North Korea Invades the South: Across the 38th Parallel, June 1950

When the world held its breath …

It is more than 25 years since the end of the Cold War. It began over 75 years ago, in 1944 – long before the last shots of the Second World War had echoed across the wastelands of Eastern Europe – with the brutal Greek Civil War. The battle lines are no longer drawn, but they linger on, unwittingly or not, in conflict zones such as Syria, Somalia and Ukraine. In an era of mass—produced AK—47s and ICBMs, one such flashpoint was Korea …

Without warning, at 4.00...