Labels:daily | dialog box | earth | horse | person | school newspaper | sky OCR: Evacuating Injured Troops About th: Korean War World II brought an end ta 35 years f Japanese rule in Korea After Japan's defeat. Soviet troops occupied the northern half f the country and U.S. troops occupied the southern half Efforts to unify the Lqunos failed and in 1950 North Koreans inva ded the South. The war that followed raged until July 1953. On one side of the conflict was the Soviet parosuods North and its I Chinese allies: on the other, the democratic South backed by the U.S. and the Urited Nations The war ended in stalemate with the Korean peninsula divided into twa hostile nations Kortin sponsored hinese United