03-02-2007
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Secretary of State
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Member Since: Nov 2006
Location: HollyWood Cali.
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Re: America's covert postwar intimacy with Japanese right wing fascists
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Originally Posted by enigma2
Umm! ted, the north couldn't have invaded the south, it was all the one country. Just like Vietnam before the US intervened after France was kicked out!
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On August 10, 1945 with the Japanese surrender imminent and following a plan drawn up earlier by the United States, the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to divide Korea along the 38th parallel. Japanese forces north of that line would surrender to the Soviet Union, and those to the south to the United States. Thus, without consulting the Korean people, the two major powers divided the Korean peninsula into two occupation zones, thereby putting into place the foundation for the civil war. Although later policies and actions contributed to Korea's division, the United States did not envision this as a permanent partition.[8]
In mid 1949, Kim Il-Sung pressed his case with Joseph Stalin that the time had come for a reunification of the Korean peninsula. Kim needed Soviet support to successfully execute an offensive far across a rugged, mountainous peninsula. Stalin as leader of the communist bloc refused permission, concerned with the relative unpreparedness of the North Korean armed forces and with possible U.S. involvement.
Over the following year, the North Korean leadership molded the North Korean army into a formidable offensive war machine modeled partly on a Soviet mechanized force, but strengthened primarily by an influx of Koreans who had served with the Chinese People’s Liberation Army since the 1930s. By 1950 the North Korean military was equipped with outdated Soviet weaponry, yet it enjoyed substantial advantages over the Southern forces in virtually every category of equipment. After another visit by Kim to Moscow in March-April of 1950, Stalin approved an attack.
The North Koreans attacked across a broad front, including Gaeseong, Chuncheon, Uijeongbu, and Ongjin. Within a few days, ROK forces, many of whom were of dubious loyalty to the southern regime, outnumbered and out-gunned, were in full retreat. As the ground attack continued, the North Korean Air Force bombed Gimpo Airport near the ROK capital of Seoul. Seoul itself was captured on the afternoon of June 28, but the North Koreans failed to secure the quick surrender of the Rhee government. Kim Il-Sung expected a quick victory, but that did not happen. He did not expect the war to last long enough for American intervention, so there were no significant defenses prepared against American air attacks.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War
i am actually surprised that you are trying to argue this enigma.. its really common knowledge.
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