USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -3China and North Korea share a 1, 416-kilometre long border that corresponds broadly speaking to the course of the Yalu and Tumen rivers. These rivers have facilitated the drawing up of the borders, but the agreements between the two countries have not been without considerable tensions, mainly due to Pyongyang.

Detailed explanation-2: -United Nations Security Council Resolutions 83 and 84 provided the international legal authority for member states to restore peace on the Korean Peninsula, and they designated the United States as the leader of the unified command we know as UN Command.

Detailed explanation-3: -The U.S.S.R. backed communist leader Kim Il-Sung’s 1950 invasion of South Korea. When the invasion was beaten back, China sent a formidable expeditionary force into Korea, first to drive the United Nations Command out of the north and then to unify the peninsula under communist control.

Detailed explanation-4: -More than 30, 000 Americans died in the proxy conflict of the Cold War, in which the U.S. supported South Korea and the Soviet Union and China supported North Korea.