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The Korean War Of North Korea

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The Korean War went through some tough times. There was a total of 5 million dead, wounded, or missing, and over half of them civilians. There were over six million soldiers, sailors and airmen fought on both sides in the Korean War, and more than three million of these were communists from North Korea, China, and Russia. Opposing them were almost three million from South Korea and from twenty-one United Nations (UN) countries including Australia. The Korean War was a conflict between Communist and Noncommunist forces in Korea from June twenty-fifth, nineteen-fifty, to July twenty-seventh, nineteen-fifty-three. The Korean War began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the thirty-eighth Parallel to invade the non-Communist South …show more content…

Of the peninsula 's five major minerals—gold, iron ore, coal, tungsten, and graphite, in which only tungsten and graphite are found principally in the South. South Korea has only ten percent of the peninsula 's rich coal and iron deposits. The Korean economy was shattered by the war of nineteen-fifty to nineteen fifty-three. Postwar reconstruction was abetted by enormous amounts of foreign aid (in the North from Communist countries and in the South mainly from the United States) and intensive government economic development programs. Before the Korean War had started, both the North and South Korea were taken under the control of the Japanese (obviously after WWII Japan had to get out.) Japan had developed industries in some of the area. Well after the Korean war, North Korea remained under the control toward the communist party, and South Korea had become a democracy. Many people moved from North Korea to South Korea in order to move away from the communists. The problem was that North Korea was much more industrialized so this threw Korea way out of balance.
The second conflict of the Korean War is the military. The Korean War invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. By July, American troops had entered the war only on South Korea’s behalf. As far as the American officials were concerned, it was a war against the forces of international communism itself. After some of the early back and forth across the 38th parallel, the fighting stalled and

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