![]() ![]() Failure to do so would repeat the mistakes made by the US in their support for the corrupt KMT in China. Thus, the North had to be fought and beaten on its own turf. The answer to that question is that General MacArthur, heading a U.N force tasked with repelling North Korean aggression, saw that South Korean people were deeply divided and the US supported regime was corrupt, contained collaborators, and was militarily less capable in every way than the North. The question asks about General MacArthur's decision to cross the 38th parallel thus 'invading North Korea'. However the Red Army fully complied with this decision under Stalins policy of wartime cooperation and the Red Army reaching this parallel first waited there for three weeks to await the arrival of US forces from the South. They doubted whether the Soviet Union would cooperate. This was drawn up by US colonels Dean Rusk and Charlea Bonesteel III and incorporated into US General order 1. In Korea, this is the origin of the 38th Parallel as a demarcation and boundary between North and South Korea. With collapse of Japanese power in the aftermath of the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima by the United States military it's sphere of influence was split between the Soviet Union and The United States. Twenty-one countries contributed personnel with the United States providing 90%Įssentially, Korea was under Japanese hegemony after Japan militarised in its attempt to modernise in imitation of the West, and in further imitation of Europe it looked for colonies abroad - in China and Korea. The UN Security Council authorised the formation and dispatch of UN forces into Korea to repel what was recognised as a North Korean invasion. ![]() The conflict escalated into open warfare when North Korean forces - supported by the Soviet Union and China - moved into the South. ![]() Both governments claimed to be sole legitimate government of the whole of Korea and neither accepted the border as permanent. Korea had been split into two sovereign nations. was a product of the Cold War between United States and the Soviet Union. Since I'm not sure of the specifics the basic outline I've written below. The fact that many lives were lost and the "border" returned only to the Status quo antebellum is proof to me that this war was another example of states sacrificing the lives of their citizens without reason.This is a very basic and straight-forward question which can be answered by looking at the first few paragraphs on wikipedia. You could make quite fair arguments on behalf of both the North or the South, or the Russians, or the US for that matter. Thus, this point is secondary to the first point of if the United States had any right to be in Korea, which I believe that they had no right to be in. I do not think that the United States forces ought to have been in North OR South Korea at all. Non intervention and non violence is the only legitimate policy.ĭo you think the United States-led forces ought to have crossed into North Korea? If people in South Korea wanted to leave, we should have offered them free access and the means to immigrate to the US, that is the extent of the US foreign policy that I would support. There is no way to know with certainty, but I do not think it was appropriate for the United States to intervene. Perhaps all of Korea would have gone communist, but then perhaps later they would have rebelled in unity and had a strong united free Korea today. It is impossible for us to know with certainty what would have happened. Was the United States wise to fight in Korea? If Truman hadn’t contained communism in Korea what might the consequences have been? ![]()
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