East Asia · Animated schematic fronts
Korean War
War on the Korean Peninsula; the endpoint is the armistice, not a peace treaty.
Schematic front lines based on standard overview maps of the main phases; movements in between are smoothly interpolated and are not a day-by-day reconstruction.
Estimates & margins
- Deaths2.5m – 4m
Most of the dead were civilians; estimates differ because records are incomplete and because of the treatment of missing persons.
Historians disagree on exact figures; the range shown reflects the scholarly literature.
North Korean invasion across the 38th parallel.
- South Korea and UN forces
- North Korea and China