(Outdated) The Korean War with flags: Every Day

This video will show the front lines of the Korean War from when North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel and invaded South Korea on 25 June, 1950, to when the Korean armistice agreement was signed, on 7 July, 1953.

Sources:

Wikipedia
Map from The Blank Atlas

Music: The Descent by Kevin MacLeod

Licensing:

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License

00:00 1950
00:54 1951 and beyond

[shuhratkessikbayev]

The fact that the Korean peninsula was momentarily entirely communist and capitalist is both scary and cool at the same time

[DrOfReckoning]

My grandfather was an US sniper in this war. The war shook him to his core and to this day he wouldn’t talk about anything that took place during the war, it is a very sensitive topic to bring up around him and I am almost positive he suffers from PTSD through it was never officially diagnosed by a doctor.

[KaitoWasTaken]

That moment when north korea occupies the city where you live-

[ares]

The whole war was just "Hold up, there is more." in disguse

[VortexDimonder]

Imagine all those people dying in that war just to find out it ended where it started.

[CadetGriffin]

I almost misread the title as "The Korean War with frogs: Every Day".

[Guerrero]

Love South Korea from Colombia!
🇨🇴🤝🇰🇷

[venus-ju]

Just right after the independence… we fought against each other. What a tragedy :(

[Calfis_Gamer]

Excellent video bro
All people have a good day

[geckozattack]

My great grandfather was a tank mechanic in this war, its interesting seeing how it played out

[nothinghere]

Korean War be like :
North Korea : haha die
South Korea : oh no
US and UN : we got your back!
South Korea : haha die!
North Korea : oh no
China and ussr : we got your back!
North Korea : haha die!
South Korea : no u
North Korea : no u
South Korea : no u
North Korea : no u
South Korea : no u
North Korea : no u
South Korea : let's peace for now
North Korea : ok

[유야멍TV]

6.25 전쟁에 참여 하신 참전국 분들 덕분에 우리나라가 지금까지 살아있을수 있었네요. 정말 감사드립니다.

[clement]

My french grandfather fought in this war as part of the French volunteer corps of the UN, and lost an eye in Heartbreak ridge near Chorwon. He often told me how friendly the korean people were to him and he never had any regrets volunteering to go there. I wish I could have come with him to visit this country before he passed.

[PatriciaSantos]

North Korea:in gonna win
UN:O mae wa mo shendeiru
North Korea:Nani
China:Helo

[venus-ju]

The battle at the front lines when they were working on the agreement to cease the war was the most intense just to take up at least one more hill before they chooses where to split. Many of the hills were took over by north korea and south korea many times, the owner changed everyday. A lot of soldiers died, they were both wishing the war to end.

[loyalbeaver]

When it comes to Chinese intervention in the War, there are lots of finger-pointing between those viewing the war from different vintage points. Before anyone accuses anyone of "re-writing history", it behooves the accuser to first do some research into what the history is supposed to look like by relying on academically credited resources.
Here are some scholastic consensuses in the West on Korea War related issues that are not generally touched on in popular media:
*1, prior to the war, both Koreas were actively preparing for war and determined to conquer each other by military means.* No credited historians question the fact that South Korea under the dictatorship of Rhee Syng-man was just as hell-bent on militarily crashing the North as Kim was on crashing the South. His government was so antithetical to the division of Korea that South Korea government took no part in the subsequent peace negotiation and didn't even sign the truce in 1953. Rhee never recognized the 38th line and various plans had been drawn up by South Korea of invading and annexing the North.(Since South Korea's democratization in late 1980, these plans had been declassified.) The only problem was the South Korea army was much weaker due to the less-than-abundant American military aids/weapon transfer. (In contrast, the Soviet sponsored the North lavishly.) While the North attacked first, the intention of eventually crossing the 38th line and vanquishing the other side on battlefield was the same for both sides.
*2, Kim Il-sung started the war without China's knowledge.* Kim and CCP were indeed allies. The former lent the later substantial support when CCP was on defensive in Manchuria under the KMT's onslaught during 1946-1947. When CCP finally turned the tiding around in Chinese Civil War in 1949, Kim approached Mao and asked for reciprocal support in the upcoming Korean Civil War. To Kim's chagrin, Mao sternly warned him against starting a war, pointing out the fact that unlike the Chinese Civil War, which was purely a domestic affair, the 38th line was legitimized by the UN resolutions. Crossing the line inevitably risked Great Power's intervention. The disappointed Kim went to Moscow instead and acquired Stalin's approval. When North Korean launched sudden attack on June 25th 1950, CCP leadership was as caught off-guard as the South Koreans were.
*3, CCP's interests and intentions were aligned against being dragged into Korea War in 1950.* The Battle of Hainan, the last major battle of Chinese Civil War only ended in May 1950. KMT, though having largely retreated to Taiwan, was still in control of many groups of islands right off the Chinese coast, where it stationed its army that was still half a million strong. Its powerful air-force and navy completely dominated the air and sea and regularly bombarded the Mainland targets. In vast parts of Southwestern China, where CCP marched in only a few months before, the disintegrated Nationalists forces were reorganized in to guerrilla bands and continued to wage mobile wars against CCP, giving the latter a taste of its own medicine.(The assortment of anti-Communist forces had 2 million fighting men in 1950, and compelled CCP to launch the "Banditry Elimination Campaigns", which lasted into late 1952.) At the time the CCP's attention and resources were entirely dedicated to consolidating its control of the Mainland, building its air-force/navy from scratch, readying its force for the "liberation" of Tibet, and preparing for the upcoming Battle of Taiwan, which was planned to be launched in the summer of 1951. The last thing CCP wanted was being dragged into a foreign war before the final defeat of KMT. Even more nightmarish for CCP was the scenario of American intervention into the Chinese Civil War on the side of KMT. The need to avoid such occurrence was the primary reason why Mao strenuously tried to dissuade Kim from stirring up trouble in Korean Peninsular while the Chinese Civil War was still raging on.
*4, US sent its fleet into Taiwan Strait immediately after the war's outbreak.* The fact Kim took the matter into his own hand without informing CCP did not register with the Americans, who saw the Communist world as a monolithic block, where all Communists were puppets of Moscow and co-conspirators in every scheme. (Such block-based perception was also the catalyst for America's intervention in Vietnam War a decade later.) On June 27th, two days after the war's outbreak, Trumen ordered the 7th fleet to sail into Taiwan Strait and declared the inclusion of Taiwan into America's strategic defense circle in the Pacific. From CCP's perspective, it was an act of naked aggression - the USA, despite its emphatic assurance of non-intervention in the Chinese Civil War, (as pronounced in its official White Paper issued in August, 1949, ) now blatantly went back on its own words and started its interference without any provocation from CCP.
*5, CCP only moved to preparing intervention after the UN force pushed north of the 38th line.* There had been debates among the Allies as to whether to stop at the 38th line, or to cross the line only to further destroy the North Korean army and then withdraw back to the South, or to push for the complete destruction of the North Korean state and the annexation of all its territories into the South. General MacArthur most adamantly insisted upon the last option and he prevailed in the end. It represented a controversially "expansive" interpretation of the UN mandate, which simply defines the objective as "stopping aggression" - obliteration of North Korea as a country is NOT on the mandate. It also ignored CCP's repeated warnings that China would not "sit and watch" should the UN force cross the 38th line and invade the North. On Oct1st, UN force crossed the line. On Oct. 8th, CCP's Politburo reached the decision of sending in PVA. On Oct 15th, MacArthur assured Truman the Chinese were simply posturing and the UN forces would secure the Chinese Border in the next few days and the soldiers would return home before Christmas. On Oct. 19th, PVA crossed the Yalu River. The rest is history.
*6, Kim Il-sung would enter Manchuria should he be defeated in North Korea.* Pursuant to the existing treaties signed between CCP and Kim's party (initially in 1947 then again in 1949), in the event of Kim's defeat on Korean Peninsular, CCP was obligated to permit Korean Communists to retreat to Manchuria, where it could regroup and set up a guerilla base as it did in WWII. Further more, Stalin gave CCP the explicit instruction that Kim should rebuild his force in Manchuria if he was forced out of North Korea. That eventuality would be disaster for CCP and China in general for two reasons: firstly, it would significantly undermine China's sovereignty in Manchuria, given that Kim would operate as a "state within state", enlisting support from local Korean ethnic minorities. (It would bear direct analogy to the Palestinian Liberation Organization's retreat to Jordan, and later Lebanon, after its expulsion by Israel. The PLO's creation of a "state within state" led to both war with Jordan and the Lebanese Civil War.) Secondly, it would likely trigger MacArthur's invasion of Manchuria, justified by the same "expansive" interpretation of the UN mandate. Given the UN forces ignored the Inter-Korean border in pursuit of Kim, there was little reason to believe they would definitely stop at the Chinese-Korean border should Kim retreat to Manchuria. CCP was in no position to defy Stalin by refusing Kim's entry. The only effective strategy of forestalling its happening was to NOT let Kim be pushed out of North Korea.
*7, even without Kim's retreat to Manchuria, there were many signposts suggesting the US might be planning to use Korea as the springboard to launch direct invasion of Mainland China in coordination with KMT.* General MacArthur visited Taiwan on July 31st, where he made some dramatic speeches on solidarity with the Nationalists in common struggle against the Communists. There was also the discussion on airlifting Nationalist divisions directly to Korea. (Remember, this happened without CCP's provocation, as it was still 2 month and 1 week before the CCP finally decided to participate in Korean War.) KMT propaganda made maximum hay of the visit, proclaiming it as the beginning of Chinese Civil War Phase II, where KMT would fight alongside Americans to take the Mainland China back, starting from Manchuria. Chiang Kai-shek himself was thrilled at such a prospect and made numerous public proposals. (Ever since KMT's loss of Mainland China, its propaganda machine had been dialed up to 11, blaring out assertions 24/7 that the defeat on Mainland was merely a temporary setback, and the US would join the war soon, and the counter-attack was imminent.) The war plan KMT drafted up involved deploying four Nationalist army groups to Korea to attack across the Manchurian border in conjunction with a massive amphibious assault simultaneously launched from Taiwan. Blessed with hindsight, we know now that Truman eventually overruled MacArthur and refused to endorse Chiang's attempt at escalation. CCP leadership in the summer of 1950 did not know that. With American soldiers a stone's throw away from the Yalu River, the prospect of American invasion of Manchuria on behalf of & in coordination with its KMT allies did not at all seem far-fetched - America's unprovoked intrusion into the Taiwanese Strait heralded that, General MacArthur publicly discussed that, KMT itself openly mobilized for that - what more convincing did the CCP leadership need? If the Americans, in their determination to crash Communism in both Korea and China, was bent on making CCP the next target anyway, getting the Americans bogged down in Korea before they could cross the Chinese border would naturally be the most sensible surviving strategy for CCP.

[ТоматныйСуп]

Love South Korea from Tajikistan 🇹🇯💗🇰🇷

[Jonatas]

The time for peace in this place is passed!

[Forever-JSL]

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[라이벌하는_잼민이]

I'm Korean and you perfectly portrayed the Korean War! Pray for those who died then I don't want to imagine that hell...나는 한국인이고 당신은 한국 전쟁을 완벽하게 묘사했습니다! 그때 돌아가신 분들을 위해 기도합니다 그 지옥을 상상하기