King with valuable resource acting neutral about fresh conflict (6,3)
I believe the answer is:
korean war
'fresh conflict' is the definition.
'korean war' can be an answer for 'conflict' (I've seen this before). I am not certain of the 'fresh' bit.
'king with valuable resource acting neutral' is the wordplay.
'king' becomes 'K' (chess abbreviation).
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'valuable resource' becomes 'ore' (I've seen this before).
'acting neutral' becomes 'anwar' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'k'+'ore'+'anwar'='KOREAN WAR'
'about' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for korean war that I've seen before include "armed conflict" , "1950-53 conflict" , "Ninteen fifty to ninteen fifty three conflict" .)