North Korea ended the 1950-1953 Korean conflict bombed to smithereens, its land scattered with countless dead, and its key war aim — the unification of the peninsula under its leader Kim Il Sung — thwarted by the U.S. military and its allies.
seeks closer ties with its wartime allies, both of whom have complicated, sometimes conflicted relations with the mercurial Kim regime.’s own hyperactive propaganda machine, patriotic fervor is building to mark the anniversary.
Kim Jong-un, dressed in a black suit and backed by bemedaled officers in a military cemetery, laid a flower on a draped coffin topped with a submachine gun., a ritual which in the past has allowed Mr. Kim to showcase his most powerful new weapons as a threat and a warning to both Seoul and Washington.
In the south, leftist insurgencies faced brutal counterinsurgencies. Along the frontier, the 38th Parallel, skirmishes and incursions flared.launched an all-out invasion, spearheaded by Russian armor. It was halted in the southeast, as South Korean, U.S. and troops of allied nations rallied. In September, an audacious Marine landing at Inchon turned the tide. Kim’s defeated men fled.
Peace talks began in the summer of 1951, with Russian leader Josef Stalin secretly urging Kim and China’s Mao Zedong to continue fighting. Only after Stalin’s March 1953 death was the July armistice possible.’s narrative differs. In North Korean accounts, it is the American GIs who started the war, even though U.S. occupation troops had largely withdrawn from Korea then.
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