Not Dead But Forgotten
The Korean War
by Kenneth L
http://plusultraspain.blogspot.com/
In North Korea, it’s known as the Fatherland Liberation War. In China, it’s called the War to Resist America and Aid Korea. In the US, it was long referred to as a “police action”, or the Korean Conflict, to avoid necessitating a declaration of war from Congress (though now “Korean War” is the generally acknowledged term). If anything, it is the Forgotten War, the one that people can generally name but don’t know anything about.
More than an expansionist war between North and South Korea, it was a proxy battleground where the major fighters were Communism and Democracy, climaxing the early tensions of the Cold War in a protracted and ultimately pointless fight that served for little more than to maintain the status quo in Korea. But what was the status quo, and how did it come to be the status quo?
