Korean War

The Korean War, a conflict between North Korea and South Korea, started in 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea.. The war also involved the United States, the Soviet Union, China, the United Nations and 17 other nations. The war would end in 1953 with the sides coming to a peace agreement after fighting to a virtual stalemate for three years. http://www.korean-war.com/

One of the largest battles of the Korean War as the Battle for Pork Chop Hill. In this, the United Nations' allied forces were able to push into North Korean territory and take over the area, which had been invaded by North Korea in 1950 and has been under communist rule since that time. This battle represented one of the final chapters in the war.http://www.historynet.com/korean-war-battle-on-pork-chop-hill.htm

Korea became a Japanese colony in 1905 after the Russo-Japanese War and was divided into two regions after World War II, with the Soviet Union controlling the North and the United States controlling the South.http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/koreanwar/section1.html The regions became two separate nations in 1948.

The invasion of South Korea was an attempt to reunify the two regions into one nation by bringing the South under the control of North Korea's government and its leader Kim II Sung. Several nations held an interest in the outcome, including the Soviet Union, which supported the communist regime in the North, and the United States, which was determined to prevent a communist victory over the South.http://www.history.com/reference/encyclopedia/viewArticle?id=214043&networkCode=THC]

On July 27, 1953, North and South Korea officially signed the Korea Armistice Agreement to end the fighting between the countries. The agreement did not favor either country, both sides were given their own, independent nations and a military boundary line was drawn between the two nations. All of the other countries in the war at the time also withdrew from the nations, and both sides immediately halted any combat on the field.http://news.findlaw.com/wp/docs/korea/kwarmagr072753.html