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The 2nd Korean War

The 2nd Korean war was a 3-month long conflict between the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It would be a conflict that would see hundreds of thousands die in a conflict that would bore no conclusive results. A conflict that would only see some limited adjustments to the status quo. A war that would see the service of many prominent US officials who would later gain fame in the global war on terror such as General Alexis Alexander a mere major at the time who would distinguish herself defending a US outpost from overwhelming odds.

The cause of the war was a simple provocation one of many by the North Koreans. Only this one would see the Forces of the ROK fire back. Things could have de-escalated but the leader of the DPRK saw a chance to reunite the peninsula, under one rule, and that was a chance the North took.

That mobilization of the DPRK could not go unnoticed by intelligence organs of the US and South Korea. Their response was the reinforcement of US troops and the call-up of reserves in order to counter the recent aggression of the North. Nobody in Washington or Seoul really thought the north was going to attack. It would cost them dearly. Even as artillery pieces was dragged into position and the DPRK moved to full wartime mobilization. It would not be until the opening barrage on the lines on combined command of the US and ROK forces when the North intention was truly realized.

The opening barrage on the lines of the combined US and ROK forces was awe inspiring. Thousands of shells, 130mm rockets, and a few missiles, rained down across the length of the DMZ the onslaught rocked the defenders back onto their heels, cracking the defenses in several locations. It was followed by hundreds of thousands of North Korean infantrymen and thousands of armored vehicles. Yet despite serious losses among the forces of combined command. They North Koreans would only advance 5 miles suffering heavy losses to forward deployed ROK infantry units before the forces of the ROK, and the US began to react. Across the entire DMZ, North Korean units threw themselves against the firing lines even as USAF and ROKAF units established air superiority blasting their way through the antiquated North Korean airforce. But, numbers did count for something and across the DMZ and sheer weight of numbers sometimes overwhelmed the best efforts of the American and ROK forces. American tank and mechanized units found themselves being overrun even as they destroyed fifteen or twenty times their numbers. Most American units, thanks to their mechanized nature, managed to avoid being completely wiped out, even as they ran out of ammo attempting to fight off the huge numbers of North Korean Infantry. ROK units, especially the purely Infantry formations, however, were far less fortunate, forced to stand and fight, often in hand-to-hand conditions, across positions saturated in deadly chemicals. Some ROK BRIGADES were wiped out to a man, normally taking at least one, often two, and sometimes even 3 DPRK divisions with them.

Fighting on the routes to Seoul was especially fierce, as a huge number of Koreans, Northern, and Southern struggled for supremacy. Outnumbering the defenders more than three to one the DPRK attempted to overwhelm the Southerners by sheer force of numbers. For their part, the ROK troops, fighting on ground that they had drilled on for years, yielded ground only when wiped out. Almost no ROK troops surrendered; generations of propaganda coupling, in many cases, with stories learned on Grandpa’s knee about the horrors of the DPRK's POW camps and what had been done to some family member,

For their part, DPRK troops were never given the opportunity to take prisoners. Prisoners, the Secret Police explained, would slow the advance. Anyone slowing the advance, for any reason, would be guilty of High Treason. Coming from a country where failing to have a LARGE ENOUGH picture of the Dear Leader on display was ground for imprisonment, none of the NK soldiers dared to do anything but drive forward, killing all they encountered lest they are deemed to be moving too slowly.

In the end, the combination of factors, ranging from the massive amounts of artillery being used by both sides, the equalizing effects of fixed fortification, and the fear of the troops on both sides, made for combat of almost medieval quality. Edged weapons and entrenching tools became weapons of choice as ammunition was exhausted and resupply failed to appear as promised.

Despite the massive numbers advantage, the superiority of allied units especially American and Korean mechanized formation allowed the line to hold even if severely pressed, the furthest North Korean breakthrough was stopped 7 miles into the ROK.

A generation of the Peninsula’s best and brightest would destroy itself during the 2nd Korean war.

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This post has been edited by GDSpathe: 8 May 2017, 21:37

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