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English
Proper noun
the Second Korean War
- (informal) A period of intense conflict between the two Koreas in the 1960s, that included the attempted assassination of the South Korean president and the capture of the U.S.S. Pueblo by North Korea.
Usage notes
(1960s): The Korean War of the 1950s had not yet ended, there being only a standing truce between the two Koreas, so this is not a separate war, but rather, continuation of hostilities that hotted up again.
Hypernyms
- Korean War (when taking the Korean War as the entire period from the start of hostilities in the 1950s onwards)