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Defiant North Korea tells UN its spy satellite program is its ‘legitimate right as a sovereign state’ (edition.cnn.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Re. your first point, 100% the USA.

However, that's one hell of a goalpost shift from "directly caused" to supported half... Also the North were provoked and threatened by the South as much as the South were by the North... The North invading was largely because they thought they could take the South though, not because they were scared by the South into doing it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I think who provoked whom is a bit orthogonal to the dicussion though there is definitely merit in knowing the history accurately.

If one considers that Kim Il Sung with the help of USSR and China defeated Japanese colonisers, then the USA swoops in and reinstates some Japanese and their Korean collaborators to positions of authority in their half of the split, I think it would make sense if North Korea invaded without provocation. No blood was spilt by the Americans in the process of Korean liberation directly.