The war broke out on June 25, 1950 when North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel, invading South Korea. North Korean leader Kim Il-sung launched the attack once he had received a promise of ...

American military leaders, including General Douglas MacArthur, were caught off guard by the entrance of the People’s Republic of China, led by Mao Zedong, into the five-month-old Korean War.

Military spending not only has national and global impacts, it affects the economy too. The United States spends more on the ...

The Korean War, often referred to as "The Forgotten War," was fought from June 25, 1950, to July 27, 1953. This website is dedicated to thanking and honoring all the veterans of the Korean War ...

Dozens of South Korean adoptees, many in tears, have responded to an investigation led by The Associated Press and documented ...

The investigation, in collaboration with Frontline (PBS), was based on interviews with ... grew out of the wreckage of the 1950-53 Korean War, when Americans took in the unwanted biracial children ...

She has learned of a Korean cultural concept called “han,” an existential and endless grief, born from colonization, war, poverty and ... with FRONTLINE (PBS). The investigation includes ...

Many adoptees have discovered that their adoption paperwork was untrue, and their quest for accountability now has spread far ...

20 on PBS and online. ‘Illicit practices of a ... said they’d received a calling from God to save Korean War orphans. Until ...