The Korean War, one of the most important conflicts during the Cold War, was one of the international conflicts in which Colombia took part. The South American nation sent an infantry battalion, baptized "Colombia Battalion", to fight alongside the UN coalition led by the United States of America, against the communist armies of China and North Korea. At its comeback to Colombia, such battalion had to face the scaling situation of political violence in the country, therefore, applying what it learned in Korea to fight local enemies, doing so for the first time when they fought against the guerrillas operating around Villarrica municipality, in Tolima department.