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    The Korean War was a war between North Korea-icon.png North Koreaball and South Korea-icon.png South Koreaball, in which a UN-icon.png UNball force led by the USA-icon.png USAball fought for the South, and China-icon.png Chinaball fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet-icon.png Soviet Unionball. The war arose from the division of Korea at the end of World War II and from the global tensions of the Cold War that developed immediately afterward. It officially ended on 27 April 2018 after the 2018 inter-Korean summit.

    Forward to Pusan![edit | edit source]

    In 1950, Soviet-icon.png Soviet Unionball developed its very own atomic bomb from spies working for USA-icon.png USAball and UK-icon.png UKball. When this was revealed, the world that if a major war broke out between Communists and Capitalists, it would destroy the entire world. Tensions also were rising elsewhere, most notably in Asia. Taiwan-icon.png Republic of Chinaball was defeated by China-icon.png communists in the Chinese Civil War and fled to Taiwan-icon.png Taiwan. Even then, the newly communist China-icon.png Chinaball was excluded from UN-icon.png UNball, and in his place was the pro-USA, capitalist Taiwan-icon.png Taiwanball, and soon, all of the world's eyes turned to a specific peninsula.

    After World War II, Japan-icon.png Japanball was defeated and was forced to surrender, and Soviet-icon.png Soviet Unionball and USA-icon.png USAball each had a chunk of the Korean Peninsula. The division was meant to be only temporary, but things went sour quickly. In the north, Soviet-icon.png Soviet Unionball created North Korea-icon.png North Koreaball, and in the south, USA-icon.png USAball (with black magic) created South Korea-icon.png South Koreaball. They were divided along the 38th Parallel. At home, both Koreaballs dreamed of defeating the other and unifying the country under their control. And so, now that Soviet-icon.png Soviet Unionball had its very own nuke, it felt more confident than usual, and so it allowed North Korea-icon.png North Koreaball to invade. And so it did.

    North Korea-icon.png North Koreaball steamrolled through South Korea-icon.png South Koreaball's clay, taking Seoul-icon.png Seoulball really quickly, and replacing worst Korea with best Korea. However, back at home, USA-icon.png USAball and UN-icon.png UNball were freaking out. Just years before, USA-icon.png USAball promised to contain the spread of Communism, now if Korea fell to communism, it believed, other countryballs would soon fall to communism as well. USA-icon.png USAball pushed for a resolution in UN-icon.png UNball, and to help South Korea-icon.png South Koreaball win the war. They still held Busanball, after all. Maybe not all hope was lost. And so it was.

    Intervention[edit | edit source]

    Because of USA-icon.png USAball's push for resolutions through UN-icon.png UNball, they agreed and quickly created an emergency force made up of troops from 14 different countries to aid South Koreaball. At Busanball, South Korea-icon.png South Koreaball was still trying to hold out, but UN-icon.png UNball came to its rescue. They made landings at Incheonball, near Seoul-icon.png Seoulball, and trapped North Korea-icon.png North Koreanballs at the South Korea-icon.png South Korean peninsula. South Korea-icon.png South Koreaball and UN-icon.png UNball pushed North Korea-icon.png North Koreaball back up, replacing best Korea with the worst Korea. And they kept going until they captured Pyongyangball. And we're so close to defeating North Korea-icon.png North Koreaball, when China-icon.png Chinaball got paranoid. China-icon.png Chinaball got paranoid even as UN-icon.png UNball was pushing up into Seoul-icon.png Seoul. It did not want to lose an ally in Asia, not to mention, if UN-icon.png UNball defeated North Koreaball, they might just keep going up into Manchukuo-icon.png Manchuriaball. And so, China-icon.png Chinaball made its decision. It would help North Korea-icon.png North Koreaball liberate the motherland. Just as UN-icon.png UNball was at the Chinese border, about a million China-icon.png Chinese troops crossed the Yalu river into North Korea-icon.png North Koreaball. This new offensive took everyone by surprise (again), and China-icon.png Chinaball just as easily steamrolled through the UN-icon.png UNball forces, and North Korea-icon.png North Koreaball, with the help of its communist friend, recaptured Seoul-icon.png Seoulball in 1950. However, UN-icon.png UNball's counterattack was powerful and effective and they pushed China-icon.png Chinaball and North Korea-icon.png North Koreaball back over the 38th parallel, recapturing Seoul-icon.png Seoulball and parts of North Korea-icon.png North Koreaball's clay. After this initial success, however, the war went nowhere. No progress was made, no defeat of best Korea (thankfully), no glorious push to liberate the motherland, the war just stopped.

    Armistice.[edit | edit source]

    The fighting ended on 27 July 1953, when the armistice was signed. This created a De-militarized zone in Korea, monitored by troops from both sides. This has created a frozen conflict, still continuing to this day. See below.

    After the armistice[edit | edit source]

    Since the armistice, there have been numerous incursions and acts of aggression by North Korea. In 1976, the ax murder incident was widely publicized. Since 1974, four incursion tunnels leading to Seoul have been uncovered. In 2010, a North Korean submarine torpedoed and sank the South Korean corvette ROKS Cheonan, resulting in the deaths of 46 sailors. Again in 2010, North Korea fired artillery shells on Yeonpyeong island, killing two military personnel and two civilians.

    After a new wave of UN sanctions, on 11 March 2013, North Korea claimed that it had invalidated the 1953 armistice. On 13 March 2013, North Korea confirmed it ended the 1953 Armistice and declared North Korea "is not restrained by the North-South declaration on non-aggression". On 30 March 2013, North Korea stated that it had entered a "state of war" with South Korea and declared that "The long-standing situation of the Korean peninsula being neither at peace nor at war is finally over". Speaking on 4 April 2013, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, informed the press that Pyongyang had "formally informed" the Pentagon that it had "ratified" the potential usage of a nuclear weapon against South Korea, Japan and the United States of America, including Guam and Hawaii. Hagel also stated that the United States would deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense anti-ballistic missile system to Guam, due to a credible and realistic nuclear threat from North Korea.

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