Republic of Korea Armed Forces (1990s): Reform arguments — Section 1100: Reform arguments

The ROK military is a 1948 institution that survived 1950 by alliance, then spent Yulgok trying not to be only an alliance appendix -- a political history of a defensive force. Constabulary origins, June 1950 collapse, Pusan, Inchon, a Chinese intervention, and an armistice that was not a peace treaty. Paik and Chung are named because the English file still forgets ROK officers beside MacArthur.

Casualty ranges belong on the Korean War page: hundreds of thousands of ROK military dead in scholarly bands, plus a larger civilian disaster. The 1953/54 treaty, US wartime command arrangements as a dated legal-political fact, and a long argument about OPCON transition -- history of a bargain, not a present command diagram.

Inchon is a battle page; the treaty is this page. Park-era modernisation, HCI plants, ADD, K1 then K2, K9, Chang Bogo submarines, a later KF-21 project as industrial politics. Hanwha and other chaebols are the works file. 12.12 and 5.18 are military-politics files -- see korea-1979 -- not a force-structure how-to and not a praise song for Park.