
One of these exiles was a minor but successful guerrilla leader named Kim Il-sung, who had received some training in Russia and had been made a major in the Soviet army. The first was made up of committed Marxist revolutionaries who had fought the Japanese as part of the Chinese-dominated guerrilla armies in Manchuria and China. Most claimants to power were harried exiles in China, Manchuria, Japan, the U.S.S.R., and the United States. Unlike China, Manchuria, and the former Western colonies seized by Japan in 1941–42, Korea, annexed to Japan since 1910, did not have a native government or a colonial regime waiting to return after hostilities ceased. The Korean War had its immediate origins in the collapse of the Japanese empire at the end of World War II in September 1945. Revolution, division, and partisan warfare, 1945–50 Negotiations in 1954 produced no further agreement, and the front line has been accepted ever since as the de facto boundary between North and South Korea. After more than a million combat casualties had been suffered on both sides, the fighting ended in July 1953 with Korea still divided into two hostile states.

The United Nations, with the United States as the principal participant, joined the war on the side of the South Koreans, and the People’s Republic of China came to North Korea’s aid. The war reached international proportions in June 1950 when North Korea, supplied and advised by the Soviet Union, invaded the South.
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This is the story of the American tankers who rush to the aid of the South and the bloody battles they fight up and down the Korean Peninsula. In 1950, the world is caught off guard as North Korea launches a massive armoured assault into South Korea. A 2011 History Channel War Documentary narrated by Robin Ward.
