The War of the Southern Sea

The War of the southern sea The war of the southern sea was a short summer-long military conflict between South korea, Japan and China. despite the Japanese not officially declaring war on china they send 60,000 of the 100,000 men on the Korean side. The war ended after multiple weeks of fighting when the USA threatened to deploy marines in the conflict.

The first minor skirmish was between South korean frigates and a Chinese Gunboat. The South koreans won the skirmish and the Chinese declared war, Xi Jinping stated "这是对我们国家的攻击"" ('this is an attack against our nations sovereignty') and after around 20,000 chinese forces where deployed to combat South Korea who with help from the USA moved around half of their navy to the South China sea.

on July 4th a tense standoff started to spark resulting in the battle of the Rift where Japanese soldiers were deployed to aid the Koreans on land. It stayed mostly a naval battle where a Japanese carrier interfered. on the 6th the Japanese and Koreans were pushed out and patrolled the area until China began deploying submarines and more skirmishes accord until the next months when a peace treaty was signed occurring in a white peace.