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TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Ehhh the Korean war is complicated. It started with Japan invading Korea and attempting to erase their history and culture. (Worth noting that America gave them the green light on this). After WW2, Korea was divided and backed by US/USSR interests on either side. It was a shitshow with everyone disagreeing how things should be run. Eventually North Korea did invade the South, though, so I guess this meme still applies. But even that fact is unclear - they claim it was retaliatory. Who knows.

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Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Ehhh the Korean war is complicated

North Korea did invade the South

Doesn’t seem very complicated to me

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- TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  oh well if you think it’s simple then please write the historians who cant make sense of it, we don’t know who attacked first
  
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  - Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following years of internal instability and hostilities between the two states.
    
    Yeah it’s a real conundrum, that one
    
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    TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    scroll down on the Wikipedia page you copied that from. it describes exactly what I’m talking about. I’m not some Hexbear shill here, the Korean war is a legit fucked up and complicated situation
    
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calavera@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
It would have been so much easier if instead of splitting Vietnam and Korea, they kept one for each empire to take care of

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