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Korea
Korea

Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries, a civilization, and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia....
's military history spans back thousands of years, beginning with the early struggles of the nascent Kingdom of Gojoseon
Gojoseon

Gojoseon was an ancient Korean kingdom, considered the first proper nation of the Korean people. According to the Samguk Yusa and other Korean medieval-era records, Gojoseon is said to have been founded in 2333 BC by the legendary Dangun, who is said to be the grandson of Heaven ....
. Its long history consists of the many successful repulsions of major invasions and wars of resistance to foreign occupations. With the notable exception of Gwanggaeto the Great's expansion into northern China in the 4th century AD and the anti-piracy campaigns against Japanese coasts in the 15th century AD, Korea has seldom conducted any significant military invasion of another nation.






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Korea
Korea

Korea is a geographic area composed of two sovereign countries, a civilization, and a former state situated on the Korean Peninsula in East Asia....
's military history spans back thousands of years, beginning with the early struggles of the nascent Kingdom of Gojoseon
Gojoseon

Gojoseon was an ancient Korean kingdom, considered the first proper nation of the Korean people. According to the Samguk Yusa and other Korean medieval-era records, Gojoseon is said to have been founded in 2333 BC by the legendary Dangun, who is said to be the grandson of Heaven ....
. Its long history consists of the many successful repulsions of major invasions and wars of resistance to foreign occupations. With the notable exception of Gwanggaeto the Great's expansion into northern China in the 4th century AD and the anti-piracy campaigns against Japanese coasts in the 15th century AD, Korea has seldom conducted any significant military invasion of another nation. Koreans take pride in their country's continuous survival and existence for thousands of years and on its military campaigns against foreign invasions. Sterling examples of Korean military prowess are the major campaigns during the time of the Three Kingdoms
Three Kingdoms of Korea

The Three Kingdoms of Korea refer to the ancient Korean empire of Goguryeo, and kingdom of Baekje and Silla, which dominated the Korean peninsula and parts of Manchuria for much of the 1st millennium CE....
 (namely Goguryeo, Baejke, Silla), as well as those of the subsequent Kingdoms of Unified Silla, Balhae, Goryeo, Joseon, and more recently, military developments in both North and South Korea. Throughout her history, Korea has boasted many exceptional generals and military commanders who undertook victorious military campaigns against numerically superior enemies. Chief among them are Gwanggaeto the Great and Eulji Mundeok amd Yeon Gaesomun of Goguryeo, Kim Yu-Shin of Silla, Dae JoYoung of Balhae
Go of Balhae

Dae Jo-yeong , also known in Korea as Emperor Go , established the state of Balhae, reigning from 699 to 719. His origin is heavily disputed ; most Korean scholars believed that he was of Goguryeo heredity, but most scholars in China believed that he was of Mohe ancestry....
, Jang Bo Go
Jang Bogo

Jang Bogo , also known as Gungbok, rose to prominence in Korea in the late Unified Silla period as a powerful maritime figure who for several decades effectively controlled the Yellow Sea and Korean coast between southwestern Korea and China's Shandong peninsula....
 of Unified Silla, Gang Gam-chan
Gang Gam-chan

File:Kang KamChan Admral.jpgGang Gam-chan was a medieval Korean people government official and military commander during the early days of Goryeo Dynasty ....
 and Yoon Gwan
Yoon Gwan

Yoon Gwan was a general of Goryeo who was known for training a seventeen-thousand man army and leading it to victory against the Jurchens tribes....
 during the Goryeo period, and Yi Sun-Sin
Yi Sun-sin

Yi Sun-sin , also commonly transliterated Yi Soon-shin or Lee Sun-shin, Korean language: ???) was a Korean naval commander noted for his victories against the Japanese navy during the Japanese invasions of Korea during the Joseon Dynasty....
 during the late Joseon dynasty.

Today, both North and South Korea field some of the largest and most lethal armies in the world. On one hand, North Korea is widely suspected of having nuclear weapons, as well as other weapons of mass destruction. South Korea, for its part, is equipped with a sophisticated conventional military with state of the art weapons. In addition, South Korean troops actively participated in the Vietnam War
Vietnam War

The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina Wars, the Vietnam Conflict, or often in Vietnam the American War occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia from 1959 to April 30, 1975....
 and are currently serving in various UN peacekeeping missions around the world. The South Korean military enjoys military alliances with other countries, particularly the United States.

Military history


Gojoseon
Gojoseon

Gojoseon was an ancient Korean kingdom, considered the first proper nation of the Korean people. According to the Samguk Yusa and other Korean medieval-era records, Gojoseon is said to have been founded in 2333 BC by the legendary Dangun, who is said to be the grandson of Heaven ....

  • Yan Chinese
    Yan (state)

    Yan was a state during the Western Zhou, Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods in China. Its capital was Ji .During the first years of the Zhou Dynasty, Yan was located near the Yellow River, but after the failed revolt led by the leaders of the Shang Dynasty, the fiefdom was relocated further north in what is now Hebei Province t...
     Invasion and counter-offensive of 4th Century BC
  • Han Chinese
    Han Dynasty

    The Han Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. The Han Dynasty was ruled by the family known as the Liu clan who had peasant origins....
     Conquest of Wiman Joseon
    Wiman Joseon

    Wiman Joseon was the part of the Gojoseon period of Korean history. It began with Wiman of Gojoseon's seizure of the throne from Gojoseon's King Jun of Gojoseon and ended with the death of Ugeo of Gojoseon who was a grandson of Wiman....
     - 108 BC


Proto-Three Kingdoms of Korea
Proto-Three Kingdoms of Korea

Proto-Three Kingdoms of Korea refers to the period after the fall of Gojoseon and before the maturation of Goguryeo, Baekje, and Silla into full-fledged kingdoms....

Goguryeo
Goguryeo

Goguryeo or Koguryo was an ancient Koreans Empire located in the northern and central parts of the Korean peninsula, southern Manchuria, and southern Primorsky Krai....
  • Continuous attacks on Chinese border
  • Gongsun Du
    Gongsun Du

    Gongsun Du was a general of the Late Eastern Han Dynasty. He did not get the opportunity to really get into battle until Dong Zhuo seized power from Emperor Shao ....
    's Campaign against Koreans-190
  • Goguryeo-Wei Wars
    Goguryeo-Wei Wars

    Continuing its expansion to the northwest, Goguryeo began large-scale, organized attacks against the Chinese, as well as conquering neighboring statelets such as Okjeo and Dongye....
    -244
  • Lelang Conquest-313
  • Xianbei
    Xianbei

    The Xianbei were a significant nomadic people residing in Manchuria and eastern Mongolia, or Greater Khingan. They were descendants of Donghu before migrating into areas of the modern Chinese provinces of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, and Liaoning....
     Invasion


Baekje
Baekje

Baekje , or Paekche , was a kingdom located in southwest Korea. It was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, together with Goguryeo and Silla....
  • Malgal Invasion
  • Jinhan
    Jinhan confederacy

    Jinhan was a loose confederacy of chiefdoms that existed from around the 1st century BC to the 4th century CE in the southern Korean peninsula, to the east of the Nakdong River valley, Gyeongsang Province....
     Conquest
    Jinhan Conquest

    Shilla, the most powerful statelet of the Jinhan confederacy, conquered each of the other statelets and later became Silla....
     by Silla


Silla
Silla

Silla was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, and the longest sustaining dynasty in Asian history. Although it was founded by King Bak Hyeokgeose of Silla, who is also known to be the originator of the Korean family name Park , the dynasty was to see the Kyungju Kim clan hold rule for most of its 992-year history....
  • Mahan
    Mahan confederacy

    Mahan was a loose confederacy of statelets that existed from around the 100BCE-300CE in the southern Korean peninsula in the Chungcheong Province....
     Conquest by Goi of Baekje
    Goi of Baekje

    Goi of Baekje was the 8th king of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. He was the second son of the 4th king Gaeru of Baekje and younger brother of the 5th king Chogo of Baekje....
  • Attack from Wa
    Wa (Japan)

    Japanese language , is the oldest recorded names of Japan. Chinese, Korean, and Japanese scribes regularly wrote Wa or Yamato "Japan" with the Chinese character ? until the 8th century, when the Japanese found fault with it, replacing it with ? "harmony, peace, balance"....
  • Gaya - Silla Wars
    Gaya - Silla Wars

    The Gaya-Silla Wars were a series of conflicts between the ancient Korean Kingdom of Silla and the Gaya confederacy.Silla began as one of the six ruling clans of Saro....


Gaya
  • Campaign with Silla against Baekje


Three Kingdoms Period
Three Kingdoms of Korea

The Three Kingdoms of Korea refer to the ancient Korean empire of Goguryeo, and kingdom of Baekje and Silla, which dominated the Korean peninsula and parts of Manchuria for much of the 1st millennium CE....


Goguryeo
Goguryeo

Goguryeo or Koguryo was an ancient Koreans Empire located in the northern and central parts of the Korean peninsula, southern Manchuria, and southern Primorsky Krai....
 campaigns

  • Campaign of Geunchogo of Baekje
    Geunchogo of Baekje

    Geunchogo of Baekje was the 13th king of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. He reigned over the apex of Baekje's powers....
    : Conquest of Pyongyang
    Pyongyang

    Pyongyang is the Capital and largest city of North Korea, located on the Taedong River, at . According to preliminary results from the 2008 population census, it has a population of 3,255,388....
  • Baekje Campaign of Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo
    Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo

    Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo was the nineteenth monarch of Goguryeo, the northernmost of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. His full posthumous name roughly means "Very Greatest King, Broad Expander of Territory, buried in Gukgangsang.", sometimes abbreviated to Hotaewang or Taewang....
  • Attack from Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo
    Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo

    Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo was the nineteenth monarch of Goguryeo, the northernmost of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. His full posthumous name roughly means "Very Greatest King, Broad Expander of Territory, buried in Gukgangsang.", sometimes abbreviated to Hotaewang or Taewang....
    • Gaya Confederacy
      Gaya confederacy

      Gaya was a confederacy of territorial polities in the Nakdong River basin of southern Korea, growing out of the Byeonhan confederacy of the Samhan period....
       Campaign
    • Goguryeo–Yamato War


Campaigns of Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo
Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo

Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo was the nineteenth monarch of Goguryeo, the northernmost of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. His full posthumous name roughly means "Very Greatest King, Broad Expander of Territory, buried in Gukgangsang.", sometimes abbreviated to Hotaewang or Taewang....

    • Xianbei
      Xianbei

      The Xianbei were a significant nomadic people residing in Manchuria and eastern Mongolia, or Greater Khingan. They were descendants of Donghu before migrating into areas of the modern Chinese provinces of Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, and Liaoning....
       Campaign
    • Malgal Conquest
    • Khitan
      Khitan people

      The Khitan people , or Khitai, were a nomadic people, originally located at Mongolia and modern Manchuria from the 4th century. They dominated a vast area in northern China by the 10th century under the Liao Dynasty, but have left few relics that have survived until today....
       Conquest
    • Buyeo Conquest


Goguryeo, Baekje-Silla alliance War

  • Campaign of Jangsu of Goguryeo
    Jangsu of Goguryeo

    King Jangsu of Goguryeo was the 20th monarch of Goguryeo, the northernmost of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. He was born in 394, the eldest son of Gwanggaeto the Great of Goguryeo....
     against Silla and Baekje
  • 475 : Invasion of Baekje-Silla
    Silla

    Silla was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, and the longest sustaining dynasty in Asian history. Although it was founded by King Bak Hyeokgeose of Silla, who is also known to be the originator of the Korean family name Park , the dynasty was to see the Kyungju Kim clan hold rule for most of its 992-year history....
     alliance
  • Campaign of Baekje-Silla-Gaya
    Gaya confederacy

    Gaya was a confederacy of territorial polities in the Nakdong River basin of southern Korea, growing out of the Byeonhan confederacy of the Samhan period....
     armies against Goguryeo
  • 554 : 1st Baekje (with Gaya Confederacy
    Gaya confederacy

    Gaya was a confederacy of territorial polities in the Nakdong River basin of southern Korea, growing out of the Byeonhan confederacy of the Samhan period....
    )-Silla War(Battle of Gwansansung)- 554
  • Gaya Confederacy
    Gaya confederacy

    Gaya was a confederacy of territorial polities in the Nakdong River basin of southern Korea, growing out of the Byeonhan confederacy of the Samhan period....
     Annexation -532/562


Other conflicts
  • 498 : The Baekje Conquest of Tamla
  • 512 : The Silla Conquest of Usan


Goguryeo-China Wars (598-668)

  • 1st of Goguryeo-Sui Wars
    Goguryeo-Sui Wars

    The Goguryeo-Sui Wars were a series of campaigns launched by the Sui Dynasty of China against the Goguryeo kingdom between 598 and 614. It resulted in the defeat of Sui and contributed to its eventual downfall of the dynasty in 618....
    -598
  • 2nd Goguryeo-Sui War-612
  • 3rd Goguryeo-Sui War-613
  • 4th Goguryeo-Sui War-614
  • 1st Goguryeo-Tang Wars
    Goguryeo-Tang Wars

    The Goguryeo-Tang Wars occurred in the 7th century between Korean Goguryeo and an allied Chinese Tang Dynasty and Silla. Exhausted from numerous attacks by China, Goguryeo finally succumbed to a two front attack by Tang and Silla....
    -645
  • 2nd Baekje-Silla War -642


Goguryeo, Silla-Tang alliance Wars
  • 3rd Baekje-Silla War-660 (Collapse of Baekje)
  • 2nd Goguryeo-Tang War-661
    • 2nd Silla-Tang Invasion of Goguryeo-661 and 662
  • 3rd Silla-Tang Invasion of Goguryeo-667
  • 4th Silla-Tang Invasion (Collapse of Goguryeo)-668


Silla-Tang war (668-676)
  • Other rebellions from Baekje and Goguryeo people
  • Battle of Maeso fortress


North South States Period
North South States Period

North South States Period refers to the period in Korean history whenSilla and Balhae coexisted at the south and the north.North-South States Period of which the north state is Balhae and the south state is Silla because the unification by Silla was imperfect, and the people of destroyed Goguryeo had established Balhae....


Early period (700 - 820)
  • Battle of Cheonmun-ryeong - War of Foundation-698
  • Tang campaign-732
  • Balhae-Silla Conflict
  • extension of Balhae's sphere of influence over the Malgal


Unified Silla
Unified Silla

Unified Silla or Later Silla is the name often applied to the kingdom of Silla, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, when it conquered Baekje in 660 and Goguryeo in 668....
 (820 - 935)
  • Campaigns of Jang Bogo
    Jang Bogo

    Jang Bogo , also known as Gungbok, rose to prominence in Korea in the late Unified Silla period as a powerful maritime figure who for several decades effectively controlled the Yellow Sea and Korean coast between southwestern Korea and China's Shandong peninsula....
  • Kim Heonchang
    Kim Heonchang

    Kim Heonchang was the leader of an aristocratic rebellion in early ninth-century Unified Silla. He was a seventh-generation descendant of Muyeol of Silla, and thus bore the "true bone" status in the Silla bone rank system....
     Rebellion
  • Red Pants Rebellion
  • Ajagae
    Ajagae

    Ajagae was a military leader in the Sangju area during the waning years of Unified Silla. He led a local rebellion which seized Sangju. He is remembered today primarily as the father of Gyeon Hwon, the king of Hubaekje....
     Rebellion
  • Gihwon Rebellion
  • Yanggil Rebellion
  • Later Three Kingdoms
    Later Three Kingdoms

    The Later Three Kingdoms of Korea consisted of Silla, Hubaekje , and Taebong . The latter two were viewed as heirs to the earlier Three Kingdoms of Korea, which had been united by Silla....
    -900~936
  • Khitan Invasion(Collapse of Balhae)-926


Goryeo Dynasty


Goryeo wars
  • Northern Expansion
  • Goryeo-Khitan Wars
    Goryeo-Khitan Wars

    The Goryeo-Khitan Wars were a series of 10th- and 11th-century invasions of Korea's Goryeo Dynasty by the Khitan people Liao Dynasty near the present-day border between People's Republic of China and North Korea....
    • First Goryeo-Khitan War
    • Second Goryeo-Khitan War
    • Third Goryeo-Khitan War
      Third Goryeo-Khitan War

      The Third Goryeo-Khitan War was an 11th-century conflict between the kingdom of Goryeo and Khitan people forces near what is now the border between China and North Korea....
       (see also Battle of Kwiju)
  • Campaigns of Gen. Yoon Gwan
    Yoon Gwan

    Yoon Gwan was a general of Goryeo who was known for training a seventeen-thousand man army and leading it to victory against the Jurchens tribes....
     against Jurchens
    Jurchens

    The Jurchens were a Tungusic peoples who inhabited the region of Manchuria until the 17th century, when they adopted the name Manchu. They established the Jin Dynasty between 1115 and 1122; it lasted until 1234 when the Mongols arrived....
     (see also Korean-Jurchen wars
    Korean-Jurchen wars

    Timeline of the Korean-Jurchen wars...
    )
  • Mongol invasions of Korea
    Mongol invasions of Korea

    The Mongol invasions of Korea consisted of a series of campaigns by the Mongol Empire against Korea, then known as Goryeo, from 1231 to 1270. There were six major campaigns at tremendous cost to civilian lives throughout the Korean peninsula, ultimately resulting in Korea becoming a vassal of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty for approximately 80 year...
  • Sambyeolcho
    Sambyeolcho Rebellion

    The Sambyeolcho Rebellion was a Korean rebellion against the Goryeo Dynasty that happened at the last stage of the Mongol invasions of Korea....
     contend against Mongols
  • Mongol invasions of Japan
    Mongol invasions of Japan

    The of 1274 and 1281 were major military invasions and conquests undertaken by Kublai Khan to take the Japanese islands after the capitulation of Goryeo....
    • First Mongol invasion of Japan
    • Second Mongol invasion of Japan
  • Invasion of Red Turban Rebellion
    Red Turban Rebellion

    The Red Turban Rebellion was an uprising much influenced by the White Lotus Society members that targeted the ruling Yuan Dynasty....
  • War against Japanese piracy
    Wakou

    Wakou may refer to:* Wokou , Japanese pirates who raided coastlines of China and Korea from the 13th into the 17th century.* Wako, Saitama , a city in Japan's Greater Tokyo Area...
    • 1st Tsushima
      Tsushima

      Tsushima may refer to:* Tsushima, Nagasaki, a city in Nagasaki Prefecture * Tsushima Basin, also known as Ulleung Basin, located at the juncture of the Sea of Japan and the Korea Strait...
       invasion
  • Liaodong Campaign-Wihwado Revolution (coup by Yi Songgye
    Taejo of Joseon

    Taejo of Joseon , born Yi Seong-gye, whose changed name is Yi Dan, was the founder and the first king of the Joseon Dynasty of Korean antiquity, and the main figure in overthrowing the Goryeo Dynasty....
    )


Internal strife
  • Yi Ja-gyeom Rebellion
  • Myo Cheong
    Myo Cheong

    Myo Cheong was an influential Buddhist monk and Geomancy of the royal court who lived during the Goryeo Dynasty in Korea....
     Rebellion
  • Military Coup of 1170
  • Kim Bodang Rebellion
  • Jo Wichong Rebellion
  • Mangi and Mangsoi Rebellion
  • Kim Sami and Hyosim Rebellion
  • Slave Rebellions of Goryeo


Joseon Dynasty
Joseon Dynasty

Joseon , was a sovereign state founded by Taejo Taejo of Joseon, and lasted for approximately five centuries. It was founded in the aftermath of the overthrow of the Goryeo Kingdom at what is today the city of Kaesong....


Conflicts
  • 1419 : 2nd Tsushima Conquest
  • 1519 : Sampo Waeran(small-scale Japanese War)
  • 1592-1598 : Seven Year War (Imjin)
  • Northern Expansion against Jurchens (see also Korean-Jurchen wars
    Korean-Jurchen wars

    Timeline of the Korean-Jurchen wars...
    )
  • 1627 : Jeongmyo Horan(1st Manchu
    Manchu

    The Manchu people are a Tungusic peoples who originated in Manchuria . During their rise in the seventeenth century, with the help of Ming rebels , they conquered the Ming Dynasty and founded the Qing Dynasty, which ruled China until its abolition in 1911 after the Xinhai Revolution, which established Republic of China in its place....
     Invasion)
  • 1636 : Byeongja Horan(2nd Manchu Invasion)
  • 1654-1658 : Russian Campaign which is part of Russian-Manchu war
  • Byeongin Yangyo
  • General Sherman Incident
    General Sherman Incident

    File:USS Princess Royal.jpgThe General Sherman Incident was the destruction of an armed United States merchant marine schooner that visited Korea in 1866....
  • Sinmi Yangyo
  • Righteous army
    Righteous army

    Righteous armies, sometimes called irregular armies or militias, have emerged repeatedly in History of Korea, when the national armies have been unable to defend the country....
     Actions


Internal strifes
  • Old style army Rebellion
  • Donghak Peasant Revolution
    Donghak Peasant Revolution

    The Donghak Peasant Revolution was an anti-government, anti-yangban and anti-foreign uprising in 1894 in Korea which was the catalyst for the First Sino-Japanese War....


1910-1945 :Korea under Japanese rule
Korea under Japanese rule

Korea was under Japanese rule as part of the Imperial Japan during the first half of the 20th century, until the surrender of Japan in 1945. Korea was occupied and declared a Japanese protectorate in 1905 , and officially annexation in 1910 through an Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty....

  • Campaigns of Independence Forces
    • Battle of Cheongsanri
    • Battle at Luozigou
    • Battle at Dadianzi
    • Battle of Bongohdong
    • Battle of Samdunja
  • Righteous army
    Righteous army

    Righteous armies, sometimes called irregular armies or militias, have emerged repeatedly in History of Korea, when the national armies have been unable to defend the country....
  • Actions of Korean Liberation Army
    Korean Liberation Army

    The Korean Liberation Army, established on September 17 1941 in Chongqing, China, was the armed force of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea....


After 1945

  • Korean War
    Korean War

    The Korean War refers to a period of military conflict between North Korea and South Korea regimes, with major hostilities lasting from June 25, 1950 until the armistice signed on July 27, 1953....
  • Vietnam War
    Vietnam War

    The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina Wars, the Vietnam Conflict, or often in Vietnam the American War occurred in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia from 1959 to April 30, 1975....
  • Gulf War
    Gulf War

    "Persian Gulf War" and "First Gulf War" redirect here. For other uses, see Persian Gulf War .The Persian Gulf War was a United Nations-authorized military conflict between Iraq and a Coalition of Gulf War from 34 nations commissioned with expelling Iraqi forces from Kuwait after Iraq's Invasion of Kuwait of Kuwait in August 1990....
  • War in Afghanistan
  • Iraq War
    Iraq War

    The Iraq War, also known as the Second Gulf War, the Occupation of Iraq, and Operation Iraqi Freedom, is an ongoing conflicts military campaign which began on March 20, 2003 with the 2003 invasion of Iraq by a Multinational force in Iraq now led by and composed almost entirely of troops from the United States and United King...


See also

  • History of Korea
    History of Korea

    The history of Korea stretches from Lower Paleolithic times to the present. The earliest known Korean pottery dates to around 8000 BC, and the Neolithic period began before 6000 BC, followed by the Bronze Age around 2500 BC....
  • Military history
    Military history

    Military history is a humanities List of academic disciplines within the scope of History recording of War in the Human history, and its impact on the societies, their cultures, economies and changing Politics and international relationships....
  • Military of South Korea
    Military of South Korea

    The Republic of Korea Armed Forces or ROK Armed Forces, is the armed forces of South Korea. It consists of the following branches:* Republic of Korea Army ...
  • Naval history of Korea
    Naval history of Korea

    The naval history of Korea dates back to the Three Kingdoms of Korea period when simple fishing ships were used. Military naval history dates back to the Goryeo and Unified Silla dynasties of Korea in the 600s....
  • List of battles of Korea