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Attack by North Korea and U.S. attempt in United Nations' Security Council meeting to protect South Korea.

Start of Korean War. South Korea is attacked by Communist North Korea. Map shows division of Korea and capital of North and South Korea as Pyongyang and Seoul. Animated arrows shows attack of North Korea to South Korea. Troops of Korean Republican Army in the South mobilizing in citiies and heading to the front. South Korean soldiers fire rifles and artillery from trenches and hills. Smoke is seen among mountain ranges during battle. Soldier looks through binoculars. Next scene is in the United States, in Lake Success, New York, where guards at the United Nations simultaneously raise flags of many nations at the United Nations. South Korean ambassador Chang Myon is seen at an Emergency meeting of the Security Council of the UN. Secretary of UN, Trygve Lie states the situation is a as threat to world peace and calls for acceptance of the U.S. demand to reestablish peace. All 9 members present raise their hands in acceptance. Next scene is back in South Korea. Scenes of displaced civilian refugees including women and children. Many are gathered together. Man helps old woman to walk. Two Korean refugee boys stand side by side as one child eats bread. Next scene is again at the United Nations. Empty seat of representative of the Soviet Union is shown. U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Warren Austin, speaks and asks that the UN members vote to to assist South Korea, repel the armed attack by North Korea, and bring peace. Camera shows Security Council delegates voting, as 7 out of 8 representatives raise their hands in acceptance.

Date: 1950, June
Duration: 2 min 37 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675026524
U.S. soldiers advance at Old Baldy, one of the strategic points on the invasion route to Seoul.

U.S. soldiers advance at Old Baldy, one of the strategic points on the invasion route to Seoul. Explosions on hills. Smoke from artillery fire. Soldiers behind barricades. Soldiers on tanks advance. Military vehicles stuck in muddy roads. Soldiers try to pull them out with the help of other vehicles. Military convoy on the road. Soldiers take a Chinese prisoner. U.S. soldiers eat and drink. Explosions on hills.

Date: 1953, April 2
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020773
Syngman Rhee, General Hodge, General Shitkov, and other officials meet at Duck Soo Kong in Seoul, after World War II.

Early North Korean Propaganda film depicts post-World War 2 events in Korea. including the partition of North and South at the 38th parallel. Korean village and country side.Seagulls fly at seaside. Duck Soo Kong building in Nam Dai Moon in Seoul. Officers stand around a table as General Hodge ( United States), General Shitkov (Russia), Syngman Rhee of South Korea meet. Rhee addresses the meeting, Koreans enter YMCA building in Seoul. Shows Japanese flag and states that Syngman Rhee has traded one Imperial overlord for United States. Animated map of Korea shows division at 38th parallel and depicts Southern part being covered by the entangling web of American interference. Len Han Sa building in Seoul and the city as a whole. South Korean police depicted treating a man badly and taking his food away to highlight Syngman Rhee's strongman tactics.

Date: 1945
Duration: 2 min 11 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Korean
Clip: 65675048306
Refugees fleeing Korean War; Stalin's death in 1953, Workers strugging in East Germany with more work and less pay

Communist-backed North Korea at war with South Korea. Views of U.S. Navy warships firing on North Korean targets, U.S. Army tanks moving through a city in Korea, and U.S. soldiers scrambling in a fire fight. A U.S. Army chaplain hugs a dying American soldier and pats his face. The chaplain closely prays over the dying soldier. A U.S. Army officer lifts a shocked Korean child into a truck. Young Korean children, possibly orphans, eating food at a table. Korean civilians including women and children fleeing the war. UN council in a meeting regarding the Korean War. Soldiers from multiple nations mobilizing for the effort in Korea. View of Kremlin in Soviet Union. Scene of Stalin dead, lying in state surrounded by flowers around his casket. Other Soviet political leaders look on. Citizens pass by site where Stalin is memorialized. East German leader Walter Ulbricht speaking at a podium. Laborers in East Germany struggling as they work longer hours for less pay. Workers construct buildings. East German construction workers sitting idle on the scaffolds of a building under construction as they begin their strike in June 1953, initiating the Uprising of 1953 in East Germany.

Date: 1953
Duration: 1 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: Portuguese
Clip: 65675056708
Sergeant Tubb and Private First Class Hill from the U.S. 40th Infantry Division return to Seoul from R&R in Japan.

U.S. soldiers at the 40th Infantry Division area in Seoul. On return from R&R (Rest and Relaxation) in Japan, Sergeant Tubb and Private First Calss (Pfc) Hill walk up a steep hill to their sandbagged Command Post. They are greeted by a Sergeant who walks up from the CP and gives them armored vests. They are joined by three buddies. Hill and Tubbs present the Sergeant with a cap and parasol.

Date: 1953, January 20
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020990
Sergeant Tubb and Pfc Hill of the U.S. Army 40th Infantry Division at the company position on the line in Seoul.

U.S. soldiers at the 40th Infantry Division area in Seoul. Sergeant Tubb and Private First Calss (Pfc) Hill return from R&R (Rest and Relaxation) in Japan. Hill and Tubb are driven in a U.S. Army jeep along valley road to the base of a hill. They leave the jeep with rifles and a field bag. One man carries combat boots in his hand. They walk to their company's position on the line. Snow on the hillside.

Date: 1953, January 20
Duration: 1 min 4 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020994