Korean War

Korean War Fatherland Liberation War Choguk haebang chŏnjaeng
Part of Cold War
1968 painting of the Korean soldiers during the War displayed at the Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum.
Date 25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953 Location Korean Peninsula, Yellow Sea, Sea of Japan, Korea Strait, China–North Korea border Result Inconclusive; Ongoing (de facto) Territorial changes Korean Demilitarized Zone established
Belligerents
North Korea China Soviet Union	South Korea United Nations United States United Kingdom Australia Canada New Zealand South Africa France Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg Greece Turkey Philippines Thailand Ethiopia Colombia
Commanders and leaders
Kim Il Sung Mao Zedong Zhou Enlai Peng Dehuai Hong Xuezhi Josef Stalin	Syngman Rhee Paik Sun-yup Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower Douglas MacArthur Matthew Ridgway Walton Walker James Van Fleet George E. Stratemeyer C. Turner Joy
Strength
Peak strength DPRK 266,600 PRC 1,450,000 USSR 26,000 1,742,000 total Total strength PRC 2,970,000 USSR 72,000 DPRK 1,000,000+ 4,042,000 total	Peak strength ROK 602,902 USA 326,863 968,302 total Total strength USA 1,789,000 ROK 1,300,000
Casualties and losses
1.6–3 million civilian deaths 990,968 total South Korean casualties est. 1,550,000 total North Korean casualties

The Korean War (Known in North Korea as the Fatherland Liberation War), was an imperialist war

Background

Japanese Imperialism and the Korean Revolution

During and after the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), Imperial Japan colonized Korea in 1905 and fully incorporated it into the empire through annexation in 1910. During the occupation, the Japanese treated Korean poeple as second class citizens and thus discrimination was common amongst the Koreans and Japanese Settlers. The vast majority of comfort women were Koreans at 200,000 enslaved women forced into sex slavery under the Japanese. Koreans also fell victom

The Second World War proved pivotal for the Anti Japanese Army. With the Soviet Invasion of Manchuria, after breaking with a previous non-agression pact with the Japanese, starting on August 8, the Anti-Japanese Army joined and weree

The People's Republic and American Imperialism

By the time American troops landed in the Korean peninsula on September 7, 1945, the Korean people, with Soviet support, established the People's Republic of Korea.

The Americans later dissolved the government and installed an anti-communist puppet regime in the south of the country. The Soviets supported and recognized the people's committees that used to hold power in the PRK as many fled to th North, wherein their programs of nationalization continued.