The Aftermath Of The Korean War

Aftermath of The Korean War.

The Korean War was a conflict between North Korea and South Korea that lasted from 1950 to 1953. The war was fought over the division of Korea, which had been separated into two countries after World War II. North Korea was backed by the Soviet Union and China, while South Korea was supported by the United States and other United Nation countries. The country's tensions rose up to a full scale conflict when Soviet and American troops were removed from their countries.

The Korean War had been able to shape the nations into how they are today- separate. The conflict that had led them to this point because of how frustrating it was to reunite the nations without some kind of disagreement from both sides

The new border was known as a Demilitarized Zone, which basically meant it was an agreement North and South Korea cannot do anything relating to military activities there, which can prevent any other wars happening. This ending for the Korean War also pertains to America and China, seeing that they have involvement in the conflict. After the Korean War, even though North and South Korea had their conflict soothed, America and China had not solved theirs until 1973, 20 years after the war had initially ended. (Huckelberry, 11)

Not only that, all sides had suffered major losses of thousands of troops had died or suffered from injuries. North Korea had come out of the battle with the most losses, an estimate of 1.5 million was made for the most soldiers they had that were wounded. Compared to everyone else that had fought in that battle, the Koreans walked away with more injuries and deaths than anyone else, which ranged from civilian casualties to military casualties. The number of those Koreans had rounded up to almost 2 million in total dead or

China was the second militia that barely had as many deaths as the Koreans had, which was just less than 200,000 troops that suffered any casualties.

This encouraged certain changes in some militias, like America’s. The budget for spending on the U.S Department of Defense had a huge increase, by billions of dollars during the war, which President Eisenhower described as the military industrial complex. The Korean War actually helped to expand the military industrial complex for the U.S, which may excuse the amount of casualties and heavy losses they suffered. (Huckelberry 11)

The number of casualties the countries involved in the war could have been way less than it is but the war itself was highly unavoidable due to many factors prior to the fighting. Some of the factors had to do with the tensions that rose at the border between North Korea 5 years prior to the war.

The physical fight for South Korea had started on June 25, 1950 when North Korea had invaded the 38th parallel, which was the border dividing the 2 countries. This was the major event that had caused the war and all of the effects that had come afterwards, which still left the Koreas divided, many being killed and the conflict not having an established end to it