The United States, the United Nations, and the Second Occupation of Korea, 1950-1951

This article is part of an ongoing series at The Asia-Pacific Journal commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the start of the US-Korean War.Amidst the chaos surrounding North Korea's military offensive in the summer of 1950, the United Nations Security Council passed a series of resolutions which gave the United States-led United Nations Command (UNC) sanction to occupy the Korean peninsula. A crucial element of the work of this occupation - the second of southern Korea since 1945 - dealt with refugees. By August 1950, as the territory under United Nations Command jurisdiction shrank and came to centre around the Kyŏngsang provinces, South Korean authorities reported that the northern advance had displaced well over one million people

Geography · History of the United States · Political science · Sociology · Demography · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Law