The Korean War was the civil and military struggle that was fought on the Korea Peninsula and that reached its height between 1950 and 1953. The Korean War originated in the division of Korea into South Korea and North Korea after World War II. The superpower rivalry frequently drew Third War countries into political and ideological disputes. There were many conflicts between the communist and the noncommunist during the cold war era, and the most serious clash occurred in Korea.
Despite its long history as an independent kingdom, Korea had been forcibly annexed by Japan in 1910. Japan c…
