At the end of June 1950, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK, aka North Korea) invaded Republic of Korea (RoK, aka South Korea). The United Nations condemned the attack and essentially declared war by creating the United Nations Command (UNC), and designating the United States as the leader of the UNC.
At the end of July 1953, an armistice (a type of truce/ceasefire) was established, but it did not officially end the war. It is a true ‘Cold War’ that never ended.
Photo via U.S. Forces Korea, 02AUG2024.
On 02AUG2024, at a ceremony on Camp Humphreys in the RoK, NATO Germany became the 18th country to join the UNC operations: “By joining the UNC, we are contributing substantially to stability on the Korean Peninsula.”-Boris Pistorius, Federal Minister of Defense of Germany
U.S. Armed Forces Network (AFN) video report, recorded on 02AUG2024 but not released until 15AUG2024:
In 1954, the Cold War era West Germany established the Red Cross Hospital in Busan (aka Pusan), RoK.
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