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or you can get all of History Daily plus other fantastic history podcasts at into History.com. It's June 25th, 1950 in a small South Korean village close to the border with North Korea.

Local farmer Min Jun's son sits down for a much needed rest in the shade after a morning of hard work.

He wipes a sweat from his brow with his forearm, then takes a long drink of water from a bottle. As he does, he listens to the birds for a moment.

But that sound is soon interrupted by the rumble of engines.

Min June stands and squints into the distance, trying to find the source of the noise.

At first, all he can make out is a line of blocky silhouettes.

Then the shapes come closer, and he realizes what he can see is a line of tanks rolling over the

countryside. He watches and fascination as they get closer and then it hits him.

These aren't South Korean troops, they're North Koreans.

Min Jun drops his water and runs straight for his village.

He has to warn his neighbors before it's too late, but he's not fast enough.

As he approaches his village, the tanks behind him open fire.

Menjun flings himself to the ground.

The small buildings of his village are no match for the shelling.

So pressed against the earth, Menjun can only watch as his homes ripped apart.

Anxious smell of explosives invades his nostrils.

He can barely see anything through the smoke dust and fire consuming the village

but the screams of his neighbors are unmistakable.

This attack on a border village is just the start of a brutal conflict between North and South Korea,

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