The Forgotten War: The Korean War
After a year of the Korean War there were ninety-seven Australian soldiers that had been killed, injured, or wounded at the Battle of Kapyong, which was one of the turning points of the war. The lives that were lost or changed because of this battle happened because they were “stalling the Chinese advance and preventing Seoul from falling into the enemy hands (Australian War Memorial, 2015).” This Battle was important because the United Nations, specifically Australia, had secured the capital of Seoul from falling to communism, although it did not last long. Over the span of a year after the battle the capital had changed ownership four different times between North and South Korea until peace negotiations were starting between the two sides. The last two years of the war had been fought in trenches on the sides of Korean mountains until the two sides came to a ceasefire agreement on July 27, 1953. The two countries made an agreement that “allowed the POWs to stay where they liked; drew a boundary near the 38th parallel that gave South Korea an extra 1,500 square miles of territory; and created a 2-mile-wide ‘demilitarized zone’ that still exists today (History, 2015).” Even though the agreement stopped the war, the two countries still have tension between one