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Which side actually started the Korean War? (lemmygrad.ml)
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u/evil_elmo1223 - originally from r/GenZhou
I looked up this online, and most of the sources claimed that North Korea invaded South Korea initially. Is this true? As I thought the US had first occupied the land after taking down the PRK.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

u/ForeskinFudge - originally from r/GenZhou
Well it depends on your definition and how imperialist-centric you are. The US had troops in Korea, and personally I'd consider that an invasion.

For the people who say "the North came down first and invaded into the South and started the war" I would ask you a series of questions. But first I would qualify that at the time it wasn't like it is today. Koreans by and large did not see the north and south as two separate countries.

  1. How can a single country invade the same country?

  2. We cheer when Lincoln waged war to re-unite the union.

  3. The south wasn't clearly in the camp of Western imperialism. They were split. By and large they hated Syngman Rhee (the American puppet dictator who america installed, and hadn't lived in Korea for decades before he became the dictator).

Why is it a just war for the west to invade and chop up a country, but it's considered belligerent for the North to re-unify their own country?