Equipped with Soviet tanks and bolstered by a cadre of combat veterans returning from the Chinese Civil War, North Korea's army launched its surprise offensive against the Republic of Korea on June 25, 1950. Within days Seoul, the South Korean capital, had fallen and by August, the remnants of the South Korean and US Army forces had been pushed into an area around the port of Pusan, their backs to the sea. Greatly reduced in size from its World War...
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