South Korea sent troops to the Republic of Vietnam, where they fought fiercely against the communist Viet Cong and the forces of North Vietnam. The conflict ended only with an armistice, so technically the Korean War has never been been fully resolved. North Korea was supported by China and the Soviet Union, while South Korea received military support from the United States, Great Britain and fourteen other nations under United Nations resolution 84. The Korean War was the first major conflict of the Cold War. North Korea invaded South Korea in June of 1950, with the resulting war between the two nations and their respective supporters raging until 1953. South Korea is officially the Republic of Korea (ROK or 대한민국), and was formed in 1948 when the peninsula was divided into North Korea (occupied by the USSR after WW2) and South Korea (occupied by the USA). The entire Korean peninsula was under Imperial Japanese colonial rule from 1910 until 1945.
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