u/klqwerx - originally from r/GenZhou
How can a country invade itself?
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2022
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u/evil_elmo1223 - originally from r/GenZhou
Sorry if I wasn't concise enough, my bad.
From Wikipedia:
North Korean military (Korean People's Army (KPA)) forces crossed the border and drove into South Korea on 25 June 1950.[52] The United Nations Security Council denounced the North Korean move as an invasion and authorized the formation of the United Nations Command and the dispatch of forces to Korea[53] to repel it.[54][55]
I believe I've heard that this was not the case, as the Americans initiated it at first. I wasn't sure so I went here.
u/klqwerx - originally from r/GenZhou
The US caused it by not honouring the terms, agreed to & upheld by the Soviets, allowing Korea to determine its own future.
They installed a puppet with no real connection to the people, an almost total unknown outside of certain circles, they allowed people that worked with / for the Japanese occupation to remain in place, they imposed martial law on the people & forbade any kind of democratic process
The messiness around the 38th would not, could not, have occurred in the absence of foreign occupation.
So, the only way the north could invade the south is because of the imposition of this arbitrary division imposed from without
The entire western narrative is a delusional fantasy.
There is no North Korea, no South Korea, there is only Korea. Unfortunately for all Korean people a part of the peninsula is occupied by a foreign military force.
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.
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How can a single country invade the same country?
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We cheer when Lincoln waged war to re-unite the union.
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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?
u/cbaltmackie - originally from r/GenZhou
As I thought the US had first occupied the land after taking down the PRK
This is correct. Any discussion of the Korean war must be held in the context of the US imposition of a military regime over the peninsula against the will of the Korean people.