The very messiness of definition and outcome in Korea has contemporary resonance, given the difficulty of imagining what a ...

The United States was caught by surprise when heavily-armed North Korean troops and tanks poured into South Korea on June 25, ...

The Korean War was the first “hot war” of the Cold War between the Soviet-led communist world and ... And its inconclusive end signaled the triumph in U.S. policy of containment over liberation.

GIMPO, South Korea (AP) — Prisoners of war held for decades after the fighting stopped. Civilian abductees. Defectors.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung vowed to establish lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula Wednesday as the country ...

The Korean War was wedged between World War II and Vietnam -- and often gets lost to history. Here's everything you need to know.

Harry Truman. The Truman administration’s “loss of China” would play a significant role in the decision to move from a policy of containment to rollback and together with its allies invade ...

Containment was not particularly successful during the Cold War, and it is also unlikely to work well against China today. In reality, more than anything else, it was the Soviet Union’s own errors and ...

It was a war — like the Korean War — fought by the United States to assist a post-World War II ... was viewed by U.S. policymakers within the context of the larger policy of containment, ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his family joined others in a cleanup of the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., underscoring the need to remember the nation’s history in the ...

The Korean War, one of the most pivotal and harrowing conflicts of the 20th century, left an indelible mark on the Korean Peninsula and the world. Between 1950 and 1953, ...