battle deaths, along
with 2,830 non-battle deaths during the Korean War and 8,176 missing in action.[98] Western sources estimate the
PVA had suffered between 100,000 to 1,500,000 deaths (most estimate some 400,000 killed), while the KPA had
suffered between 214,000 to 520,000 deaths (most estimate some 500,000). Between some 245,000 to 415,000 South
Korean civilian deaths were also suggested, and the entire civilian casualty during the war were estimated from
1,500,000 to 3,000,000 (most sources estimate some 2,000,000 killed).[99]
Data from official Chinese sources, on the other hand, reported that the PVA had suffered 114,000 battle deaths,
34,000 non-battle deaths, 340,000 wounded, 7,600 missing and 21,400 captured during the war. Among those
captured, about 14,000 defected to Taiwan while the other 7,110 were repatriated to China.[100] Chinese sources also
reported that North Korea had suffered 290,000 casualties, 90,000 captured and a "large" number of civilian
deaths.[100] In return, the Chinese and North Koreans estimated that about 390,000 soldiers from United States,
660,000 soldiers from South Korea and 29,000 other UN soldiers were "eliminated" from the battlefield.[100]

Armored warfare
Initially, North Korean armor dominated the battlefield with Soviet
T-34-85 medium tanks designed during the Second World War.[101]
The KPA's tanks confronted a tankless ROK Army armed with few
modern anti-tank weapons,[12] :39 including American World War
II–model 2.36-inch (60 mm) M9 bazookas, effective only against the
45 mm side armor of the T-34-85 tank.[88] :25 The US forces arriving in
Korea were equipped with light M24 Chaffee tanks (on occupation
duty in nearby Japan) that also proved ineffective against the heavier
KPA T-34 tanks.[88] :18
Supporting the 8th ROK Army Division, a During the initial hours of warfare, some under-equipped ROK Army
Sherman tank fires its 76 mm gun at KPA
border units used American 105 mm howitzers as anti-tank guns to
bunkers at "Napalm Ridge", Korea, 11 May 1952.
stop the tanks heading the KPA columns, firing high-explosive
anti-tank ammunition (HEAT) over open sights to good effect; at the
war's start, the ROK Army had 91 howitzers, but lost most to the invaders.[102]
Countering the initial combat imbalance, the UN Command reinforcement materiel included heavier US M4
Sherman, M26 Pershing, M46 Patton, and British Cromwell and Centurion tanks that proved effective against North
Korean armor, ending its battlefield dominance.[12] :182–184 Unlike in the Second World War (1939–45), in which
Korean War 16

the tank proved a decisive weapon, the Korean War featured few large-scale tank battles. The mountainous, heavily
forested terrain prevented large masses of tanks from maneuvering. In Korea, tanks served largely as infantry support
and mobile artillery pieces.

Aerial warfare
The Korean War was the first war in which jet aircraft played a central
role. Once-formidable fighters such as the P-51 Mustang, F4U Corsair,
and Hawker Sea Fury[12] :174—all piston-engined, propeller-driven,
and designed during World War II—relinquished their air superiority
roles to a new generation of faster, jet-powered fighters arriving in the
theater. For the initial months of the war, the P-80 Shooting Star, F9F
Panther, and other jets under the UN flag dominated North Korea's
prop-driven air force of Soviet Yakovlev Yak-9 and Lavochkin La-9s.
The balance would shift with the arrival of the swept wing Soviet
MiG-15 Fagot.[12] :182[103] MiG Alley: A MiG-15 shot down by an F-86
Sabre
The Chinese intervention in late October 1950 bolstered the Korean
People's Air Force (KPAF) of North Korea with the MiG-15 Fagot,
one of the world's most advanced jet fighters.[12] :182[104] The fast,
heavily armed MiG outflew first-generation UN jets such as the
American F-80 and Australian and British Gloster Meteors, posing a
real threat to B-29 Superfortress bombers even under fighter
escort.[104] Soviet Air Force pilots flew missions for the North to learn
the West's aerial combat techniques. This direct Soviet participation is
a casus belli that the UN Command deliberately overlooked, lest the
war for the Korean peninsula expand, as the US initially feared, to
include three communist countries—North Korea, the Soviet Union,
and China—and so escalate to atomic warfare.[12] :182[105]

The United States Air Force (USAF) moved quickly to counter the
MiG-15, with three squadrons of its most capable fighter, the F-86
Sabre, arriving in December 1950.[12] :183[106] Although the MiG's
higher service ceiling—50000 feet (15000 m) vs. 42000 feet
(13000 m)—could be advantageous at the start of a dogfight, in level The KPAF shot down some 16 B-29
Superfortress bombers in the war.
flight, both swept wing designs attained comparable maximum speeds
of around 660 mph (1100 km/h). The MiG climbed faster, but the
Sabre turned and dived better.[107] The MiG was armed with one
37 mm and two 23 mm cannons, while the Sabre carried six .50 caliber
(12.7 mm) machine guns aimed with radar-ranged gunsights.

By early 1951, the battle lines were established and changed little until
1953. In summer and autumn 1951, the outnumbered Sabres of the
USAF's 4th Fighter Interceptor Wing—only 44 at one
point—continued seeking battle in MiG Alley, where the Yalu River
marks the Chinese border, against Chinese and North Korean air forces
capable of deploying some 500 aircraft. Following Colonel Harrison
A US Navy Sikorsky H-19 Chickasaw flying near
the USS Sicily
Korean War 17

Thyng's communication with the Pentagon, the 51st Fighter-Interceptor Wing finally reinforced the beleaguered 4th
Wing in December 1951; for the next year-and-a-half stretch of the war, aerial warfare continued.[108]
UN forces gradually gained air superiority in the Korean theater. This was decisive for the UN: first, for attacking
into the peninsular north, and second, for resisting the Chinese intervention.[12] :182–184 North Korea and China also
had jet-powered air forces; their limited training and experience made it strategically untenable to lose them against
the better-trained UN air forces. Thus, the US and USSR fed materiel to the war, battling by proxy and finding
themselves virtually matched, technologically, when the USAF deployed the F-86F against the MiG-15 late in 1952.
After the war, and to the present day, the USAF reports an F-86 Sabre kill ratio in excess of 10:1, with 792 MiG-15s
and 108 other aircraft shot down by Sabres, and 78 Sabres lost to enemy fire; .[109] An uncited alternative source
claims only 379 Sabre kills. The Soviet Air Force reported some 1,100 air-to-air victories and 335 MiG combat
losses, while China's People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) reported 231 combat losses, mostly MiG-15s,
and 168 other aircraft lost. The KPAF reported no data, but the UN Command estimates some 200 KPAF aircraft
lost in the war's first stage, and 70 additional aircraft after the Chinese intervention. The USAF disputes Soviet and
Chinese claims of 650 and 211 downed F-86s, respectively, as more recent US figures state only 230 losses out of
674 F-86s deployed to Korea.[110] The differing tactical roles of the F-86 and MiG-15 may have contributed to the
disparity in losses: MiG-15s primarily targeted B-29 bombers and ground-attack fighter-bombers, while F-86s
targeted the MiGs.
The Korean War marked a major milestone not only for fixed-wing aircraft, but also for rotorcraft, featuring the first
large-scale deployment of helicopters for medical evacuation (medevac).[111] [112] In 1944-1945, during the Second
World War, the YR-4 helicopter saw limited ambulance duty, but in Korea, where rough terrain trumped the jeep as
a speedy medevac vehicle,[113] helicopters like the Sikorsky H-19 helped reduce fatal casualties to a dramatic degree
when combined with complementary medical innovations such as Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals.[114] [115] The
limitations of jet aircraft for close air support highlighted the helicopter's potential in the role, leading to
development of the AH-1 Cobra and other helicopter gunships used in the Vietnam War (1965–75).[111]

Bombing North Korea

On 12 August 1950 the USAF dropped 625 tons of bombs on North Korea; two weeks later, the daily tonnage
increased to some 800 tons.[116] Bruce Cummings, a historian at the University of Chicago, has said that U.S.
warplanes dropped more napalm and bombs on North Korea than they did during the whole pacific campaign of
WW2.[117]
As a result, eighteen of North Korea's cities were more than 50% destroyed. The war's highest-ranking American
POW, US Major General William F. Dean,[118] reported that most of the North Korean cities and villages he saw
were either ruins or snow-covered wastelands.[119]
As well as conventional bombing, the Communist side claimed that the USA had used biological weapons.
Korean War 18

Naval warfare
Because neither Korea's navies were large, the Korean War featured
few naval battles; mostly the combatant navies served as naval artillery
for their in-country armies. A skirmish between North Korea and the
UN Command occurred on 2 July 1950; the US Navy cruiser USS
Juneau, the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Jamaica, and the frigate HMS
Black Swan fought four North Korean torpedo boats and two mortar
gunboats, and sank them.

During most of the war, the UN navies patrolled the west and east
coasts of North Korea and sank supply and ammunition ships to deny
To disrupt North Korean communications, the
the sea to North Korea. Aside from very occasional gunfire from North USS Missouri fires a salvo from its 16-inch guns
Korean shore batteries, the most threat to US and UN navy ships were at shore targets near Chongjin, North Korea, 21
from magnetic mines the North Koreans employed for defensive October 1950

purposes.
The USS Juneau sank ammunition ships that had been present in her previous battle. The last sea battle of the
Korean War occurred at Inchon, days before the Battle of Incheon; the ROK ship PC 703 sank a North Korean mine
layer in the Battle of Haeju Island, near Inchon. Three other supply ships were sunk by PC-703 two days later in the
Yellow Sea.[38]

U.S. threat of atomic warfare

On 5 April 1950, the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) issued orders for the retaliatory atomic bombing of Manchurian
PRC military bases, if either their armies crossed into Korea or if PRC or KPA bombers attacked Korea from there.
The President ordered the transfer of nine Mark 4 nuclear bombs "to the Air Force's Ninth Bomb Group, the
designated carrier of the weapons ... [and] signed an order to use them against Chinese and Korean targets", which he
never transmitted.[120]
President Truman did not immediately threaten nuclear warfare after the October 1950 Chinese intervention, but, 45
days later, remarked about the possibility of using it after the PVA repelled the UN Command from North Korea.
In The Origins of the Korean War (1981, 1990), US historian Bruce Cumings reports that in a 30 November 1950
press conference, President Truman's allusions to attacking the KPA with nuclear weapons "was a threat based on
contingency planning to use the bomb, rather than the faux pas so many assumed it to be." On 30 November 1950,
the USAF Strategic Air Command was ordered to "augment its capacities, and that this should include atomic
capabilities."
The Indian Ambassador, Kavalam Panikkar, reports "that Truman announced that he was thinking of using the atom
bomb in Korea. But the Chinese seemed totally unmoved by this threat ... The propaganda against American
aggression was stepped up. The 'Aid Korea to resist America' campaign was made the slogan for increased
production, greater national integration, and more rigid control over anti-national activities. One could not help
feeling that Truman's threat came in very useful to the leaders of the Revolution, to enable them to keep up the
tempo of their activities."[66] [121] [122]
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President Truman remarked that his government was actively considering using
the atomic bomb to end the war in Korea but that only he—the US
President—commanded atomic bomb use, and that he had not given
authorization. The matter of atomic warfare was solely a US decision, not the
collective decision of the UN. Truman met on 4 December 1950 with UK prime
minister and Commonwealth spokesman Clement Attlee, French Premier René
Pleven, and Foreign Minister Robert Schuman to discuss their worries about
atomic warfare and its likely continental expansion. The US's forgoing atomic
warfare was not because of "a disinclination by the USSR and PRC to escalate"
the Korean War, but because UN allies—notably from the UK, the
Commonwealth, and France—were concerned about a geopolitical imbalance Atom bomb test, 1951
rendering NATO defenseless while the US fought China, who then might
persuade the USSR to conquer Western Europe.[66] [123]

On 6 December 1950, after the Chinese intervention repelled the UN Command armies from northern North Korea,
General J. Lawton Collins (Army Chief of Staff), General MacArthur, Admiral C. Turner Joy, General George E.
Stratemeyer, and staff officers Major General Doyle Hickey, Major General Charles A. Willoughby, and Major
General Edwin K. Wright, met in Tokyo to plan strategy countering the Chinese intervention; they considered three
potential atomic warfare scenarios encompassinging the next weeks and months of warfare.[66]
• In the first scenario: If the PVA continued attacking in full and the UN Command is forbidden to blockade and
bomb China, and without Nationalist Chinese reinforcements, and without an increase in US forces until April
1951 (four National Guard divisions were due to arrive), then atomic bombs might be used in North Korea.[66]
• In the second scenario: If the PVA continued full attacks and the UN Command have blockaded China and have
effective aerial reconnaissance and bombing of the Chinese interior, and the Nationalist Chinese soldiers are
maximally exploited, and tactical atomic bombing is to hand, then the UN forces could hold positions deep in
North Korea.[66]
• In the third scenario: if the PRC agreed to not cross the 38th parallel border, General MacArthur recommended
UN acceptance of an armistice disallowing PVA and KPA troops south of the parallel, and requiring PVA and
KPA guerrillas to withdraw northwards. The US Eighth Army would remain to protect the Seoul–Incheon area,
while X Corps would retreat to Pusan. A UN commission should supervise implementation of the armistice.[66]
In 1951, the US escalated closest to atomic warfare in Korea. Because the PRC had deployed new armies to the
Sino-Korean frontier, pit crews at the Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, assembled atomic bombs for Korean warfare,
"lacking only the essential pit nuclear cores." In October 1951, the US effected Operation Hudson Harbor to
establish nuclear weapons capability. USAF B-29 bombers practised individual bombing runs from Okinawa to
North Korea (using dummy nuclear or conventional bombs), coordinated from Yokota Air Base in east-central
Japan. Hudson Harbor tested "actual functioning of all activities which would be involved in an atomic strike,
including weapons assembly and testing, leading, ground control of bomb aiming". The bombing run data indicated
that atomic bombs would be tactically ineffective against massed infantry, because the "timely identification of large
masses of enemy troops was extremely rare."[124] [125] [126] [127] [128]
Korean War 20

War crimes

Civilian deaths and massacres

In occupied areas, North Korean Army political officers purged South

Korean society of its intelligentsia by assassinating every educated
person—academic, governmental, religious—who might lead
resistance against the North; the purges continued during the NPA
retreat.[129] Immediately after the invasion in June 1950 the South
Korean Government ordered the nation-wide "pre-emptive
apprehension" of politically suspect or disloyal citizens.

The military police and right-wing paramilitary (civilian) armies

executed thousands of left-wing and communist political prisoners at
Daejeon Prison and in the Jeju Uprising (1948–49).[130] The
Americans on the island documented the events, but never
intervened.[39] MEMO (25 Jul ’50) to Gen. Timberlake,
USAF; SUBJECT: Policy on Strafing Civilian
US diplomat Gregory Henderson, then in Korea, calculates some Refugees:
100,000 pro-North political prisoners were killed and buried in mass It is reported that large groups of civilians, either
graves.[131] The South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission composed of or controlled by North Korean
soldiers, are infiltrating US positions. The army
has compiled reports of hundreds of thousands of civilian killings
has requested we strafe all civilian refugee
before and during the war.[132] parties approaching our positions. To date, we
In addition to conventional military operations, North Korean soldiers have complied with the army request in this
respect.
fought the UN forces by infiltrating guerrillas among refugees. These
soldiers disguised as refugees would approach UN forces asking for
food and help, then open fire and attack. For a time, US troops acted under a "shoot-first-ask-questions-later" policy
against any civilian refugee approaching US battlefield positions,[133] a policy that led US Soldiers to kill between 8
and 400 civilians at No Gun Ri (26–29 July 1950) in central Korea because they believed some of the refugees killed
to be North Korean soldiers in disguise.[134]

The Korean armies forcibly conscripted available civilian men and women to their war efforts. In Statistics of
Democide (1997), Prof. R. J. Rummel reports that the North Korean Army conscripted some 400,000 South Korean
citizens.[129] The South Korean Government reported that before the US recaptured Seoul in September 1950, the
North abducted some 83,000 citizens; the North says they defected.[135] [136]

Bodo League anti–communist massacre

To outmaneuver a possible fifth column in the Republic of Korea,

President Syngman Rhee's régime assassinated its "enemies of the
state"—South Koreans suspected of being communists, pro-North
Korea, and leftist—by first imprisoning them for political re-education
in the Gukmin Bodo Ryeonmaeng (National Rehabilitation and
Guidance League, also known as the Bodo League). The true purpose
of the anti–communist Bodo League, abetted by the United States
Army Military Government in Korea (USAMGIK), was the régime's
ROK soldiers walk among the bodies of political
assassination of some 10,000 to 100,000 "enemies of the state" whom
prisoners executed near Daejon, July 1950
Korean War 21

they dumped in trenches, mines, and the sea, before and after the 25 June 1950 North Korean invasion.
Contemporary calculations report some 200,000 to 1,200,000.[137] USAMGIK officers were present at one political
execution site; at least one US officer sanctioned the mass killings of political prisoners whom the North Koreans
would have freed after conquering the peninsular south.[138]
The South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission reports that petitions requesting explanation of the
summary execution of leftist South Koreans outnumber, six-to-one, the petitions requesting explanation of the
summary execution of rightist South Koreans.[139] These data apply solely to South Korea, because North Korea is
not integral to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The father of Bodo League massacre survivor Kim
Jong-chol was press-ganged to work with the KPA and later executed by the Rhee Government as a collaborator; his
grandparents and a seven-year-old sister also were assassinated. About his experience in Namyangju city, he says:

“
Young children or whatever, were all killed en masse. What did the family do wrong? Why did they kill the family? When the people from
the other side [North Korea] came here, they didn't kill many people.
”
[138]
— Kim Jong-chol

USAMGIK officers photographed the mass killings at Daejon city in central South Korea, where the Truth
Commission believe some 3,000 to 7,000 people were shot and buried in mass graves in early July 1950. Other
declassified records report that a US Army Lieutenant Colonel approved the assassination of 3,500 political
prisoners by the ROK Army unit to which he was military advisor when the KPA reached the southern port city of
Pusan.[138] US diplomats reported having urged the Rhee régime's restraint against its political opponents, and that
the USAMGIK, who formally controlled the peninsular south, did not halt the mass assassinations.[138]

Prisoners of war

The US reported that North Korea mistreated prisoners of war: soldiers

were beaten, starved, put to forced labor, marched to death, and
summarily executed.[140] [141]
The KPA killed POWs at the battles for Hill 312, Hill 303, the Pusan
Perimeter, and Daejeon—discovered during early after-battle mop-up
actions by the UN forces. Later, a US Congress war crimes
investigation, the United States Senate Subcommittee on Korean War
Atrocities of the Permanent Subcommittee of the Investigations of the
Committee on Government Operations reported that "... two-thirds of
Two Hill 303 survivors after being rescued by
all American prisoners of war in Korea died as a result of war American units, August 17, 1950
crimes".[142] [143] [144]
Korean War 22

Although the Chinese rarely executed prisoners like their Korean

counterparts, mass starvation and diseases swept through the Chinese
run POW camps during the winter of 1950-51. About 43 percent of all
US POWs died during this period. The Chinese defended their actions
by stating that all Chinese soldiers during this period were suffering
mass starvation and diseases due to the lack of competent logistics
system. The UN POWs, however, disputed the claim by pointing out
that most of the Chinese camps were located near the easily supplied
Sino-Korean border, and that starvation was used to force the prisoners
An executed U.S. Army POW of the U.S. 21st
to accept the communism indoctrinations programs, which were
Infantry Regiment killed 9 July 1950. Picture
taken 10 July 1950
running in full swing after the starvation was over.[145]

The North Korean Government reported some 70,000 ROK Army

POWs; 8,000 were repatriated. South Korea repatriated 76,000 Korean
People's Army POWs.[146] Besides the 12,000 UN Command forces
POWs dead in captivity, the KPA might have press-ganged some
50,000 ROK POWs into the North Korean military.[129] Per the South
Korean Ministry of Defense, there remained some 560 Korean POWs
detained in North Korea in 2008; from 1994 until 2009, some 79 ROK
POWs escaped the North.[147] [148]
National Defense Corps soldiers in January,
The North Korean Government denied having POWs from the Korean
1951.
War, and, via the Korean Central News Agency, reported that the UN
forces killed some 33,600 KPA POWs; that on 19 July 1951, in POW
Camp No. 62, some 100 POWs were killed as machine-gunnery targets; that on 27 May 1952, in the 77th Camp,
Koje Island, the ROK Army incinerated with flamethrowers some 800 KPA POWs who rejected "voluntary
repatriation" south, and instead demanded repatriation north.[149]

Starvation
In December 1950, National Defense Corps was founded, the soldiers were 406,000 drafted citizens.[150] In the
winter of 1951, 50,000[151] [152] to 90,000[153] [154] South Korean National Defense Corps soldiers starved to death
while marching southward under the Chinese offensive when their commanding officers embezzled funds earmarked
for their food.[151] [153] [155] [156] This event is called the National Defense Corps Incident.[151] [153]

Aftermath
Korean War 23

Proxy war
The Korean War (1950–53) was the first major proxy war in the Cold
War (1945–91), the prototype of the following sphere-of-influence
wars such as the Vietnam War (1959–75). The Korean War established
proxy war as one way that the nuclear superpowers indirectly
conducted their rivalry in third-party countries. The NSC-68
Containment Policy extended the cold war from occupied Europe to
the rest of the world.
The DMZ as seen from the north, 2005.

DMZ
Fighting ended at the 38th parallel and the Korean Demilitarized Zone,
a strip of land 248x4 km (155x2.5 mi), now divides the two countries.
Even so, skirmishes, incursions, and incidents between the combatants
have continued since the Armistice was signed.

Racial integration of U.S. Forces

The beginning of racial integration efforts in the U.S. military began
during the Korean War, where African Americans fought in integrated A U.S. Army Captain confers with ROK Army
units for the first time. Among the 1.8 million American soldiers who counterparts, at Observation Post (OP) Ouellette,
viewing northward, April 2008.
fought in the Korean War there were more than 100,000 African
Americans.[157]

Turkey
The Korean War affected other participant combatants. Turkey, for
example, entered NATO in 1952[158] and a foundation of bilateral
diplomatic and trade relations was enhanced.[159]

Post-war economies
The South Korean economy grew almost
Post-war recovery was different in the two Koreas. South Korea non-stop from near zero to over a trillion dollars
in less than half a century.
stagnated in the first post-war decade, but later industrialized and
modernized. Contemporary North Korea remains underdeveloped.
South Korea had one of the world's fastest growing economies from the early 1960s to the late 1990s. In 1957 South
Korea had a lower per capita GDP than Ghana,[160] and by 2008 it was 17 times as high as Ghana's.[161] The
economy of South Korea is a modern free market economy, and South Korea is a member of the Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and G-20 groups.

In the 1990s North Korea faced significant economic disruptions. The North Korean famine is believed to have
killed as many as 2.5 million people.[162] The CIA World Factbook estimates North Korea's GDP (Purchasing power
parity (PPP)) is $40 billion, which is 3.0% of South Korea's $1.196 trillion GDP (PPP). North Korean personal
income is $1,800 per capita, which is 7.0% of the South Korean $24,500 per capita income.
Korean War 24

ROK Anti-communism
Anti-communism remains in ROK politics. The Uri Party practiced a "Sunshine Policy" towards North Korea; the
US often disagreed with the Uri Party and (former) ROK President Roh about relations between the Koreas. The
conservative Grand National Party (GNP), the Uri Party's principal opponent, is anti-North Korea.

ROK Anti-Americanism sentiments

Korean anti-Americanism after the war was fueled by the presence and behavior of American military personnel
(USFK) and U.S. support for authoritarian regime, a fact still evident during the country's democratic transition in
the 1980s.[163] In a February 2002 Gallup-Korea poll, only one-third of South Koreans viewed the United States
favorably.[164]

"G.I. Babies" and U.S. immigration law

In addition a large number of mixed race ‘G.I. babies’ (offspring of U.S. and other western soldiers and Korean
women) were filling up the country’s orphanages. Korean traditional society places significant weight on paternal
family ties, bloodlines, and purity of race. Children of mixed race or those without fathers are not easily accepted in
Korean society. Thousands were adopted by American families in the years following the war, when their plight was
covered on television.[165]
The U.S. Immigration Act of 1952 removed race as a limiting factor in immigration, and made possible the entry of
military spouses and children from South Korea after the Korean War. With the passage of the Immigration Act of
1965, which substantially changed U.S. immigration policy toward non-Europeans, Koreans became one of the
fastest growing Asian groups in the United States.[166]

Popular culture
The Korean War has been the subject of films and books, and has been depicted in other media such as theatre and
photography. The TV series M*A*S*H is one well known example. The 1959 novel The Manchurian Candidate has
twice been made into films. The 1982 film Inchon depicted the invasion at Inchon. Many films about the war have
been produced in Asian countries as well.

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2001), pp. 188–224. full text in Ingenta and Ebsco; discusses major works by British, American, Korean,
Chinese, and Russian authors
• Sandler, Stanley ed., The Korean War: An Encyclopedia (Garland, 1995)
• Summers, Harry G. Korean War Almanac (1990)
• Werrell, Kenneth P. (2005). Sabres over MiG alley (http://books.google.com/?id=G8mwGZ6Vdc4C&
pg=PA1). Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. ISBN 9781591149330. Retrieved 2009-07-19.
• Carpenter, William M. "The Korean War: A Strategic Perspective Thirty Years Later." Comparative Strategy 2.4
(1980): 335-53. Print.
• Casey, Steven. Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States,
1950-1953. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2008. Print.
• Foot, Rosemary. The Wrong War: American Policy and the Dimensions of the Korean Conflict, 1950-1953.
Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1985. Print.
• Hermes, Walter G. U.S. Army in the Korean War:. Washington D.C.: Center of Military History United States
Army, 2005. Print.
• Kim, Young C. Major Powers and Korea; [papers]. Silver Spring, MD: Research Institute on Korean Affairs,
1973. Print.
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• Millett, Allan Reed. The War for Korea, 1945-1950: a House Burning. Lawrence, Kan.: University of Kansas,
2005. Print.
• O'Ballance, Edgar. Korea: 1950-1953. Hamden: Archon, 1969. Print.
• Ohn, Chang-Il. "The Korean War of 1950-1953: U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and U.S. Strategy." Revue
Internationale D'histoire Militaire 70 (1988): 211-41. Print.
• Oliver, Robert T. Why War Came in Korea. New York: Fordham UP, 1950. Print.
• Rees, David. Korea: the Limited War. New York: St Martin's, 1964. Print.
• Srivastava, M. P. The Korean Conflict: Search for Unification. New Delhi: Prentice-Hall of India, 1982. Print.
• Warrell, Kenneth P. "Across the Yalu: Rules of Engagement and the Communist Air Sanctuary during the Korean
War." Journal of Military History 72.2 (2008): 451-76. Print.

Further reading

Combat studies, soldiers

• Appleman, Roy E. South to the Naktong, North to the Yalu (1961), Official US Army history covers the Eighth
Army and X Corps from June to November 1950
• Appleman, Roy E.. East of Chosin: Entrapment and Breakout in Korea (1987); Escaping the Trap: The US Army
in Northeast Korea, 1950 (1987); Disaster in Korea: The Chinese Confront MacArthur (1989); Ridgway Duels
for Korea (1990).
• Blair, Clay. The Forgotten War: America in Korea, 1950–1953 (1987), revisionist study that attacks senior
American officials
• Field Jr., James A. History of United States Naval Operations: Korea, University Press of the Pacific, 2001, ISBN
0-89875-675-8. official US Navy history
• Farrar-Hockley, General Sir Anthony. The British Part in the Korean War, HMSO, 1995, hardcover 528 pages,
ISBN 0-11-630962-8
• Futrell, Robert F. The United States Air Force in Korea, 1950–1953, rev. ed. (Office of the Chief of Air Force
History, 1983), official US Air Force history
• Halberstam, David. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, Hyperion, 2007, ISBN 1-4013-0052-9.
• Hallion, Richard P. The Naval Air War in Korea (1986).
• Hamburger, Kenneth E. Leadership in the Crucible: The Korean War Battles of Twin Tunnels and Chipyong-Ni.
Texas A. & M. U. Press, 2003. 257 pp.
• Hastings, Max. The Korean War (1987). British perspective
• James, D. Clayton The Years of MacArthur: Triumph and Disaster, 1945–1964 (1985), scholarly biography of
MacArthur
• James, D. Clayton with Anne Sharp Wells, Refighting the Last War: Command and Crises in Korea, 1950–1953
(1993)
• Johnston, William Cameron, A war of patrols: Canadian Army operations in Korea (http://books.google.ca/
books?id=bixhkOzc9DcC&lpg=PP1&dq=Canadian War Museum&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=true), Canadian
War Museum (UBC Press), ISBN 0774810084
• Kindsvatter, Peter S. American Soldiers: Ground Combat in the World Wars, Korea, and Vietnam. U. Press of
Kansas, 2003. 472 pp.
• Millett, Allan R. Their War for Korea: American, Asian, and European Combatants and Civilians, 1945–1953.
Brassey's, 2003. 310 pp.
• Millett, Allan R. The War For Korea, 1950–1951: They Came From the North (University Press of Kansas; 2010)
644 pages
• Montross, Lynn et al., History of US Marine Operations in Korea, 1950–1953, 5 vols. (Washington: Historical
Branch, G-3, Headquarters, Marine Corps, 1954–72),
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• Mossman, Billy. Ebb and Flow (1990), Official US Army history covers November 1950 to July 1951.
• Russ, Martin. Breakout: The Chosin Reservoir Campaign, Korea 1950, Penguin, 2000, 464 pages, ISBN
0-14-029259-4
• Toland, John. In Mortal Combat: Korea, 1950–1953 (1991)
• Varhola, Michael J. Fire and Ice: The Korean War, 1950–1953 (2000)
• Watson, Brent Byron. Far Eastern Tour: The Canadian Infantry in Korea, 1950–1953. 2002. 256 pp.
• Flanagan, E.M. Jr., Airborne – A Combat History Of American Airborne Forces, The Random House Publishing
Group, 2002

Origins, politics, diplomacy

• Chen Jian, China's Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation (Columbia
University Press, 1994).
• Cumings, Bruce. Origins of the Korean War (two volumes), Princeton University Press, 1981, 1990.
• Goncharov, Sergei N., John W. Lewis; and Xue Litai, Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean War,
Stanford University Press, 1993, ISBN 0-8047-2521-7, diplomatic
• Kaufman, Burton I. The Korean War: Challenges in Crisis, Credibility, and Command. Temple University Press,
1986, focus is on Washington
• Matray, James. "Truman's Plan for Victory: National Self Determination and the Thirty-Eighth Parallel Decision
in Korea," Journal of American History 66 (September, 1979), 314–33. in JSTOR (http://www.jstor.org/pss/
1900879)
• Millett, Allan R. The War for Korea, 1945–1950: A House Burning vol 1 (2005)ISBN 0-7006-1393-5, origins
• Schnabel, James F (1972). United States Army in the Korean War: Policy and Direction: The First Year (http://
www.history.army.mil/books/p&d.htm). United States Army Center of Military History. CMH Pub 20-1-1. –
full text online
• Spanier, John W. The Truman-MacArthur Controversy and the Korean War (1959).
• Stueck, William. Rethinking the Korean War: A New Diplomatic and Strategic History. Princeton U. Press, 2002.
285 pp.
• Stueck, Jr., William J. The Korean War: An International History (Princeton University Press, 1995), diplomatic
• Zhang Shu-gang, Mao's Military Romanticism: China and the Korean War, 1950–1953 (University Press of
Kansas, 1995)

Reference sources
• Edwards, Paul M. The A to Z of the Korean War. The Scarecrow Press, 2005. 307 pp.
• Edwards, Paul M. The Hill Wars of the Korean Conflict : A Dictionary of Hills, Outposts and other Sites of
Military Action. McFarland & Co., 2006. 267 pp.
• Edwards, Paul M. The Korean War: a Historical Dictionary. The Scarecrow Press, 2003. 367 pp.
• Matray, James I. (ed.) Historical Dictionary of the Korean War. Greenwood Press, 1991. 626 pp.
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Primary sources
• Bassett, Richard M. And the Wind Blew Cold: The Story of an American POW in North Korea. Kent State U.
Press, 2002. 117 pp.
• Bin Yu and Xiaobing Li, eds. Mao's Generals Remember Korea, University Press of Kansas, 2001, hardcover 328
pages, ISBN 0-7006-1095-2
• S.L.A. Marshall, The River and the Gauntlet (1953) on combat
• Matthew B. Ridgway, The Korean War (1967).

External links

Historical
• The Cold War International History Project's Document Collection on the Korean War (http://www.
wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=va2.browse&sort=Collection&item=The Korean
War)
• Korean War Documentary (http://www.rt66.com/~korteng/SmallArms/)
• Facts and texts on the Korean War (http://www.paulnoll.com/Korea/War/index.html)
• Atrocities against Americans in the Korean War (http://www.koreanwar-educator.org/topics/atrocities.
htm#types)
• Atrocities by Americans in the Korean War (http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/55a/099.html)
• Korean section of West Point Atlas of American Wars (http://www.dean.usma.edu/history/web03/atlases/
korean war/KoreanWarIndex.html)
• POW films, brainwashing and the Korean War (http://fornits.com/anonanon/articles/200103/20010330-258.
htm)
• North Korea International Documentation Project (http://www.wilsoncenter.org/nkidp)
• Documents on the Korean Conflict at the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library (http://eisenhower.
archives.gov/Research/Digital_Documents/korea/koreawar.html)
• Grand Valley State University Veteran's History Project digital collection (http://gvsu.cdmhost.com/cdm4/
results.php?CISOOP1=all&CISOBOX1=&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOOP2=exact&
CISOBOX2=Korean War, 1950-1953&CISOFIELD2=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOOP3=any&CISOBOX3=&
CISOFIELD3=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOOP4=none&CISOBOX4=&CISOFIELD4=CISOSEARCHALL&
CISOROOT=/p4103coll2&t=a)
• The Forgotten War, Remembered (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/25/opinion/25KoreaIntro.html) – four
testimonials by The New York Times
• Collection of Books and Research Materials on the Korean War (http://www.history.army.mil/html/
bookshelves/resmat/kw.html) an online collection of the United States Army Center of Military History
• The Korean War (http://www.history.com/topics/korean-war)
• War Memorial Korea (http://www.warmemo.or.kr/eng/intro/message/message.jsp)
• Korean-War.com (http://www.korean-war.com/)
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Media
• The Korean War You Never Knew (http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/43961/
the-korean-war-you-never-knew) & Life in the Korean War (http://www.life.com/image/first/in-gallery/
44961/never-seen-life-in-the-korean-war) – slideshows by Life magazine
• QuickTime sequence of 27 maps adapted from the West Point Atlas of American Wars (http://www.cotf.edu/
ete/images/modules/korea/koreanw.mov)
• Animation for operations in 1950 (http://www.geocities.jp/whis_shosin/koreanwar1950english.html)
• Animation for operations in 1951 (http://www.geocities.jp/whis_shosin/koreanwar1951english.html)
• US Army Korea Media Center official Korean War online image archive (http://www.flickr.com/photos/
imcomkorea/sets/72157607808414225/)
• Rare pictures of the Korean War from the U.S. Library of Congress and National Archives (http://www.
awesomestories.com/history/korean-war/war-pictures)
• Land of the Morning Calm Canadians in Korea - multimedia project including veteran interviews (http://www.
vac-acc.gc.ca/content/collections/korea/flash/index_en.html)
• Pathé (http://www.britishpathe.com/workspace.php?id=32&display=listBritish) Online newsreel archive
featuring films on the war
• CBC Digital Archives—Forgotten Heroes: Canada and the Korean War (http://archives.cbc.ca/IDD-1-71-112/
conflict_war/korea/)

Organizations
• Korea Defense Veterans of America (http://www.kdvamerica.org/About.html)
• Korean War Ex-POW Association (http://www.koreanwarexpow.org/info/jpac.html)
• Korean War Veterans Association (http://www.kwva.org/pow_mia/index.htm)
• The Center for the Study of the Korean War (http://www.koreanwarcenter.org/index.html)

Memorials
• War Memorial of Korea Yongsan-dong, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, South Korea
• Korean War Memorial Wall,map Brampton, Ontario.
• National War Memorial (New Zealand)
• UN Memorial Cemetery, Busan (http://www.unmck.or.kr/eng/paying_tribute/m_searchsol_list.php)
• War Memorial of Korea, Seoul The War Memorial's official website (https://www.warmemo.or.kr/main.jsp)
• Korean Children's War Memorial (http://www.koreanchildren.org/)
• Chinese 50th Anniversary Korean War Memorial (http://www.china.org.cn/e-America/index.htm)
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