The armistice ending the Korean War is signed July 27, 1953. South Korean refugees walking down train tracks at the end of the Korean War. Heavily damaged buildings in Seoul, South Korea. Residents of Seoul picking through trash looking for food. 1960s a bulldozer is seen in front of a new high rise building in Seoul. Construction supplies carried by laborers to construction site from water. Pedestrians on Seoul street wearing traditional Hanbok robes. Market place in Seoul, picking crabs at market stall. Women with Korean children. Korean children in front of temple. Children eating on street with balloons nearby. Korean children playing volleyball. Korean children in school uniforms. Korean women looking in store front in Seoul. Streets in Seoul show bicycles and carts overloaded with supplies.
Heavy pedestrian traffic over bridge in Seoul South Korea. Buses and taxi cabs on Seoul streets. Men pulling heavily loaded carts on street. Many pedestrians with Jigae (A‐Frame Carriers) heavily loaded on their backs. Buses on street reflected in shop window. Wide shot of street with many buses and street cars.
Soviet trucks abandoned at the Korean war front hauling freight through Seoul South Korea streets. Many bicycles on street, many overloaded with goods including one carrying an entire tree. Policeman directing traffic. Korean business man hails taxi on a street in Seoul. Close up of taxi fare meter. POV inside car driving through Seoul streets. Taxi cab arrives at toll gate for Kimpo International Airport toll road. New road under construction. Taxi arrives at Kimpo International Airport and business man leaves taxi cab.
Dramatization shows North Korean soldiers arriving on South Korean beach via boat at night. ROK Army troops respond to threat, running out of guard foxhole . South Korean troops get into armored personnel carriers and move out. View of APCs through camouflage netting. ROK troops emerge from armored personnel carrier in new location. Troops seen under watch tower. Zoom shot Republic of Korea flag flying over The Government-General Building in Seoul, South Korea. Still images of Korean congress assembly. Close up of South Korean flag.
Traffic in Seoul, South Korea, against backdrop of new buildings. Street car in front of new building. Surveyor takes measurements at construction site. Bulldozer clearing land. Men digging. Scaffolding outside new building. Men hauling construction supplies into building. Workers tying rebar for construction. Zoom out from traditional temple to new building construction.
Review of conflicts involving U.S. from World War 2 to 1970. A U.S. soldier with rifle and binoculars, on guard. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler speaks in Germany to mass audience. German mobilization and blitzkrieg. U.S. troops firing small arms on island in Pacific, battling Japanese. U.S. soldiers on half-track firing artillery. Explosive destruction of Nazi swastika and Eagle symbol on top of building in Zeppelin Field, Nuremberg, Germany. General Douglas MacArthur stands as Japanese General signs surrender documents aboard USS Missouri, ending World War II. Times Square in New York City on Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day) marking end of World War 2. American troops firing artillery and small arms in Korean War. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev speaking at the United Nations. Newspaper headlines about postwar Berlin Crisis. Soviet missiles on display in military parade in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Soviet General Georgy Zhukov and Nikita Khrushchev, at Kremlin, reviewing the parade. Cuban President Fidel Castro giving a speech. A newspaper headline reading: "Khrushchev orders removal of missiles" ending the Cuban Missile Crisis. Soviet cargo ship with covered missiles on its deck. Red flag with image of Lenin and message: 'Partido Communista Dominicano' and a crowd chanting support for the Communist party in the Dominican Republic. Communist Chinese people marching with massed flags in the People’s Republic of China. Chairman Mao Zedong waving to a crowd of young supporters and Red Guards in China as they chant. A United States soldier in South Vietnam during Vietnam War looks through binoculars and then walks carrying his M-16 rifle. A map of Vietnam.