At dawn on June 25, 1950, seven divisions of the KPA crossed the 38th Parallel and launched a fierce attack to the south, and the Korean War, which affected the world pattern, broke out. This also opened the prelude to the magnificent Chinese People's Volunteer Army's War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. Many people believe from this that it is the hand of the North that moves first, that the North is the aggressor, that the South is the victim, and that the South occupies the moral high ground, but the truth is just the opposite.
The outbreak of the Korean War led to the magnificent War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea
On August 10, 1945, with the casual drawing of a small staff officer of the US army, a 38th line that had divided the peninsula for decades was born, and both the north and the south and even the east and west sides took this line as the forefront of the confrontation. Neither the United States nor the Soviet Union at this time imagined that this line would bring about a huge change in the world pattern in a few years.
At this time, the peninsula was still only a geographical concept, and there was no real country. The meeting of foreign ministers of the three countries held in December 1945 raised the issue of whether the peninsula will be established by China, the Soviet Union, the United States and the United Kingdom for five years until the end of 1950, and then the four republics will decide whether the peninsula will be established, how and by whom. This move has the implication that some leaders should assess the ability of subordinates to work.
An artificially divided 38th line has created decades of confrontation on the peninsula
In 1946, the north began a large-scale land reform, and for a time the people's hearts were exhausted. The population-majority south, on the other hand, saw an uprising of 3 million people. One of the demands of the uprising was to demand that the South carry out land reform in the same way as the North. In the first round of the competition, the South has completely lost the upper hand.
Seeing signs that its supporting South was out of control, the United States immediately forgot about the five-year trusteeship plan and immediately proposed to the United Nations that a general election be held in both the North and the South in 1948 to form a joint ruling authority in which the North and the South participated. But the proposal was rejected by the North on the grounds that "the South is not qualified to compete on an equal footing with us." The U.S.-rigged election is about to become a separate election in the South.
In August 1948, Syngman Rhee, MacArthur, and Hodge were inaugurated
Hearing this news, Jin Jiu, known as the "Father of the Nation," spoke up, and because his political views were close to the United States, the United States was happy to hear his voice. I just didn't expect That Jin Jiu strongly opposed the establishment of the Country by the South in "Crying to Thirty Million Compatriots", and even more opposed to the election of Syngman Rhee by the United States. This in turn strengthened the determination of the United States to support Rhee, because what they wanted was obedient waste.
In August 1948, the South formed South Korea with the support of the United States, and Syngman Rhee was the first president, and the United Nations immediately recognized it. At this point, the "five-year trusteeship" plan has come to an end. Seeing that the South ignored the rules of the game, and the North did not want to show weakness, only a month later the North established the Republic of Korea and was recognized by the Eastern Camp. The confrontation between the North and the South has become public.
After the South ignored the Trusteeship plan and established the country alone, the two sides confronted each other on the 38th Line
Prior to this, there were small-scale armed infiltrations on the 38th Line, but most of them were mainly to collect intelligence, and after that, the scale and content of armed infiltration have suddenly escalated. In June 1949, the South took the lead in dispatching the "Tiger Forest Unit" trained by the Japanese, and this operation had no clear goal, that is, how to chaos and how to come.
The Hulin troops went around destroying military installations and assassinating military personnel, and in the absence of specific support, reception and withdrawal plans, the Hulin troops were quickly wiped out by the north. The North also sent armed men in retaliation. From this date to June 25, 1950, there were 995 armed clashes between the two sides, with a small platoon size and a battalion size.
In the year before the outbreak of the war, there were an average of three armed clashes per day on the 38th Parallel
It can be said that in the year before the outbreak of war, the gunfire on the 38th Line did not stop for a day, and the average of 3 armed clashes per day made both sides hold their breath. Neither side is idle, both are actively developing their own forces, trying to eliminate each other in one fell swoop, and war is inevitable.
In April 1950, the U.S. adviser Maurice Ezeman (later the Book of America in War) arrived in Seoul, in which he wrote: I spent two nights in Seoul, was given a state banquet and watched the military parade, but the owner of Seoul apologized that the hospitality was poor, and when they soon unified the North, they would make up for the most solemn welcome ceremony for me. Two months later, they were driven out of Seoul by northern tanks.
Northern armies invaded Seoul
It can be seen from this that Syngman Rhee has always been unwilling to succumb to the south, but wants the entire peninsula. If it weren't for its terrible ability to organize and execute, it would have been the South that did it first. A week before the outbreak of the war (June 18), Dulles suddenly appeared on the March 8th Line, and although the United States explained that it was an accidental event, almost all forces saw it as a signal that the United States was about to move. In this situation, the north is the first to strike.
In January 1951, the Volunteer Army captured Seoul
The motives of this war cannot be judged by the behaviour of a certain force at a certain moment, and it is not a single event that broke out in June 1950, but an extension of the developments of the past few years. Its essence is only a civil war with national reunification as the appeal, not the aggression of other countries. What is more worthy of people's consideration than who did it first is who caused the division of the peninsula, and who forcibly broke the strategic balance for their own interests when the confrontation had become a balance of power, and eventually caused the war.