Operation Chromite – How MacArthur’s Daring Inchon Landing Turned the Tide of the Korean War - MilitaryHistoryNow.com
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“Allied commanders were aghast. As one naval officer involved in the planning famously recalled, ‘we drew up a list of every natural and geographic handicap—and Inchon had ’em all.’” By Walter Topp THE WAR WAS...

September 15 is the anniversary of The US Invasion of Korea in 1950. After the end of Japanese occupation of Korea, Korea was broken in half, much like Germany. North Korea was a communist nation supported by China and the Soviet Union led by a popular resistance fighter against the Japanese, and South Korea was ruled by the brutal right wing dictator Syngman Rhee supported by the west. Obviously these two Korean governments had trouble coexisting.

In the autumn of 1949, South Korean forces began attacking North Korea along the border. The Australian reporter Wilfred Burchett had this to say:

“According to my own, still incomplete, investigation, the war started in fact in August-September 1949 and not in June 1950. Repeated attacks were made along key sections of the 38th parallel throughout the summer of 1949, by Rhee’s forces, aiming at securing jump-off positions for a full-scale invasion of the north. What happened later was that the North Korean forces simply decided that things had gone far enough and that the next assault by Rhee’s forces would be repulsed; that- having exhausted all possibilities of peaceful unification, those forces would be chased back and the south liberated.”

The North drove south, and the South Korean regime immediately started murdering hundreds of thousands of sympathetic civilians in retaliation. But by September, North Korea had liberated nearly all the peninsula and the reunification of Korea was in sight. The US and its cronies couldn't tolerate a communist Korea, so they launched a full scale invasion in order to prop up their dictator.

In the largest amphibious assault since Normandy, the US landed tens of thousands of troops backed by hundreds of ships. China was forced to come to the DPRK's aid. After years of war and millions of deaths, Korea remains divided, and is technically still at war, as the South Korean dictator refused to even sign the armistice. He proceeded to keep murdering his people right up until the 90s (while blaming the deaths on North Korea), and South Korea is still aggressively supported by the US to this day. The South Korean regime says that there's no point opening old wounds, and nobody has faced consequences. The US calls this the forgotten war, but still continues to rattle its sabre and flood the media with propaganda.