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It has been about 25 years since documents from the Soviet Union about the beginning of the Korean War were published. It is already well known that it was the North which started the war. We know how it was prepared, how Stalin initially opposed Kim Il Sung’s idea of invading the South, but then – in early 1950 – agreed to it...(NKnews, 6.25)
[MUST READ] Yesterday's Asia Times(HK) published the following:
Perceptions of the Korean War and the real motives animating its key architects have been in a state of flux since the carnage was unleashed with North Korea leader Kim Il-sung’s invasion of South Korea in the early hours of June 25, 1950.
Many in the West believed, for decades, that the war was a sub-component of a global communist conspiracy aiming at world domination that had to be resisted. That thesis shifted somewhat in the 1980s when an analysis that the conflict was a civil war that spiraled out of control rose to prominence. And since the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the opening of certain Russian state archives, the differing motives and policy gaps between the USSR’s Josef Stalin, China’s Mao Zedong and North Korea’s Kim have become clear.
Now, another causative factor has been proposed: The Soviet dictator wanted to pin Beijing down in a major ground war in order to prevent Chinese reunification...(the complete piece you'll get here)
Related article:
☞ Former N.K. general describes early days of the Korean War (NKnews, 6.26)
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