70 years since the end of the korean war

phuketrichard · Post by **phuketrichard** » Fri Jul 28, 2023 11:16 am

For some of us this affected us< ( my dad served)
don't recall any of it as I was to young>

Korean War, conflict between the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in which at least 2.5 million persons lost their lives. The war reached international proportions in June 1950 when North Korea, supplied and advised by the Soviet Union, invaded the South. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal participant, joined the war on the side of the South Koreans, and the People’s Republic of China came to North Korea’s aid. After more than a million combat casualties had been suffered on both sides, the fighting ended in July 1953 with Korea still divided into two hostile states. Negotiations in 1954 produced no further agreement, and the front line has been accepted ever since as the de facto boundary between North and South Korea.

In all, some 5 million soldiers and civilians lost their lives in what many in the U.S. refer to as “the Forgotten War” for the lack of attention it received compared to more well-known conflicts like World War I and II and the Vietnam War. The Korean peninsula remains divided today.

John Bingham · Post by **John Bingham** » Fri Jul 28, 2023 11:28 am

A formal peace treaty was never signed, so the Korean Peninsula is still technically at war.

cabron · Post by **cabron** » Fri Jul 28, 2023 12:10 pm

John Bingham wrote: ↑Fri Jul 28, 2023 11:28 am A formal peace treaty was never signed, so the Korean Peninsula is still technically at war.

Old status quo.

Random Dude · Post by **Random Dude** » Fri Jul 28, 2023 12:14 pm

I had a mate from South Korea once, he used to talk about how his family was split in two back in the day, when the line on the map was drawn. It was just a matter of someone living in one village with his wife and kids, and his wife's family living in the next village down the dirt road or something like that - probably only 20 minutes by donkey cart, but it was enough to doom half of the family and all their descendants to life in a miserable prison, while the other half of the family eventually grew rich and thrived. None of them knew what became of the family on the other side of the border, there was never any contact again.