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North Korea celebrated its founding with a military parade featuring dump trucks modified to work as rocket launchers
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this post was submitted on 10 Sep 2023
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Japanese occupation --> Separate US and Soviet Occupation Zones --> Two different governments of 'Korea'.
Not all that complicated.
Interesting how you ignore how the US did not recognize the goverment installed by the people of korea (PRK), the people who fought for liberation against the japanese, and decided to establish a military junta with the koreans that collaborated with the japanese, who were hated by everyone for obvious reasons.
The brief existence of the PRK has essentially no bearing on the civil war. It existed less than a year, and was dismantled in both the South and the North by the actions of the US and Soviet Union.
Neither power cared to entertain what the people of Korea wanted in the Post-War period.
I wonder what half-truth or outright lie y'all will respond with next to paint the US and SK as Satan next to the Angelic Soviet Union and DPRK.
No power were the 'good guys'. None had the moral high ground. All deserve blame for what happened. The history of the period is one of tragedy and ambition.
None of that changes the fact that North Korea, backed by the Soviets and later China, started the shooting war by invading the South.
"context does not matter" is exactly what you're saying but whatever it is obvious to me that you haven't read more than the first paragraph of the wikkpedia article.
No, what I am saying is you can't blame every bad thing about the Korean peninsula on the US. Did the US recognize the PRK? Nope, they suppressed it. Should they have recognized it? Probably.
Did the Soviets recognize the PRK? Nope, they usurped it. Should they have recognized it? Probably.
Did the existence of the PRK change the trajectory of the peninsula towards separation and civil war? No, it was hardly a speed bump to the imperial power of the USSR and US.
The PRK is an interesting historical anecdote, but it is irrelevant when discussing the Korean War.