The United States was caught by surprise when heavily-armed North Korean troops and tanks poured into South Korea on June 25, ...

Truman's Korea statement. WASHINGTON, June 27, ... In these circumstances I have ordered United States air and sea forces to give the Korean government troops cover and support.

There have been many memorable moments in the 80-year history of the United Nations, both at its headquarters in New York and ...

Kansas City’s airport terminal could get a new name. Mayor Quinton Lucas met Wednesday with representatives from the Harry S.

Harry Truman's call for merciless anti-strike action (TIME, June 3) had hardly died down over... Rarely had a U.S. President taken such a rawhiding from a single, powerful group of his constituents.

The Korean War – never an officially declared war in the United States, but a deadly conflict nonetheless – also marked several advancements in the American military even since World War II just a few ...