CSPAN3 Korean War 70th Anniversary July 12, 2024
Democratic republic. Two years ago, a United Nations commission supervised free elections south of the 30th parallel and the republic of korea, a sovereign, democratic nation, was born. In may 1950, the citizens of this young republic went to the polls again to exercise their democratic rights to choose their government under their democratic constitution. Even as the citizens of the korean republic voted in free the north korean communist leaders were boasting of their intention to unify the country by force. And this was the target, they partly mountainous peninsula and the 20 million peacel...