After the existential importance of World War II and before the highly publicized and protested Vietnam War, one of the first and bloodiest events of the Cold War took place relatively quietly on the Korean Peninsula. The Korean War occurred widely out of the eyes of the global public, receiving little media attention in the United States and very little protest from the people. On the Korean Peninsula, however, war was all-encompassing.
The superpowers of the Cold War used North and South Korea's fight for unification to further their own aspirations of global hegemony, at the cost of millions of lives. Global ignorance regarding the true events of the Korean War persist today, as it remains in the shadows of the infamous wars that preceded and succeeded it.
It's time for a history lesson. Read on if you want to know more about the Korean War.