In both parts of Korea, national reunification is a passionately desired long-term goal. It was a long, bitter, bloody affair , involving both world superpowers, and devastating most of the peninsula. The Chinese also intervened, and the Americans came close to using nuclear weapons. In the ebb and flow of the conflict , hundreds of thousands of lives were lost. At least 16 member-countries of the United Nations, Britain included, sent contingents of troops to aid of South Korea's corrupt and dictatorial ruler, Synghman Ree.
Every war is called that, nowadays.
In fact, Korea is remembered vividly. Among the dozens of websites devoted to keeping the memory fresh, for example, is an immensely moving one by a Korean witness .