North Korea attacked South Korea on June 25, 1950, igniting the Korean War. The North aimed to conquer the South to unify Korea under the communist North Korean regime.
Concerned that the Soviet Union and Communist China might have encouraged the invasion, President Harry S. Truman committed United States air, ground, and naval forces to the combined United Nations forces assisting the Republic of Korea in its defense.
North Korea’s invasion of South Korea, however, hardened the Philippine stand against communism. On September 7, 1950, Republic Act 573, or the Philippine Military Aid to the UN Act, was signed into law, making possible the sending of a Filipino expeditionary force to South Korea to help repel the communist aggression. The country sent 7,420 soldiers to South Korea over a five-year period, among them the late President Fidel Ramos and two former ambassadors to South Korea, the late Col.
North Korea joined the NPT in 1985 as a non-nuclear-weapon state. But it withdrew from the Treaty in 2003 and began developing nuclear weapons. “This is a significant size improvement over prior North Korean nuclear weapons, and possibly design advance,” George William Herbert, an adjunct professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies, said on Twitter about the warheads shown in the photos released by the Kim government.
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