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Sure, the North attacked the South. In fact, the North also attacked the North. That’s generally how revolutions work, after all.

None of this really pertains to foreigners coming in and levelling the country and dropping chemical weapons everywhere and slaughtering a ton of civilians.

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RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
North started the war and US and other UN troops only came in to help the South after that. The whole thing could’ve possibly been avoided had the North not attacked.

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- Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Yes, and the American Revolutionary War could have been avoided had the colonists simply accepted British rule.
  
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  - RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    You think North Korea invading South Korea was to liberate North Korea from foreign rule…? Wut
    
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    Objection@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    You’re acting like North Korea and South Korea existed as separate, established entities prior to the Korean War. That’s nonsense. It’s projecting the modern state of affairs back into the past. The Korean War is when those entities were established as such. The were communists and anti-communists distributed throughout the whole of Korea, and neither side was interested in setting up a partition that would carve the country in two, until a compromised was negotiated effectively ending the war.
    
    The Republic of Korea had governed the whole of the country, and the leadership was made up of compradors who had been propped up by fascist Japanese invaders and who had switched teams to being running dogs of the US as soon as it became convenient. The revolutionaries rose up against them, first attacking in the north and establishing a foothold before moving south. At this point, the US, seeking to assert dominance over a country thousands of miles away, intervened with one of the deadliest bombing campaigns in history, with an extremely high ratio of civilian deaths, many killed by biological and chemical weapons.
    
    Even if the US hadn’t been so brutal towards Korean civilians, it still had no business getting involved. This whole argument of “defensive” wars thousands of miles away is nonsense. It’s the same argument the fucking Roman Empire used to justify conquering Europe:
    
    There was no corner of the known world where some interest was not alleged to be in danger or under actual attack. If the interests were not Roman, they were those of Rome’s allies; and if Rome had no allies, then allies would be invented. When it was utterly impossible to contrive such an interest—why, then it was the national honor that had been insulted. The fight was always invested with an aura of legality. Rome was always being attacked by evil-minded neighbors, always fighting for a breathing space. The whole world was pervaded by a host of enemies, and it was manifestly Rome’s duty to guard against their indubitably aggressive designs. They were enemies who only waited to fall on the Roman people.
    
    -Joseph Schumpeter
    
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