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You have examples, like North Korea, which invaded its southern neighbor in an act of naked, unprovoked aggression five years after the peninsula was partitione
by _zagj 2y ago
You have examples, like North Korea, which invaded its southern neighbor in an act of naked, unprovoked aggression five years after the peninsula was partitioned.
- _zagj 2y agoTo the downvoters: we now know conclusively that Kim Il Sung initiated the war, and did so only with Stalin's (initially reluctant) blessing: https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/cable-nos-408-410-shtykov-vyshinsky-politburo https://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/cable-nos-4... And the North's military so easily overwhelmed the South's that within two months, they were driven to brink of defeat, retaining only the Pusan Perimeter on the south-eastern tip of the peninsula.