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What are the highlights and lowlight of the conflict in the Korean war?
Communist North Korea wanted to re-unite with it's NON-Communist relative in the South (South Korea). In June 1950, NORTH Korean Forces invaded SOUTH Korea, in an attempt to take the country by force.