Korean War: A critical timeline and a bit xtra

The Korean war changed the world in many different ways.

Again, looking back at the Koreas, both of these two countries had very peculiar connections with the outer world.

• This war was started by North Korea who earlier agreed with Russia (That Russia would provide weapons while China would provide man power) that if anything went wrong in its attempt to unify the Korea’s, it would get backing.
• After North Korea  attacked South Korea, South Korea looked for help in the Democratic side of the world (USA). This proved to be successful as they charged up to the border of China.

In this case, USA textbooks seems to give well justified reasons as to why China got involved saying that they were forced to protect their border from USA.

Note: taking this a bit further, a reason for why Japan was so neutral in this situation may be because it is both a democratic country but at the same time it tried taking over China, a communist country. Although this does not sound contradictory (their goals were otherwise as well), it actually… is. After it’s take over of China, Kuomintang was getting hatred from its people for surrendering their ground. This gave the current Chinese government to go from just a few men to a few hundred thousand soldiers. That was why after WWII, Japanese relatives inside Asia were well treated while China did not claim any payment from Japan, a country that lost WWII.

• At this time, China’s civil war was almost at it’s end (Kuomintang has just lost of party of Republic of China therefore has escaped to Taiwan) and was getting ready to finish Taiwan taking this chance to finish the opposing party. The next minute, America was at its doorstep getting ready to bite off some land~
• Here one, North Korea and China made a counterattack pushing North Korea back into the south
• Taking another chance, USA countered with South Korea taking back most of the peninsula.
• FINALLY TRUCE WAS ANNOUNCED

Even today, there are still conflicts withing these countries. Korea is truly a very strong nation as well as a very interesting culture. Even though it was taken over many times by China and Japan, their neighboring strong countries, they still managed to retain their culture and remain independent. The North sides snuggles comfortably in the hands of communist countries, China and Russia, while South Korea takes it’s place with Democratic countries Japan and USA. These two countries played a great role on the international stage and still do today.