In June 25th, 1950, North Korea suddenly and illegally invaded South Korea. After the Korean peninsula was divided into two parts - North and South -, it seems that Korean peninsula was just peaceful. However, Il-sung Kim who was a powerful leader of the North Korea was carefully preparing a war. As the Soviet Union and china promised to help North Korea, North Korea could determine more easily to attack South Korea. Korea did not even imagine that a war can be happened right after the World War Two (WW2), but it really happened. When UN heard that North Korea’s illegal invasion had happened, many countries including U.S. and U.K. agreed to help South Korea in order to beat communist forces and to protect Korea.
In the early days of the war, Korean people could do nothing except fleeing from the cruel enemy. People had to leave their home and family in their hometown to survive. Although lots of Korean soldiers bravely fought against North Korea, we could not stop them and continuously moved back to the final defense line; Nakdong River defense line. At that time, Korean people were in a state of panic that they could lose their nation. At the Nakdong River defense line, the ROK-UN combined forces decided to concentrate all its energy finally.(The last defense line of Nakdong River →)
One of the famous events during the Korean War was General MacArthur’s Incheon landing operation. Because of this operation, the war situation turned in our favor. Korean allied forces began to counterattack. Korea regained its territories one by one, and once, Korea could occupy most of today’s North Korea.
However, since North Korea’s powerful supporter China worried about the strong power of ROK-UN combined forces and the possibility of North Korea’s disappearance, they started to intervene in the Korean War. Because of the countless Chinese forces, Korean allied forces had to take a step back to the today’s demarcation line and it descended up to this day.The Korean War was the tragedy of a fratricidal war. During the three-year of infernal war, not only Korean people but also many other foreign people passed away in the Korean peninsula. We Korean should remember those people’s noble sacrifices forever, and do our best to protect national security of Korea so that terrible misery like the Korean War never happens again.
