United Nations Security Council Resolution 85

Resolution 85 of the UN Security Council was adopted at the 479th meeting of the Panel on 30 July 1950 and authorized the military intervention of UN forces in Korea after the North Korean troops had invaded the south of the country. The vote took place in the absence of the Soviet representative, Yakov Malik, because the USSR from January - August 1950 had withdrawn its representative on the Council in protest against the exclusion of the People's Republic of China.

The list of more than half a million soldiers comprehensive UN force, formed with the participation of 22 countries led by the U.S., had already been decided in a previous Security Council resolution.

It was followed by the Korean War, which after three years leaving in 1953 a divided country, about 900,000 soldiers killed and about 3,000,000 civilians killed.