On June 25 1950 Communist North Korean troops broke the peace agreement and invaded the Republic of Korea. The Korean war was the first war which the UN played a military role1. The Korean war proved to be a huge challenge for the UN, which was created only five years earlier at the end of World War 2. The UN demanded the North Koreans to withdraw from the South and called it a violation of international peace. The …
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…keeping an isolationistic policy with millions of North Koreans dying each year from starvation, while the South is having a booming economy with great ties to the world economies. To this day there has been great speculation that the North may one day invade once again but perhaps if they do, in the 21st century the South Koreans along with the free world will capture and end the communist rule and one day reunify Korea.