After the end of World War II in 1945, Korea, which had been a Japanese colony for 35 years, was divided by the Soviet Union and the US into two occupation zones[e] at the 38th parallel, with plans for a future independent state. Due to political disagreements and influence from their backers, the zones formed their own governments in 1948. The DPRK was led by Kim Il Sung in Pyongyang, and the ROK by Syngman Rhee in Seoul; both claimed to be the sole legitimate government of all of Korea and engaged in limited battles. On 25 June 1950, the Korean People’s Army (KPA), equipped and trained by the Soviets, launched an invasion of the south. In the absence of the Soviet Union, the UN Security Council denounced the attack and recommended countries to repel the invasion. UN forces comprised 21 countries, with the US providing around 90% of military personnel.
After two months, the Republic of Korea Army (ROKA) and its allies were nearly defeated, holding onto only the Pusan Perimeter. In September 1950, however, UN forces landed at Inchon, cutting off KPA troops and supply lines. They invaded North Korea in October 1950 and advanced towards the Yalu River—the border with China. On 19 October 1950, the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army (PVA) crossed the Yalu and entered the war. UN forces retreated from North Korea in December, following the PVA’s first and second offensive. Communist forces captured Seoul again in January 1951 before losing it two months later. Following the abortive Chinese spring offensive, they were pushed back to the 38th parallel, and the final two years of the fighting turned into a war of attrition.
North picked a fight, and got sent packing
Two things can be true. War crimes from 60 years ago don’t justify modern despotism.
It does help explain why Western propaganda has been ineffective at bringing about reunification. I mean, if your parents and grandparents are telling you genuine facts over the decades about the US blowing your shit up, then why should you believe idealistic Western propaganda? Everything just sounds like lies.
I don’t think North Koreans get the same idealistic Western propaganda we do. Hopefully, it’s tailored to the audience by people familiar with the North Korean zeitgeist.
The US killed >20% of Koreans… After North Korea invaded the South with massive Soviet backing.
That’s like saying “British people held a half-decade long campaign of murders and bombings against German citizens” while leaving out “during WW2”
Tread on me daddy
There are a couple of things. 1 Two things can be true. North korea can be a fascist dictatorship that sometimes paints itself red(they are) and the us could have killed 20 percent of all Koreans. 2. That number is a high estimate of the total people killed in the war. It’s likely that you are including a North Korean soldier sticking his gun in a civilian’s mouth, and pulling the trigger, then making the tally for the side you don’t like. Before America even joined the war. I’ve seen that before with the nazis and with the 3000 civilians killed in ukraine(2500 in government territory and 500 in rebel territory I’ve heard. In an artillery war, i sober how the civilians are dying?). You kill people and paint all the blood on the hands of the otherside. But yes, America should do better. They are committing war crimes is not an excuse to commit war crimes. Much of that blood is actually on our hands. Saying all of it is… genocide denial though right?
Edit: I feel bad using genocide denial that way. It cheapens it. Not as much as you do though, by claiming that calling a government bad is genocide denial. At least I’m addressing claims about deaths.
Edit 2: okay, this becomes possible looking at it if… you deny the exists of South Koreans. If the us caused all north korea deaths, and you ignore the population of the south this becomes a high estimate by itself… but if you only ignore the living south Koreans and count dead south Koreans as being from the north and say they were killed by the us, it’s actually a little low comparing populations.
