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Nah dude.
This is super-duper revisionist and completely unsupported by evidence. If anything, by 1950, US was genuinely weighing the option of not defending South Korea in case of a North Korean attack. https://twitter.com/blanktycho/status/1276153996609232897
This is super-duper revisionist and completely unsupported by evidence. If anything, by 1950, US was genuinely weighing the option of not defending South Korea in case of a North Korean attack. https://twitter.com/blanktycho/status/1276153996609232897
In January 1950, then-Secretary of State Dean Acheson gave a major speech about US policy in Asia, where he outlined the so-called "Acheson Line" of US defense. Notably, Acheson didn't mention the defense of South Korea and Taiwan, only Japan and the Philippines.
As you can see from my earlier thread on the Korean War, I definitely do not have rose colored glasses on for US involvement in the Korean War. But it's simply not true that Americans crushed the Koreans who uniformly yearned to have a unified country under communist rule.
Again, nah dude. You should look up who was supposed to serve as the first president of the People's Republic of Korea: it was Syngman Rhee.
In practical terms, PRK was largely a meaningless organization established by a handful of centrists and was rejected by everyone. https://twitter.com/hermit_hwarang/status/1276219244183773184
In practical terms, PRK was largely a meaningless organization established by a handful of centrists and was rejected by everyone. https://twitter.com/hermit_hwarang/status/1276219244183773184
Korean War was BOTH an international war and a civil war. Lose sight of either aspect and you are bound to get it wrong. Just as much as Korean War happened because US and USSR wanted to defend their hegemony, it happened because Korea's leaders could not form a single front.
This is why I said earlier that ultimately, it was the division that caused the war. Once divided, Korea's leaders in different factions were incentivized to perpetuate the division for the sake of their own gains. Both Rhee and Kim Il Sung purged the centrists.
PRK is a popular trope in the tankie telling of the Korean War because it gives the illusion that all Koreans wanted a unified Korea under a socialist rule. In reality, it was a rudderless group rejected by everyone and in the end hijacked by communists.
