Why The Korean War Was One of the Wildest In History
Over twenty nations, battles for both capitals, and huge shifts in momentum
The Korean War is known as The Forgotten War. Despite featuring six million combat soldiers and nearly three million civilian deaths, very few people know any details about this conflict. For three years, over twenty nations fought a brutal war that swept across the Korean Peninsula from end to end. You can still see the results of the war on a map, the highly contentious Demilitarized Zone that separates North and South Korea. Technically, North and South Korea never signed an official peace treaty, so the two nations can still be considered at war. (This fact rears its ugly head every few years when skirmishes break out between the two Koreas.)
The Korean War was one of the wildest wars to be fought in the modern era. It had some of the biggest momentum swings in history. Armies literally marched from the northern border separating North Korea from China to the far southern coast. Unlike the current war in Ukraine or World War I, the front lines during the Korean War varied and moved at breakneck speeds.
Two capitals were occupied, and a massive amphibious landing took place at Inchon. The United States duked it out with China, giving the world a taste of what World War III…
