The term Korean War refers to the warfare between North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) and South Korea (Republic of Korea) begun 25 June 1950 and paused with an armistice signed 27 July 1953.
The war occurred consequent to both countries aggressively attempting Korean national–peninsular reunification under their respective governments — because they occupied the immediate months before open warfare with escalating armed clashes at the 38th Parallel border, and the failed all-Korea elections. The negotiations ceased when North Korea invaded South Korea on 25 June 1950. The United States and UN Forces intervened for the South. After a rapid South Korean counter-attack reversing the initial North Korean invasion, the Chinese Army intervened for North Korea — deciding the war towards an armistice that approximately restored the original border between the Koreas. Since then, North Korea unilaterally withdrew from the armistice on 27 May 2009.
Although referred to as a civil war gone awry, other geopolitical factors counted. Each Korea was sponsored by an external power, thus international political obligations facilitated a civil war's metamorphosing into an hegemonic proxy war of the Russo–American Cold War (1945–91). The term Korean War also denotes the clashes before and since the war.
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