Summary.
In the Korean War China played a big part, fearful of the U.N entering China they sent 1 million troops to drive the U.N. away to protect communist North Korea.
The Korean War and Yalu River
- The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953
- A war between the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
- Primarily the result of the political division of Korea
- Divided the peninsula along the 38th parallel
- The North established a communist government, while the South established a capitalist one
- 38th parallel increasingly became a political border between the two Korean states
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