This Day in <br />History: Truman <br />Orders US Forces to Korea June 27, 1950 The U.S. President's <br />order came after 90,000 <br />North Korean troops <br />invaded South Korea. A U.N. Security Council <br />approved the U.S. resolution <br />that called for an "immediate <br />cessation of hostilities." Truman addressed <br />the nation by television to <br />announce the U.S. intervention <br />in the Korean "conflict." Despite the absence <br />of a Congressional <br />declaration of war, the <br />draft was extended. Three years later to the day, <br />an armistice was signed <br />ending the war at the same <br />division where it began. More than 200,000 North Korean <br />citizens and close to 800,000 communist <br />soldiers died in the war. Official tally of <br />American casualties totaled 36,516.
