![]() ![]() By late November, they had come within 40 miles of the Chinese border. His forces repelled the North Korean Army and rapidly advanced north across the 38 th Parallel into North Korea, capturing the capital Pyongyang. ![]() Men of the Durham Light Infantry barter with Korean children on their way to the front (IWM MH 32936). In September, UN Commander General MacArthur launched a daring amphibious landing at Inchon (now called Incheon), a port on South Korea’s western coast held by North Korea. Landings at Inchon, September 1950īy August, North Korean forces had overrun vast swathes of South Korea, with UN forces retaining a small defensive perimeter in the country’s south east, near Busan. Private Ron Pattison, 1st Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, is greeted on his arrival in Korea by American Sergeant First Class Robert Tutt (IWM MH 32723). They were joined by the troops of many nations, including Britain, Canada, Australia, India, Ethiopia, France and the Philippines. ![]() The newly-formed UN called on its members to protect South Korea, with US troops swiftly deployed. Their aim was clear: to reunify the Korean Peninsula as a communist state. On 25 th June 1950, North Korean forces crossed the 38 th Parallel into South Korea. Although the US and the Soviet Union withdrew their troops in 1949, tension between the two nations continued to mount. Due to concerns over ‘spheres of influence’, the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to divide Korea into two occupation zones: the communist Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the US-backed Republic of Korea (South Korea).ĭue to Cold War tensions, the zones became two sovereign states, divided at the 38 th Parallel, in 1948. ![]() Korea had been a Japanese colony from 1910 to 1945, when it was liberated by Allied forces at the end of World War Two. Private Dennis Bradley of the 1st Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, cleans his Lee Enfield Rifle (IWM MH 31591). But its origins lie in the Partition of Korea, which took place at the end of World War Two. The Korean War began on 25 th June 1950, when communist North Korea invaded South Korea. ![]()
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