On June 25, 1950, North Korean military forces crossed the thirty-eighth parallel and attacked South Korean Army positions in Ongjin. In early July, U.S. forces arrived to aid the South Korean forces under the United Nations Command. The conflict that ensued became known as the Korean War, although President Harry Truman initially referred to it as a police action. Lasting for three years, the Korean War was the first limited war of the twentieth century. The armed conflict ended with an armistice signed on July 27, 1953, at Panmunjom on the border between North and South Korea. No formal peace treaty was signed, however, and the participants are technically still at the war. Called the Forgotten War because of the relative lack of public concern compared to World War II for it during and after the conflict, the Korean War resulted in the death of 54,229 U.S. soldiers and 103,284 American casualties. The total cost of the war was $30 billion (equivalent to $341 billion in 2011), or 4.2…