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Kim Il-sung of North Korea, with the approval of Stalin,commenced a surprise attack against Korea at dawn on June25, 1950. Kim Il-sung began war preparations in June 1949, whenthe U.S. pulled out its troops from Korea, and declared the"Acheson Line," which excluded Korea from its Pacificdefense perimeter.

The U.N. Security Council, convened immediately after theoutbreak of the war, defined the North Korean act of war as anact of invasion, and demanded North Korea to return to itsoriginal position. North Korea refused the U.N.'s demand. TheU.N. organized the U.N. Allied Forces comprising 21 membernations (16 nations sending troops and 5 nations providingmedical support), including the United States, the Great Britain,and Australia, among others.

In the early stage of the war, the North Korean army, with 4times stronger troops than Korea, was able to occupy threequarters of Korean territory in a month. But NorthKorean troops began to suffer from defeat and retreatednorthward, from September 15 the same year, when, the U.N. forceswere successful in landing on the coast of Inchon.

In October, North Korean troops were driven back to the farnorth, and the war appeared to come to an end. Then ChineseCommunist Forces intervened in the war, sending about 100,000troops across the border into Korea. U.N. forces began to retreatsouthward again, and the war came to a stalemate along the 38thparallel. The war came to a truce on July 27, 1953, after the twosides signed the Armistice Agreement.

The war resulted in killing and wounding about 6.6 millionpeople, destroying 900 factories and 600,000 houses, thusdevastating three quarters of the entire land of the Koreanpeninsula.

Maybe they don't remember how many Americans and other friendly solders died to save them from this.

I'm sure some of them remember. They just don't care. They like for us to die for them and they like our money. They just don't like us and want us to leave their country. If it was up to me we would.