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Also known as War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea

war between North and South Korea, 1950–1953

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The Korean War was a military conflict fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953 that resulted in the division of the Korean peninsula into two separate nations. It matters because it shaped modern Korean history and remains significant to international relations in East Asia today.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
war
Part of
Cold War
Image
Korean War Montage 2.png
Significant event
Battle of Kapyong
Participant
Soviet Union
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start time
1950-06-25
end time
1953-07-27
Commons category
Korean War
topic's main category
Category:Korean War
Commons gallery
Korean War
native label
抗美援朝戰爭
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
located in/on physical feature
China–North Korea border
has effect
Second Cold War
significant person
Harold Keith Johnson
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Encyclopedic overview

Belligerents

South Korea

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Korean War” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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