# Canonical recap data for North Korean Invasion of South Korea (1950)
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slug: korean-war-begins
canonicalUrl: "https://recap.at/1950/korean-war-begins"
title: North Korean Invasion of South Korea
subtitle: North Korea's sudden invasion of the South triggered the Korean War, drawing the United Nations and superpowers into a three-year conflict that split the peninsula permanently.
recapType: global_event
eventStatus: concluded
startDate: 1950-07-31
datePrecision: day
year: 1950
decade: 1950
country:
name: Korea
slug: korea
summaryShort: "Operation Pokpung was the invasion of South Korea by North Korea that triggered the Korean War. North Korea launched the blitzkrieg by crossing the 38th parallel north and swarming South Korea at 04:00 PYT/KST on Sunday, 25 June 1950. The DPRK did not declare war before the invasion and rushed to encircle and eventuall"
summaryLong: "Operation Pokpung was the invasion of South Korea by North Korea that triggered the Korean War. North Korea launched the blitzkrieg by crossing the 38th parallel north and swarming South Korea at 04:00 PYT/KST on Sunday, 25 June 1950. The DPRK did not declare war before the invasion and rushed to encircle and eventually capture Seoul, the capital of South Korea, from the ROK within a week."
heroImageUrl: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ed/Gaeamsa_Gabsupjje_13-05651_-_Buan-gun%2C_Jeollabuk-do%2C_South_Korea.JPG/1280px-Gaeamsa_Gabsupjje_13-05651_-_Buan-gun%2C_Jeollabuk-do%2C_South_Korea.JPG"
heroImageCredit: "\"Gaeamsa Gabsupjje 13-05651 - Buan-gun, Jeollabuk-do, South Korea\" by Steve46814 is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/."
importance: 84
sourceConfidence: 75
keyFacts: []
timeline: []
sources:
- url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pokpung"
  title: North korean invasion of South Korea
  provider: Wikipedia
related: []
categories:
- war
metaDescription: Operation Pokpung was the invasion of South Korea by North Korea that triggered the Korean War. North Korea launched the blitzkrieg by crossing the 38th paralle
wikidataQid: Q4260079
archiveSnapshots:
- url: "https://web.archive.org/web/20260609131433/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pokpung"
  capturedAt: 2026-06-09
  label: North korean invasion of South Korea
  originalUrl: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Pokpung"
taxonomy:
domain: military
eventTypes:
- war
- invasion
canonicalClasses:
- conflict
- transformation
impactRadius: regional
velocity: sudden
predictability: black_swan
intentionality: planned
domainCoupling: multi_domain
lifecycleClass: birth
