His second term was a disaster a sputtering economy, a war in Korea that he couldn't win or abandon, and petty corruption.
Ironically, it's the great external Godzilla of a war in Korea that could be the catalyst that brings this cozy world of inefficiency and stagnation crashing down.
The hard lessons learned in places like Tarawa and Guadalcanal served the U.S. well when Marines turned the tide of war in Korea years later by mounting a daring amphibious landing at Inchon, behind enemy lines.
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War in Korea would likely spark a massive exodus of North Korean civilians along its porous 1, 300-kilometer (800-mile) border, which in turn could lead to a humanitarian crisis or unrest that the Chinese government would have to deal with.
He thought we could wage a low-key, limited war in Vietnam la Korea: leave the North Vietnamese in power in the North, and fight to save only the South.
For forces deployed defensively, using limited active-duty units and relying on rapid mobilization in the event of warforces such as those in NATO (especially during the Cold War) and in South Korea and Israel-time is of the essence, and mobilization delays can have strategic consequences.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) The Cold War still rages in North Korea, and enemy No. 1 is the United States, which Pyongyang blames for making its much-condemned drive to develop nuclear weapons necessary.
It extends beyond a shared interest in military hardware, to a mutually reinforcing policy of threatening the U.S. A signal event in this relationship took place in 1989, shortly after the end of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War, in which North Korea supplied weapons, including knock-offs of Soviet Scud missiles, to Iran.
When dealing with traditional prisoners of war, as the United States did in World War II, Korea, and even Vietnam, it was reasonable to err on the side of leniency and treat detainees with deference and respect.
Having hundred of combat missions in World War II, Korea, and Viet Nam, he knew about making decisions in high-stress environments.
"No one can say a war will break out in Korea or not and whether it will break out today or tomorrow, " said the spokesman for the General Staff of the North's Korean People's Army (KPA).
Just as in the Cold War, holding the line in Berlin and Korea was not just about those places alone.
On Veterans Day 2010, speaking to servicemembers, their families, and American and Korean veterans who served in the Korean War from Yongsan Army Garrison in Seoul, South Korea, President Obama explained some of the ways his Administration is working to make sure veterans have the care and benefits they need when they return home.
The Secretary-General presented the Organization with a natural science textbook printed by UNESCO in 1956 and distributed to school children, Ban Ki moon among them, in post-war Korea.
Australia has been a staunch ally of the United States, fighting side by side with the U.S. in World War II, Korea, Vietnam and the first Gulf War, and Howard argued that Australians should always remember that no nation is more important to our long-term security than that of the United States.
When North Korea said on March 5 it intended to nullify the armistice agreement that brought conflict in the Korean War to an end in 1953 and threatened to attack Seoul, South Korea's military made a rare and forceful response.
The North has warned foreigners in South Korea to take precautions in case of war.
As a vital ally to South Korea since the Korean war in the 1950s, the United States has pledged military backing to Seoul in the event of an attack by North Korea.
It's the second high-profile American visit this year to North Korea, a country that remains in a state of war with the U.S. It also comes two weeks after North Korea conducted an underground nuclear test in defiance of U.N. bans against atomic and missile activity.
The answer cannot be that we are at war with the former but not the latter: The U.S. is also technically at war with North Korea, which in May declared the 1953 armistice null and void.
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After the second world war, Korea became just a pawn in the cold war.
And he was there for America, in Korea, as the war neared its third and final year.
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In the meantime, it is keen to keep a lid on a row that could draw its 37, 000 troops in South Korea into a war with a possibly nuclear-armed North.
Anger in South Korea and China was fueled by visits to a controversial war shrine by cabinet members in April and then by comment Mr. Abe made on Japan's wartime role.
After all, we had only 40, 000 troops in South Korea, while at the height of the Vietnam War we had had more than 500, 000 in Vietnam.
When that war was won, and as another raged in Korea, our countries forged a new alliance.
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In 1955, President Eisenhower said that if North Korea did not negotiate in good faith to end the war, he would remove all restraints in our use of weapons.
In frigid Korea, we fought in combat boots and field jackets left over from World War II.
The South is still technically at war with North Korea, as the conflict ended in a ceasefire and not a peace treaty.
Apple smartphones have been losing out in the sales war with rival Samsung from South Korea and first quarter sales show the gaping divide.
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