Korean War

After the Surrender of Imperial Japan, The new two states had been formed on peninsula, In South Korea, the anti-communist dictator Syngman Rhee enjoyed the reluctant support of the American government; In North Korea, the communist dictator Kim Il-sung enjoyed slightly more enthusiastic support of Soviet. On June 25, 1950, the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. Even so, the North Korea invasion came to the american officials in 1950. On June 25, 1950, the Korean War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. In July 1951, President Truman and his new military commanders started peace talks at Panmunjom. the adversaries signed an armistice on July 27, 1953. The agreement allowed the POWs to stay where they liked; drew a new boundary near the 38th parallel that gave South Korea an extra 1,500 square miles of territory; and created a 2-mile-wide “demilitarized zone” that still exists today.