Seventy years ago, conflict erupted over who would control the Korean Peninsula. It stoked tensions that still roil today—and changed how wars are waged. A South Korean infantry officer directs troops ...

Korea is known as the “Land of the Morning Calm.” But on June 25, 70 years ago, North Korea shattered that tranquility by unleashing a brutal war, which lasted three years and devastated the Korean ...

American troops led United Nations forces to defend South Korea against the North. The war ended with a cease-fire agreement and a Korean Peninsula that is still divided. Allied troops near the ...

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What do you know about North Korea and South Korea, and the Korean War? In 1910, Korea was annexed by Japan and occupied until the end of World War II in 1945. The Korean War began in 1950 with ...

Seventy-five years ago this week, more than 135,000 North Korean troops invaded South Korea, starting a war that cost millions of lives and left scars that linger to this day. Yet, the Korean War has ...

In this May 21, 2010, file photo, visitors look at posters of the late leaders, from left, of North Korea’s Kim Il Song, China’s Mao Zedong and Russia’s Joseph Stalin at a Korean War exhibition in ...

Seventy years ago this week, the armistice that froze the Korean War was signed. During a year of savage battlefield maneuvering and two more of bitter stalemate, nearly 40,000 American troops gave ...