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the ordinary soldier finances the story the and iPad on the banks of this river in Korea in America Britain and the United Nations allies were locked in a battle with tens of thousands of communist troops what movie allies across the world fight here in Kerea only five years of the blood sugar the Second World War no I've been revealing the dramatic reversals in military courtroom for the armies of the capitalist West and the Communist use and telling the story of how events in Korea nearly spiraled out of control raising the specter up nuclear war the korean war was waged by men from different countries around the world many divided by ideology but also by the way they fought on one hand massive firepower on the other overwhelming numbers yeah I'll be telling the story of what it was like for the ground troops when these two very different armies clashed and describing the brutal fighting often waged in extreme conditions across the entire Korean Peninsula this is the story a mostly forgotten conflict I love the battle that took place here on the in June River during the communist Spring Offensive a a battle that was to be a turning point in the wall for Korea I'm on a journey to perhaps the world's strangers border the border between dole and South Korea right now I'm about to enter the South Korean side up before kilometer wide security zone that straddles the entire length of the bomb this zone is effectively a no go area policed by troops from the united nations marked out by Miles a barbed-wire fences and defended with land mines at the border itself there are no fences and gates here the border is simply mark by this block of concrete just the infuse hi get absolutely no one is allowed to step across up guarding the border on the south side stand the soldiers at the South Korean army immediately opposite the middle the North Korean army well one the only place along the entire border that the two sides are in direct communication his old baseball where a few huts literally struggle with bold strictly speaking standing here I'm in South Korean territory but if I step beyond this table here in phiri I'm inside North Korea were practically speaking beat mysterious country in North Korea lies beyond that guarded and locked dole over there so how can such a bizarre situation exists here well the fact is that North and South Korea are still officially at war and have been for more than half a century before the second world war the entire career in Peninsular was under control Japan when Japan was defeated victors divided the country along this month latitude here the th parallel be Soviet Union sponsored a communist regime up here in the North under criminal song is capital Pyongyang and the Americans put syngman re a fiercely right-wing nationalist in control South Korea in his capitol soul syngman really wanted to govern not just South Korea but the entire peninsula he wanted to unite North and South under a capitalist regime on in the loaf his opposite number and bitter enemy Kim Il Sung also wanted to unify the Korean Peninsula box under the banner of communism on on each man had his dream unifying Korea under his rule but neither room did very much a budget I'm chill just after a.m. on the th June when without any warning north korea invaded the side the within hours a hundred and thirty thousand-man the North Korean army were pouring across the border the North Korean army caught the south koreans utterly unprepared the south koreans could barely muster a fighting force here outgunned and overwhelmed by enemy tanks ill-equipped army were rapidly forced back even though we fired their guns at them the tanks were not damaged at all we could not destroy them you in a panic we couldn't resist the enemy it was terrifying in just hours the communist soldiers were poised to attack the South Korean capital sold like soul to the jewel in the crown of South Korea and the North Korean Army's attack on it were swift and certain the communist burst through these narrow streets meeting little resistance as they took control the north korean troops want the city and by June the twenty-eighth just three days after the invasion communist flags were flying over sold up but the north koreans didn't stop here in seoul they pushed on southwards aiming to take the whole Peninsula in the name of communism the cross rivers they traversed mountains time they defeated the week South Korean army every encounter the north koreans it was beginning to look like a walk over on you the West and its allies fear the LORD seizure love South Korea will be another Dane Russa bonds have communism throughout the world Documentary on and the West was determined to do something about it on the Americans took the lead in persuading the United Nations going to the defence on South Korea others should be doing and could have vetoed this proposal but they want their in the Soviet Union's absence vote was passed for the first time the United Nations was going to Wal on nations from around the world including Britain would send men and equipment to Korea but there would be no doubt as to who would be in charge American by far the biggest single course was in command fighting injury I was no longer a small skirmish in a far-flung country is a dragged in a superpower the within days allied troops began to flood into south korea the just American troops were the first to the UN forces to arrive in korea checked in from their bases in nearby Japan do and the answers here through careers southernmost court them signed when they landed they faced a desperate situation and it was getting worse because by now the South Korean army had almost totally collapsed under the advance of the north korean steamroller but the american troops virtually powerless to improve matters because these were not the same battle-hardened well-equipped man may have been victorious in the second world war we had a quick min left over from World War two most of which have been a warehouse a placement was from unserviceable to non-existent who very poor shape for everything who were not ready to fight a war pass along the shore up ok go just weeks after setting foot on Korean soil the American land forces faced a terrible humiliations the by now the north koreans control nearly the whole the Korean Peninsula and this man the american troops and their South Korean allies were packed into an increasingly tight corner an area that became known as the from San parameter on this was a tiny pockets a man just miles by fifty miles around the port abuse and in the southernmost tip of the peninsula everywhere else was in North Koreans united nations forces were surrounded and in danger of being pushed out of korea altogether on what was needed to rescue united nations forces from disaster documentary was a bold stroke from a decisive lead up and that's exactly what they got from the man in charge the American general Douglas MacArthur mccaw thought it was one of those commanders who was larger than life he was America's most decorated officer in the first world war and he would relish the fame he'd won leading the defeat of Japan in the second world war now the Korean War gave the aging general a chance to get another crime in but of a new that he was to push Kim Il Sung's communist army back into north korea you have to come up with a much more ambitious strategy who simply backing it out on the booze and bring it up one in world war two macarthur's greatest victories and military through amphibious landings sending troops in by sea to attack behind enemy lines such landings carry grave risks but because it was convinced he had mastered the technique like other not propose to use the same strategy in korea with a bold attempt to take the pressure office forces trapped in this show held in the southeast to the peninsula he would deliver amphibious hammer blow not down here on Prince at but a miles behind enemy lines to the northwest at the port city of inch on if you can season charm his troops could move on too so a mere miles in lawn cut the north koreans of from behind and force them to fight on two fronts here here the north koreans will be surrounded and crush but the landing at inchon would be a high-risk exercise the Bahamas city was placed at the endowment treacherous passage call flying fish travel where the tried raced in and out twice a day when the tide fell by meetings also the six feet vast month flats were exposed making an approach impossible the even when the tide was in the city was protected by high is she walls and a fortified Island above Obama name blow me down McConnell's plan code-named operation chromite was to assemble a bust naval force carrying seventy thousand US troops would brave the dangerous tides have been John harbour and land on the beaches the Marines would first have to take Key Beach at well miedo code-named green beach only possible joined a short window when the tide was high once the evidence title song will be down rest the landing force would have to wait a whole trial but still a time to rise again before they give us all Red Beach to live in job and Blue Beach what's up I'm sect form in September operation chromite was to be the largest amphibious landing since D-day many because his colleagues for his band near impossible wanna meet and said we drop a list up every natural and geographic handicap and in Sharm havel but Garber himself privately admitted his operation chromite was risky it was going to be a tough assignment for the crack US Marines hand-picked to carry out the operation think and what free be home the marine success hung on meticulous planning but when I went to visit the British Royal Marines aboard the HMS Albion I found out just how many factors can throw the best plan of calls there's the weather there's the tide has an impact but the sea state because the Americas in shock had real problems with sides very high tides just drill our gap between them how important is it to get the time is absolutely right well if we get it wrong then we're going to end up I the getting caught on said balls off shore a new york the mess even without absolutely a tide is too high that of course you may be actually slamming into the sea wall equally difficult to get people so timing it's absolutely crucial not win your landing craft are under way and you're on that landing craft will you guys how critical to use the covering fathers coming down on the enemy as you go to the beach the absolutely fundamental that's that's why all all distros operative have big guns on the front that's what they're for is the boy s that toy to get ashore but this will be a matter supreme concert the all the lads that allow on the landing craft and steaming into the beach wrecking ball thank you stockbridge something about it like bela leningrad on your way into a beach there will be guys that utterly disorientated they won't have a clue if a a there in exactly the right position what they gonna see when they get off get off the landing craft give up with that some will have been sick sobel BDZ some will be confused and frightened a huge leap right one of the crew the landing craft he's working up on Dec will be shouting to be just go meters to go the counting the dow a of course they get to meters to go by all studied up the dolls good get pushed open %uh they're just that they're waiting for the right to drop hit the beach rub goes down the ROM the US Marines waiting off the coast have been drawn we're about to go through exactly the same experience as are for the amphibious landing drew near no at around a.m. on the th September the actual landing part of the operation swung into action under the cover allied naval gunfire six British and American destroyers had already steamed into within a mile of the city bankers have a big guns confounded point-blank range on BOM Edo and the entire in John area on for two days inchon live in followed by aircraft dropping napalm on the north korean defenses I'm Habib I will choose no the no and they get more coverage via the landing prom use the high tide the sweep in from the scene and land on Windows green beach No through the chaos caused by the supporting fire way after wave landing craft headed for green bean smoke with boiling out have been shot the entire beach area simply disappeared in an enormous cloud of dust and smoke with only the occasional play Rock a first-choice No on it was just awesome on but as the first wave of marines approach green beach they were faced with a daunting cars scaling the throughput hi defensive soon-yi's under enemy fire com well this is green beach on warmer though today not quite the same side would agree to the first wave of US marines as they clambered up the seawall that on Korean War Documentary with the second wave of marines just four minutes behind they quickly advanced in lacked the landscape likened blasted by covering fire the Marines swept over the island meeting limited resistance and suffering few casualties in just two hours the marine's commander radioed the waiting fleets Wamego secured phase one of their mission had been accomplished I'm your marines the battle had only just begun as is tied for treated it took with at the landing craft their vital lifeline to the Allied ships out there had to dig in for the next hours they had an enviable task defending the island against a possible counterattack gnome it was vital the Marines held their ground only if they retained control at this crucial island good for the waves have landing craft move safely on the insurance I'm on they waited our after our for the tide to turn on waiting to defend against any North Korean counterattacking the new but the big attack never came on only at half past five too but I come back in I conditions were again favorable for the next phase of the american landings but from the channel on Red Beach health Marines with little resistance no but there was still one more beach to capture No no almost simultaneously the Marines assaulted here at Blue Beach about a mile south and Sean but things on Blue Beach didn't go quite a smoothly on out to sea twenty five separate assault waves informed but as they approach the show many of them were swept wildly off course by the strong currents the assault on Blue Beach was in disarray landing craft the risk of capsizing men in danger of drowning those who didn't make it through Korean War Documentary found the beach choked with smoke from the early in naval bombardment the actual lending conditions were terrible the city was on fire the rain was mixing with the smoke and fire the bombardment so it's very difficult time the beach some units got mixed up landing on the run beaches and we just had to get it all sorted out despite the problems there was no serious opposition to stop the Allied advance on they managed to push on through in Sean and further in Lambton their journey took them eastwood's liberating village after village rapidly crushing what little north korean resistance they met there bold attack behind enemy lines had been a resounding success in just days the man at the united nations army reach their target and recaptured the South Korean capital soul the war in Korea was taking a whole new turn by now the allied forces hidden down inside the Pusan Perimeter had been reinforced with fresh battle ready troops they broke out and thrust more he joined those who'd recaptured sold united nations forces could borrow attacked the north korean troops moved through directions Kim Il Sung's army was effectively surrounding and bring the collapse within just two weeks the allies apush tumbling North Korean army back over the th parallel back in from north korea it was an incredible turnaround the the two Koreas we're now back with a big gap divided by the paramount them the question but the UN allies was what to do next the United Nations could have ended the war right there but macarthur wanted to press on he didn't just want to pick communism out of south korea butt crush urging North Korea as well no he said the North should pay the penalty for invading the south heat urged the United Nations to take the war across the border yeah here that the end of September macarthur got his way more he was given the go-ahead that across the th parallel and push into North Korea the UN army would no longer repelling an invasion they had themselves become the invaders room Korean War Documentary them Korean War Documentary them Korean War Documentary the allied invasion North Korea began very well on october the seventh main body of the United Nations falls drove north which and within a month been overrun be company's capital cognac still a prestar scattering in the North Koreans who oppose them the united nations forces well now within reach a fulfilling macarthur's vision I'm a total victory over communism and the United anti-communist Karim word went to run the macabre had even promised each group would be home by christmas in a month's time you Christian his man talk know what threatened to awaken sleeping dragon macarthur's group when I'm fast approaching the Yahoo repin the border between north korea and communist China in the chinese leader mode seed Rome had been watching events in korea his new communist regime was India your own and far from secure now the United Nations army was rapidly approaching is eastern border as far as model is concerned this was blatant imperialist aggression and it had to be stopped in September you ordered the Chinese people's volunteer army into north korea led by command up under why their aim was to confront and crush the United Nations your but vast communism China had joined the wall I'll almost overnight the men at the united nations faced be very different enemy the Chinese were tough they were battle-hardened veterans have years of civil war experts in close quarters fighting and used to the rugged terrain what really set them apart is a fighting force they were highly politicized each man had to sign a pledge of commitment to the cause and each unit had to swear an oath to destroy imperialism they want to see we didn't wipe out the enemy in Korea now one day they will come back to china and we would lose everything we swap a trial thing the Communist cause I'm protect everything the revolution had one for us we won't ever going to be oppressed by imperious again in the chinese may have been rugged and determined but the real advantage lay in the ship vast miss about numbers your the UN on the other hand ride on completely different strategies rather than amassed you serve troops traveling swiftly and silently across open countryside the UN had fewer troops relying on Road bound tanks and artillery well if hillary was the key weapon that would form the bedrock of the allied battle plan down and I were given the chance to experience what it's like to be under live artillery fire when we visited the bomb bomb shelter of the British Royal School artillery converge a PD to Rams ask Mark fact bathroom call ones are farrakhan on bundled by do on even as bumpy cash feel the shock waves good good how critical is the archer is defending a position like this against imagine these waves are Chinese Aki absolutely vital the the contribution artery makes Indian delaying the enemy taking them out taking out large numbers which been absolutely critical with the chinese because they did to human my tactics I'm was vital I'm lease in effect for probably be about meters am in a circle taking people out I'll be killing them and then the actual damage will go out about two or three hundred meters stroll in not that effect will be continues day or night all first hours a day that's what you'll be safe you shake when the moon devastating I'll the even inside the reinforce Ponca we could feel the force of the explosions but was only out in the open that we could see the impact those explosions would have on enemy attack so the shells are basically just like giant hand grenades absolutely and that's the fact we're off to show breaks up into hundreds of fragments thousands of fact thousands a fragment there would have been black with those fragments not got some here which we fight today actually whole range the optimum some ways is probably this one and if you just look at that you see how heavy in shock August jagged edge what are those who kills a workload easily easily these two here would have taken this chap songs of this one here would have killed him that one up top is a serious head wound and the last one on here hurt easily and yet they came on the chinese they came almost through this tough waited numbers but is it coming forward you know they're encountering the comrades wounded injured screaming do they keep going to help them out what they do the whole time which is sapping the momentum after this attack way the but no matter how lethal the artillery fire it did little to stem the master tax at the Chinese army nope we swung into action like ads the enemy calmness overheated with the continuous use they began to misfire and could no longer hit that target in the end they would see so many people coming at them the word panic one after another United Nations positions were simply overwhelmed by wave after wave Chinese from on no on on some United Nations units Fort heart others fell back disarray generally morale collapse and to make matters worse a better career in winter setting by late November with the temperature well below zero degrees men have both sides were fighting at the limits of human endurance the chinese soldiers were wearing only lightly padded cotton uniforms and fame canvas shoes to protect them against the bitter cold the allies fared little better and much other equipment simply seized up. Korean War Documentary Korean War Documentary the men had to keep themselves away for fear freezing to death as they slept the first night the chinese have some lost min to frostbite the next afternoon I went down to the medical station the doctors for breaking of all those frozen told forceps never saw this minute ago I lost a whole platoon frostbite fighting a war in these dire conditions was not what these men is expected to make matters worse some american marines found themselves surrounded a place called choice saying despite relentless Chinese attacks the americans manage to fight their way out but elsewhere on the battlefield other soldiers couldn't cope without waiting for orders some turned around and fled removed had known how to skip to try to get to the point person it was discussed unbelievable never felt so ashamed all my life is to be a part of an army runway well allied defense is meh rumbling across practically the in style frontline United Nations generals had no choice they ordered a full-scale withdrawal and I'll it was the largest military withdrawal in US history as the Chinese drove south united nations army folded in front and by January the americans love their allies have been thrown back south of Seoul once again the South Korean capital was in the hands of the comment but this proved a step too far because the chinese have moved so far south their supply lines one man severely strained and the tide turned to get again the UN atomic one small bag and a portion of over the best week since allies more their way back to align just north of Seoul but just south of the Old Baldy after seven months see-sawing a Bunsen withdrawal once more the two sides were practically back to where they've been when the war began on the huge sweeping moves above two sides not been down the peninsula subsided into an apparent stalemate my but how to break the stalemate was the lead to a crisis at the very highest Korean War Documentary Korean War Documentary Korean War Documentary up the american leadership the american president harry truman did not want to do anything to escalate the war in Korea but general macarthur still demanded total victory over his communist enemy copper believe his presence policy was too timid and he was gonna say so loud and clear it all to achieve total victory he demanded that the war should be taken into china itself what MacArthur was proposing was not simply to attack China but to have the option I'm attacking it with nuclear weapons this me was threatening to go nuclear I mom with the gaza now publicly challenging Washington policy president truman had to make a decision and he made a brave one no I believe that we must try to limit the larger Korea where they via a reason to make sure that the precious lives of our fighting men are not wasted to see that the security of our country and the free world is not needlessly jeopardize and to prevent a third world were or I have therefore considered it is essential to relieve general macarthur know my brother is one of our greatest military commanders but the cause are world peace is much more important than any individual on macarthur's dismissal mark the and Aven here the end of the allied aimed to unite the two Koreas under a democratic flanked by I'm the my druthers job went to general Matthew ridgeway a man both liked and respected by his ground troops and a man who accepted the idea over divided korea which weighs aim was to establish a defensible I'm in the mountains and rivers just north of Seoul from where he could keep the communists obey with the chinese commander paying the way have an entirely different plans he wanted to demolish the Allied forces and throw a mother Correa once and for all unknown to the mainly British and American soldiers who were starting to dig in China's vast armies were preparing to launch a massive attack best spring offensive on Hey as night fell on the nd of April hundreds of thousands of North Korean and Chinese troops prepared to attack right among the battlefront marked here in the western section open into a by the engine River only thirty miles from sold these Chinese troops were masters and infiltration and concealment morale was high confident victory the chinese leaders told their men may be celebrating made a in streets of Seoul that night the Chinese took their positions along the banks of the engine and lay in wait for the order to mood no I'm the Chinese come on back paying the wages plan was for a huge coordinated attack practically from coast to coast and the a movie Spring Offensive to destroy the entire UN divisions I swamping that was she a way to numbers carving them up into small pockets and wiping them out one by one then he moved to recapture soul pay order being North Koreans to bring pressure on the east end of the line here but the main attack would be about Chinese themselves punching a hole through a light in three places against most the South Korean forces here american forces here and here in the west where I am now the Chinese was a large force up against the mainly British per day who are defending the historic invasion route to seoul across the in June River until now the Americans on South Korean troops Obama run to the swap but in the next few days the Minerva mainly British th brigade led by Brigadier Tom Brady will play a vital role the th brigades nine mile long front along be Indian River was pivotal if the Chinese reached the line in this position the Allied divisions either side would be exposed and the group the soul would be open vital importance with two river crossings with tracks leading to the capital just miles to the south seven hundred men of the Gloucestershire Regiment guarded this track from the hills just some other before which days are called close to crossing this convulsing and crack we're gonna buy another seven hundred men from a battalion of the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers in support both British battalions good call on the Royal Artillery spiel down back here all this possum tags in reserve him and some other units on either side were pardoned produce th brigade and everything in this region was under the overall her mom on the american flowed to be there were just four thousand men in the British th brigade finley's based and not years probably die again appreciably wall didn't injure to be defending such a crucial stretcher from advancing on them the entire chinese sixty-third army over , men the British were outnumbered by around seven to one p.m. on the nd maple first Chinese troops stuff to wade across this shallow section wat here but they were held back meets who hours by less than sixteen men proper tune of the Gloucester's fine from here on Southbank the an image to a Chinese it was pick in the water somewhere around two thousand men was an astonishing target permitted use up all orange of the haunting four separate Chinese assaults the British troops finally ran out of ammunition and had no choice but to pull back and rejoin a unit on was now nothing to stop the Chinese advancing further no throughout the night at the nd the label bus numbers a chinese soldiers succeeded in crossing the engine River that shit down there and pushing southward towards here this area known as consort Hill was held by around a hundred men the coasters a company they were in for a very long night go well for six hours on the bright moonlight and under the glare a parachute flares a company for two ferocious close quarters battle for control on this hill a like the again and again the Chinese attacked of it and again and again a company drove them back machine-gun and mortar fire all the time they received vital help from their artillery just over five miles away to the rail called on shells rained down in front of me a whole squad was blown to pieces and the bodies of dead and wounded scattered along the track and in a way to kill Iran be on that there are just fast as my legs are carrying them time the support not hillary was the only things slowing the Chinese advance like the no on in at first light on the rd of April things were looking decidedly bleak for the whole th brigade effectively looking grim right away along the whole allied live some miles over there to the east a South Korean division collapse %uh no Chinese pressure an American Commonwealth troops would desperately trying to plug the gap it made it all the more vital at the British th brigade held on here at all cars Northumberland Fusiliers godding Big East in a crackdown morella had found their four positions threatening Chinese had begun to gain by higher on here and the Fusiliers were being pushed back the line was weakening and the Chinese what infiltrating the gaps between the british position as for the gustos five miles from West bad a company will unable to hold out any longer on Castle Hill there was no other option the soldiers here reduced to just one officer and fewer than min but the pullback in joined the rest from Italian further south relying completely on supporting our children by they manage to retreat to a hill became known as Buster Hill by drawn on the next day the th of April you cha battalion reduced to around four hundred men all defending lost the hill against around ten thousand Chinese showed up and they were practically surrounded lineup because the situation was so precarious the th brigade commander brigadier brody scented a column tanks along this Malik in an attempt to blast his way through but the lead tank was it the netbook the Ruth and the attempt to break through the clusters had to be about all hope getting help for them evaporated that afternoon general show the American commander all the units in the area radio draws cock things were going brigadier brody incentive urgently requesting the Gloucester withdrawal replied simply that things were a bit sticky he couldn't have chosen a worse moment for a bit a british understatement the American general was given no idea how bad things really were answer your the th brigade to hold their position what followed was disaster no them no at p.m. Chinese struck Gloucester's Fort a bloody hand to hand battle and push back attack after attack the battle raged all through the night on that was the beginning at the end the globe the the entire th brigade was a breaking point if they didn't withdrawal they face death or captivity you check to get any relief to Gloucester's may have been blocked but over on the right little fumbles by the retreat was still clear brigadier brody and all attacks up the track risk of the night but the withdrawal became chaotic as the Chinese many swallowed track and climb on the British tanks crews have neighboring hanks foster homes each other's thanks obtain gun pop desperate attempt to dislodge cambric type questionable someone's was succeeded but only shop the clusters off to the west we left a perfect in the face of the rapidly advancing Chinese bring your bread had by now been forced to withdraw the offer generous supporting his troops one species Michael guns were signs Amendola Gloucester's really work at the mercy of the Chinese could bomb the men stranded just up there on the top and lost the hill were preparing for nearly impossible task they're gonna try and make a break for it but many had not slept or eaten for days I mean virtually no ammunition getting back to friendly lines would be an impossible task but the Gloucester's had little choice they set out across the enemy infiltrated stretch of land on what for many would be their final journey on the clusters that started the battle at the MGM with seven hundred men had been killed in the fighting only made it back to the safety of british lines that night nearly Gloucester's with taken prisoner it was a very same for a moment syringe I hated doing surrendering seem to go against everything that I thought soldiering should be about on the rest up twenty-nine brigade had fared little better than the clusters but those few days in April have taken their toll on the enemy to although regala bostick of servicemen is a destroyed nearly hoff the communist forces attacking them across the injured on right the way along the entire battlefront in career other British American and Allied forces for heroic battles over Rome it on the no one knows exactly how many the Chinese lost monday was in the tens of thousands my on communist offensive wrong to hold along the entire battle line it was to be the last major assaultive its kind the Chinese would never again notion attack on the scale of a spring offensive like the Americans they true had finally realized but mobile album could win control of the whole of Korea com while the allied crushing at the commonest spring offensive in great part along the Indian River did not end the fighting immediately it did bring both sides to the negotiating table on get when they first met on july the tenth nineteen fifty-one the few who could have had any including that the negotiations would drag on for over two years all this time the vicious battles for minor stretches a tactical ground continues and the casualty rate sold this increasingly few tile wall was to go on another two years before the fighting finally ended Korean War Documentary Korean War Documentary two sides agreed the position of the new border between them and they treat all traffic reminded me th parallel just about here well and on the th July they agreed a ceasefire I'll in three years of war for movement two million people have lost their lives and the country has been devastated and get border between north and south korea had barely chewing and was one even bigger the two sides have never signed a peace treaty the state of war between north and south korea still officially exists to this day careers two sides remain in a non easy stalemated North Korea is still one of the most undeveloped countries in the world and fiercely secretive South a border it's a very different story South Korea had developed into a vibrant and thriving democracy today the two Koreas may be vastly different but one thing hasn't changed the people of North and South Korea try to return to hostilities still looms fifty years after the cease-fire South Korean still plan for the worst around twice a year a siren sounds across the South Korean capital here in seoul it's a drill for the taking of immediate shelter in the event of a North Korean attack for a few minutes these city streets empty in readiness for returns hostilities for more videos like that please subscribe my channel