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The Korean War refers to a period of military conflict between North Korea (officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea) and South Korea (officially the Republic of Korea) regimes, with major hostilities lasting from June 25, 1950 until the armistice signed on July 27, 1953. The conflict arose from the attempts of the two Korean powers to re-unify Korea under their respective governments. The period immediately before the war was marked by escalating border conflicts at the 38th Parallel and attempts to negotiate elections for the entirety of Korea.[17] These negotiations ended when the North Korean Army invaded the South on June 25, 1950. Under the aegis of the United Nations, nations allied with the United States intervened on behalf of South Korea. After rapid advances in a South Korean counterattack, communist-allied Chinese forces intervened on behalf of North Korea, shifting the balance of the war and ultimately leading to an armistice that approximately restored the original boundaries between North and South Korea. While some have referred to the conflict as a civil war, many other factors were at play.[18] Each side was supported by external powers and the conflict expanded, becoming a proxy war in the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. The term has also been used to describe both the events preceding and following the main hostilities. In South Korea, the war is often called 6·25 or 6·25 War (Korean 6·25 ??), from the date of the start of the conflict or, more formally, Hanguk jeonjaeng (Hangul ????; Hanja ????, literally "Korean War"). In North Korea, while commonly known as the Korean War, it is formally called the Joguk haebang jeonjaeng or Fatherland Liberation War (Hangul ??????; Hanja ??????). In the United States, the conflict was officially termed a police action&_160;— the Korean Conflict&_160;— rather than a war, largely in order to avoid the necessity of a declaration of war by the U.S. Congress. The war is sometimes called The Forgotten War or The Unknown War because it is a major conflict of the 20th century that gets far less attention than World War II, which preceded it, and the Vietnam War, which succeeded it.[19] The war was a unique combination of the techniques utilized in both World War I and World War II, beginning with swift, fast-paced infantry advances following well-choreographed bombing raids from the air by the American military and its UN allies. However, following both sides' failures at holding the land captured, battles quickly evolved into World War I-type trench warfare in January 1951, lasting until the essential border stalemate at the end. In China, the conflict was known as the War to Resist America and Aid Korea (????), but is today commonly called the "Korean War" (?? ?? Chaoxian zhanzheng,[20] ???? Hanguo zhanzheng, or simply ?? Hanzhan).
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Subliminal Messaging - Historical Perspective by Sanjay Agrawal
The Korean War
Circa 1957. The United States had just returned after a bloody war around the 38th parallel, after successfully resisting the invasion by Kim Il-Sung's North Korea over the southern Korean peninsula. (As I write this piece,...
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