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The North Korean flag is just the flag and the South Korean flag is in water  Why was there a war? Armed forces from communist North Korea smash into South Korea, setting off the Korean War. The United States,acting under the auspices of the United Nations, quickly sprang to the defense of South Korea and fought a bloody and frustrating war for the next three years. Who was involved? United Nations,Republic of Korea,United States,United Kingdom,Australia,Belgium,Canada,Colombia,Ethiopia,France,Greece,Luxembourg,Netherlands,New Zealand,Philippines,South Africa,Thailand,Turkey,Democratic People's Republic of Korea, People's Republic of China, and The Soviet Union. Where was the War? The war was held in North Korea, and South Korea. How it Ended? The war reached a stalemate in June 1951. An armistice was finally reached on July 27, 1953. American Battle Death's In the Korean War there was approximately 33,741 american battle death's   Total Number of Death's  The total number of deaths in the war was about 2,800,000 Interesting Facts of the Korean War
 * 1) The Korean War began on June 25, 1950, when 75,000 North Korean soldiers poured over the 38th parallel into South Korea to impose communism on its neighbor.
 * 2) The Korean War was the first military action of the Cold War.
 * 3) The Korean War began at 4:30 a.m. on June 25, 1950, and ended on July, 1953. There are still more than 7,000 U.S soldiers missing in action from the war.
 * 4) The North Korean film //Unsung Heroes// (1978) glorifies members of the North Korean military while depicting war crimes by South Korea and the U.S. in it's cast were several U.S soldiers who had defected to North Korea
 * 5) The Korean War took a heavy tool-up to a total of 5 million dead, wounded, or missing, and half of them civilians.
 * 6) Although actual hostiles during the Korean war ended on July, 27, 1953, Congress lengthened the war period to January, 31, 1955, to extend eligibility for soldiers because peace was so uncertain after the 1953 peace negotiations.

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