If the best minds in the world had set out to find us the worst possible location in

the world to fight this damnable war, US Secretary of State Dean Atchitzin once said,

the unanimous choice would have been Korea, and he was wrong.

The fighting that occurred during the Korean War, which lasted from 1950 until 1953, the

war itself is technically still ongoing, would be characterized by many things, uncompromising

to rain, lack of space for land invasion, freezing winners, humid muggy summers, frostbite

and disease.

In an enemy, so ruthless that some of their deeds are better suited for a true crime

episode than a military history one.

And both sides could say that of the enemy.

It wasn't just the communist aggressors that were massacring civilians and committing war

atrocities.

At the end of the Second World War, Korea, which had formerly long been occupied by the

Japanese Empire, was divided somewhat arbitrarily along the 38th parallel, effectively chopping

it up into today's North and South Korea.

In the wake of World War II, both the United States and the Soviet Union came up with what

they thought to be a great plan for figuring out the ideal path to Korean self-determination.

One would take one portion of the peninsula, one would take the other, and then they would

occupy each and help figure out how to create a government and a constitution, and all those

good things with the opposite side overseen it.

Does that sound like a great plan when each side could not be more ideologically opposed

to the other?

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