The Korean War-we won it in more ways than the obvious.

    On June 25, 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea with the intention of engulfing the entire nation and making it Communist.

   It took a while before America could respond. We did and beat the N. Koreans back. 

   The North Koreans had help, though. In fact, the Chinese did the fighting. If you talk to veterans who fought in both Korea and Vietnam, they will tell you Korea was far, far worse. Much of it was due to the Chinese. They sent millions of men to the war. They had far more more weapons and men than our soldiers and marines did. They were a tough, relentless foe.

  So, really, the war was China trying to annex the Korean peninsula. (they did the same thing again, in Vietnam, and won that one). The South Koreans didn't care to be taken over by yet another set of Asian dictators. If it hadn't been for Americans and other nations fighting, the entire peninsula would be just another enslaved vassal state of China, like Mongolia and Tibet.
   At the end of the war, a cease fire..NOT a surrender...was arranged. The Korean peninsula was split in half.

   China assumed the cease fire was an appeasement gesture to their superior forces. 

   To the South Koreans, it was a happy ending. 

   For us, we got:  South Korea-a bustling economic dynamo of electronic wizardry and cutting edge technology.

  China has: North Korea, aka Kim Jung Un-a pompous, portly dictator who lives in luxury while his people eat grass, (if they can find it.)