KW2: The Invasion of South Korea

Key Battles of American History

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🗓️ 15 January 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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On June 25, 1950, 150,000 soldiers of the North Korean People’s Army launched an attack across the 38th Parallel into South Korea. They quickly pushed the outnumbered, outgunned, and demoralized South Korean army southward and captured the southern capital Seoul and several other key cities. The United States rushed ground, air and sea forces to the region and set up a perimeter around the key port of Pusan, stopping the North Korean advance….for a while, at least. Join Evan and James as they narrate the exciting opening of the Korean War.

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0:00.0	War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding
0:10.7	right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its
0:16.4	size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.
0:24.0	Welcome to Key Battles of American History,
0:26.7	a podcast in which we discuss American history
0:28.9	through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.
0:32.7	Here is your host, James Early.
0:43.4	Thank you. host, James Early. Hello and welcome back to Key Battles of the Korean War, our 10,000-foot survey of the first
0:48.0	major conflict of the Cold War.
0:50.1	I'm your host, James Early, and I am joined by my co-host, Army veteran and military historian Evan Muxon.
0:57.8	Evan, how are you doing, sir?
0:59.4	I am doing, well, thank you for having me back and it proves that the negative comments were wrong.
1:05.8	Negative comments.
1:07.6	Well, so, yeah, things were moving in the direction of armed conflict last time,
1:14.3	weren't they, Evan? Yeah, you had two Tultarian governments that both wanted the same thing
1:20.6	just without the other one. Yeah, exactly. They both wanted, to use your analogy from last time,
1:26.2	they both wanted the whole donut, but each one only had half, so they're going to start.
1:31.2	Well, let's put it this way. One of the two is going to try to get that other half. So before we get into that, let's recap the last episode. I'm sure that in a lot of cases, it may have been a week since you heard our last episode.
1:45.3	So what did we talk about last time? Well, in our last episode, which of course is the first in the
1:50.1	series, we gave a very quick overview of Korean history from its beginning down through the end of the
1:55.6	Second World War, and then we slowed down a bit to focus in more detail in the years between
2:00.4	1945 and 1950.
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