mission for himself. korea today is a very important to the united states. bret: korean war cost 37 thousand american lives, 800 thousand chinese soldiers, and as many as 4 million koreans died in a brutal conflict that lasted three years. and changed the course of history. we flattened north korea. to this day, this plays into minds of all koreans in the north. bret: brought the world to the brink of nuclear war. fact that communist forces have invaded korea is a warning. this was the start of the cold war. bret: today 30,000 american troops remain in korea standing vigil at one of the world s most heavily fortified borders. because of everything left the way it was 80 years ago. north korean side did miscalculate once in a real big way. we got the korean war out of that. that doesn t mean they won t miscalculate again. bret: hello i m bret baier, my latest unauthorized history series for fox nation is a 5 part documentary, what is called forgotten war. but may
site of a bloody fight now remembered as battle for pork chop hill, some separate campaigned were waged over this small piece of ground, 223 americans and 1500 chinese gave their lives in what would be one of the last all out battles of the war, chinese forced ended up with control of ther d territory it was largely a mining less victory, armistice of the just weeks away. calling fo for se. rather that know an armistice rather than a piecpeace agreement is important, north korea side has never agreed there is peace in the korean peninsula, it s only a