

By that point, though, the machinery of confrontation was in full gear. The United States shot down three more floating objects in the following days, then announced that there was no sign that any of them were connected to China. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who was preparing to board a flight to Beijing, called off his trip and, on February 4th, as the world watched, an F-22 shot down the balloon off the coast of South Carolina, where it sank, like a strange emblem of this precarious moment. The Korean Peninsula is still divided, with military personnel from both North and South Korea occupying the demilitarized zone (DMZ).Joe Biden’s national-security aides were recently at work on a secret mission-how to get the President safely in and out of Ukraine’s capital, ahead of the anniversary of Russia’s invasion-when they got word of a problem closer to home: a suspected Chinese spy balloon had been spotted in U.S. The war ended with virtually no change in the border. The Korean War ended three years later, with millions of casualties.

The West-the United Kingdom and the U.S., supported by the United Nations-supported South Korea, while communist China and the Soviet Union supported North Korea.

The Korean War was a proxy war for the Cold War. The two Koreas engaged in border conflict, which escalated when North Korea invaded South Korea on June 25. troops occupied the southern part, while Soviet troops occupied the northern part. After Japan’s defeat, the victorious Allies split the peninsula on the 38th parallel. The Empire of Japan had occupied the Korean Peninsula during the war. The Korean War was a conflict that emerged after World War II. supported the Republic of Korea (commonly called South Korea), in repelling an invasion from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (commonly called North Korea). On June 27, 1950, the United States officially entered the Korean War.
