Chinese Volunteers in the Korean War 1950–53
On 25 June 1950, North Korea launched an all-out attack on its southern neighbour, the Republic of Korea (ROK). Despite the Communists’ early success in driving the poorly equipped ROK Army and its US allies to the brink of disaster, the amphibious landing of US forces at Inchon on the western coast of the Korean peninsula forced the North’s Korean People’s Army (KPA) to retreat all the way to the Sino-Korean border.