📌 The Korean War began on June 25, 1950 with North Korea’s invasion of South Korea and ended with an armistice on July 27, 1953, leaving the peninsula divided without a permanent peace treaty 📊 More than 1.7 million US troops, 56,000 British troops, 26,791 Canadian troops and over 21,000 Turkish troops served during the war, which claimed more than 508,000 North Korean and 178,000 South Korean military casualties #koreanwar #southkorea #northkorea