When was the first war between the US and Korea?

Answer 1

The first conflict between the US and Korea happened 1871, a war noted by its belligerence. Five years earlier, in July 1866, a U.S. Merchant Marine ship, the General Sherman, a heavily armed ship with a mixed crew of U.S., British, and Chinese/Malay, including a Welsh/U.S. Protestant missionary, Robert Thomas, attempted to penetrate Korean waterways in pursuit of trade discussions and Christian evangelization. Denied permission to sail up the Taedong River leading to Pyongyang, the ship defied Korean authorities. Consequently, after four days of fighting, the ship was burned, and the 20 persons aboard killed.

In retaliation, the U.S. Navy and Marines invaded Korea in June 1871 with the warships Monocacy and Palos, three steam launchers, and about 20 support boats, with total crew of more than 1,000 sailors and marines, mostly Civil War veterans. The ships had departed Nagasaki, Japan on May 16. The U.S. Minister to China, Frederick Low, was on board. The expedition was commanded by a Civil War veteran, Admiral John Rodgers, who had had previous Far Eastern experience. Nearly 700 men landed at the Kanghwa beaches (25 miles north of presentday Inchon in west central Korea), partly to resume attempts at trade talks with the "last outstanding scoffer at Western civilization," but also to "avenge the insult to the American flag," and the earlier loss of the General Sherman and her passengers [William Elliot Griffis, "American Relations With the Far East," The New England Magazine, November 1894, pp. 269, 270]. The Koreans again resisted. But the U.S. forces insisted on vengeance and, in two days of heavy fighting, June 10-11, 1871, destroyed five forts and inflicted as many as 650 casualties on the defending Koreans, while suffering only three casualties of their own. The U.S. forces departed on July 3, obviously not having succeeded in establishing any trade with Korea.

Answer 2

The Korean War, which occurred between June 25, 1950 and a cease-fire on July 27, 1953, was a war between North Korea and South Korea. As no peace treaty has been signed, the two Koreas remain technically at war to this day.

Other combatants on the side of the North Korean communists were the People's Republic of China, supported by Soviet combat advisors, military pilots, and weapons. South Korea, was supported by United Nations (UN) forces, principally from the United States, although many other nations also contributed personnel.

In South Korea, the war is often called 6·25, from the date of the start of the conflict or, more formally, Han-guk Jeonjaeng (한국전쟁 "Korean War"). In North Korea, it is formally called the Fatherland Liberation War. In the United States, the conflict was officially termed a police action — the Korean Conflict — rather than a war, largely in order to avoid the necessity of a declaration of war by the U.S. Congress. The war is sometimes referred to outside Korea as "The Forgotten War", because it is a major conflict of the 20th century that is rarely mentioned in public discourse. In China, the conflict is known as War to Resist U.S.

For more details, please check website:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War

Answer 3

1950 - 1953 was the Korean War. But it wasn't a war between the US and Korea. It was a war between North Korea (backed by China) and South Korea (backed by the US).

There's never been a war between the US and Korea.

Answer 4

We've only been in one war with Korea, and technically, we're still at war with them. We've got a cease fire in effect since 1953. The 2nd Infantry Division has been on alert for the majority of that time just across the DMZ.

Answer 5

technically it wasnt a war between the US and korea... 1950 - 1953 was when it was.... i didnt know there was a 2nd.....