{"id":2871,"date":"2010-06-25T09:30:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T08:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2871"},"modified":"2010-06-25T09:30:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T08:30:48","slug":"korea-the-unfinished-war-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=2871","title":{"rendered":"Korea: the unfinished war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy years ago today, my parents were celebrating my second  birthday and North Korea commenced the invasion of South Korea. It is  astonishing how little people today know about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/history\/worldwars\/coldwar\/korea_hickey_01.shtml\">Korean  War<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It lasted three years and, in territorial terms, finished exactly as  it had started with the 38th parallel dividing the two Koreas.\u00a0  Technically the war is not over. No peace treaty was ever signed;  instead there was simply a truce and, to this day, South Korea has not  actually signed it.<\/p>\n<p>The toll of dead and wounded was horrendous.\u00a0 Probably about two  million military personnel were killed (around 400,000 of them Chinese)  and some two and half million civilians were killed or injured.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides committed terrible atrocities. The US commander General  MacArthur urged the use of nuclear weapons (but was overruled by  President Truman) and the Americans probably used germ warfare.<\/p>\n<p>When the war began, living standards in North Korea were higher than  those in South Korea. Today North Koreans are literally starving, while  South Korea is a developed country. But North Korea still lays claim to  the South, it recently sank a South Korean boat,\u00a0 and it may be  developing a nuclear bomb.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more detail about the Korean War <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Korean_War\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seventy years ago today, my parents were celebrating my second birthday and North Korea commenced the invasion of South Korea. It is astonishing how little people today know about the Korean War. It lasted three years and, in territorial terms, finished exactly as it had started with the 38th parallel dividing the two Koreas.\u00a0 Technically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2871"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4687,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions\/4687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}