KR>  i do seem to recall, although i wasn't that old at the time, that it 
KR> started off as a korean civil war with the south getting the rough end of 
KR> the stick. the un cavalry charged in and turned the tide, and that would 

 PE> What happened was the North invaded the South,

that sounds rather like a civil war

 PE> the yanks hopped in and got slaughtered, the North almost took over
 PE> the whole of Korea, then the UN reinforcements came in and drove the
 PE> North right back, so that the South had almost taken over the whole
 PE> of Korea, then the Chinese came in, and drove our forces back down
 PE> again.  

sounds rather similar to what i wrote, mcarthur went further than his
mandate from the un, got china involved, caused several thousand allied
casualties, and was sent packing.

 PE> They stopped at the halfway mark when the US threatened to go
 PE> nuclear. 

not quite, the chinese + the n koreans nearly drove the un out, the un
fought back up to the 49th parallel. there then were several months
(years?) of talks leading to an armistice which is still in force today.

                            keith
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