The Vietnam War: The Korean War

The Korean war, was it really a war to forget? After Korea was free from Japanese colonization on August 15, 1945, the country was left confused politically, hence the country was divided into two political governments: communist and capitalist. The Korean war (1950-1953) was a bloodshed that should not be forgotten because of its destructiveness and because of the effects it had on China, North and South Korea and America.
About 1.3 million people (soldiers and civilians) were “killed, wounded [or] abducted to the north” and the war resulted in “some one million orphans and 600,000 war-widows” (Koo and Nahm). It was so destructive that families were separated and still today, there are still Koreans yearning to be reconnected with their lost families. Whilst taking the lives of others, the Korean war caused Korea to split into two countries because neither side was able to compromise into one big government. After Korea was split into two countries: North Korea and South Korea, the North Koreans, with the help of the Soviets had rapidly developed their economic system. However, the years prior to the “end” of the war, the North Korean economy had slowed down “bringing shortages of food, capital and raw materials” (Koo and