WWII truly ended with the dictator who started it: Stalin 1953.

Korea was plainly an extension of WWII – traditional AND WWII’s biggest civil war: CHINA.

After the first six months the ‘Korean War’ devolved into the execution of the Southern Chinese Army at the hands of the unwitting UN Forces.

Think of Soviet penal battalions expanded into Chinese Army Groups. NORTHERN Chinese casualties in that war were astonishingly light. They stop well behind the front as our Nationalist, former allies, were marched into our guns. Chinese victory was achieved when these hapless troops were blown away by artillery four times as intensive per division as the same formations in WWII !

( Go back and look.)