Summarize the importants events that led to the Korean war

After world war 2 the kores where split into two. one soviet and one democratic but kim jun il1 did not want it this way he wanted a united Korea and invaded but he lost the war the reason why he was not tailed was because his war was backed by Russia and china.

Korea was conquered by Japan during World War II. At the end of the war, Korea was partitioned at the Thirty-eighth Parallel into democratic South Korea and communist North Korea. The Korean War (1950-1953) was a United Nations effort to assist South Korea, which had been invaded by the army of North Korea. The administration of Harry S. Truman had pressured the UN Security Council for a resolution to use military force-UN troops and ships, led by the United States-to defend South Korea.