Frosch said the news marks the first time since the Korean War that the team would not make the air show rounds.

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It was the first direct artillery attack since the 1950-1953 Korean war.

BBC: Q&A: Kaesong Industrial Complex

South Korea, he points out, opened its first exchange in 1956, only three years after the Korean war.

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President Truman in the early postwar years had chopped defense spending to the bone, so we fought the first two Korean years living off quartermaster stores leftovers from World War II.

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California's huge defence and aerospace industry grew first from the second world war, then from the Korean war and the cold war (and, beyond the scope of this book, finally the Vietnam war).

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On Sunday it was announced that the two Koreas would march together at the Olympics for the first time since the armed truce that ended the 1950-1953 Korean War.

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It was the first meeting of the leaders of the two countries since the end of the Korean War.

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