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The Historical Context of the Korean Conflict

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“After five years of its independence from Japan, North Korea invaded South Korea on 25 June 1950. With China’s intervention, the Korean War became a brutal war between great powers in the Cold War era. Hence, the Korean War both brought about the division of the Korean peninsula as well as created a geopolitical power issue between the United States and China (Moon, 2018: 266)”.

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Moon, M. (2019). The Historical Context of the Korean Conflict. In: International News Coverage and the Korean Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6291-0_1

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