The two major opponents competing in the Korean battlefield are mainly China and the United States, perhaps the aura of the two great powers is too dazzling, so that the United Nations army and the original two sides of the war, South Korea and North Korea, in this war, mentioning that the original side of the war, South Korea, at the beginning was beaten by North Korea can be said to be full of teeth, the South Korean army was defeated like a mountain, even the capital Seoul was occupied by the Korean People's Army, when South Korean President Syngman Rhee was forced to retreat to Busan with the leading government offices and the defeated army, there was almost no way back, Retreat to the sea.
However, Rhee was blessed by misfortune, and the war not only made him unite people's hearts, but also successfully dragged the United States into the water. At the beginning of the Korean War in 1950, the United States relied on its strong strength and influence to organize the United Nations army through United Nations Security Council Resolution 84 to provide comprehensive assistance to South Korea. On July 19 of the same year, Syngman Rhee wrote to Truman, pleading and instigating the United States to fight the 38th Parallel, but the Americans were not stupid, did not immediately agree, but carefully observed the Soviet Union's eyes, after some confirmation and maneuvering, the United States finally agreed to cross the 38th Line, and then MacArthur led the United Nations Army led by the United States to carry out the Inchon Landing, cutting off the Korean People's Army, so that it could not take care of each other, the situation in North Korea took a sharp turn, and the US military drank horses on the Yalu River. So what kind of person is Syngman Rhee, who successfully dragged the United States into the water, and what is his origin? What kind of ending did he have?
With royal blood and its own aura, he became the first president of South Korea
Born on March 26, 1875, Syngman Rhee was born into a family of the Lee clan of Joseon, the 16th grandson of The Prince of Lee, the Prince of Lee, and like Liu Bei, Syngman Rhee had fallen into complete decline by his generation. His family to his generation is five generations of single transmission, before he was born, there was an older brother, not yet an adult died, just when the family is facing the extinction crisis and anxious, The birth of Syngman Rhee gave hope to the family. His father went around showing feng shui to people and making a little money to support the family in order to maintain his family's livelihood, and his mother was a Buddhist, which deeply affected Rhee, because his father was away from home for a long time.
In order to show his fists and feet in politics, on the one hand, in order to reflect his noble blood and gather people's hearts, he declared himself to be a collateral descendant of the royal family of the Lee Dynasty of Korea, on the other hand, in order to prevent the opponent from leaving an attack on the occasion and properly controlling the propaganda of his royal blood, after years of painstaking management, Eventually became the first president in the history of South Korea, in fact, it can also be said to be the "founding president".
Encourage the United States to cross the 38th line
At the instigation of Rhee and at his urging on many occasions, the US decision-making level, after careful consideration, still accepted his plea, and the US troops implemented the Inchon landings, crossed the 38th Line, and occupied Pyongyang; Rhee personally organized a large parade of more than 100,000 people in Pyongyang, and gave a warm speech to the marching masses with a victorious posture, calling on the Koreans to unite and fight. Among them was the Battle of Chosin Lake,
Strongly opposed the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement
After July 1951, under the offensive of the volunteer army, the Sino-DPRK coalition army and the United Nations army led by the US army were in the stage of strategic confrontation, the two sides were fighting and talking, sometimes fighting, sometimes talking, the entire Korean War The United States dispatched 70% of the army, 50% of the navy, 40% of the air force, it should be said that the United States also used the strength of the whole country to fight the Korean War, the price paid is not small, the United States at that time also had to compete with the Soviet Union for hegemony in the world, it was impossible to put unlimited resources into the Korean War, the United States is also willing to negotiate a settlement. But if you want to get more benefits at the negotiating table, only if your fist is harder, you can say it, but Rhee strongly opposes the US military's ceasefire on the volunteers despite the strength of the guys in his hands.
To this end, the "release of prisoners" also broke out, and in order to prevent the release of prisoners of war, Rhee's army went so far as to open fire directly with the US troops in charge of guarding the prisoner of war camp, which was called "the rat's ambition to beat the cat with a gun in his waist." The PRESIDENT and Secretary of State Dulles were greatly annoyed, and the then US President Dwight Eisenhower even launched the "perpetual plan" to get rid of Syngman Rhee. The Volunteers also used this as an excuse to decisively launch the Battle of Jincheng, and during the negotiations questioned whether the United States could control Rhee. At this time, the United States was faced with the dilemma of abandoning Rhee and refusing to cease war, after all, the arm could not dry the thigh, and under pressure and for the sake of re-election President Syngman Rhee was forced to make a compromise and acquiesce to the armistice, and finally the Korean War armistice agreement was signed and entered into force on July 27, 1953.
The one-man rule, the people revolted, forced to step down, and fled away
Under the pretext of war needs, Syngman Rhee adopted a series of policies nominally "needed in wartime" and in fact adopted dictatorial measures; in order to exclude dissidents, he assigned his henchmen to assassinate Vice President Zhang Mian, and also executed Cao Fengyan, who participated in the presidential campaign, for espionage. His only criterion for appointing officials was "absolute loyalty," which was immediately replaced at the slightest sign of disloyalty, and some officials were dismissed for no apparent reason.
Under his dictatorship, corruption and bribery in South Korean officialdom became commonplace, and even if they were not corrupt, they could not become officials, and some had to use money to open the way in order to be promoted, and Rhee acquiesced to this for his presidential throne. On April 19, 1960, the South Korean people could not bear it, and the April 19 Revolution broke out, and Rhee sent troops to suppress it bloodily, resulting in 186 deaths and 6,026 injuries. After that, Syngman Rhee was forced to step down in a huge wave of opposition and moved out of the presidential palace, and soon after, Syngman Rhee was exiled to Hawaii. After the fall of the tree, Rhee fell, and completely made Syngman Rhee feel the coldness of the world.
It turned out that "loyal" his subordinates, at this time there was no shadow, no one came to visit during his serious illness, even the medical expenses could not be paid, under the blow of illness and political defeat, on July 19, 1965, Rhee died in Hawaii, after his wife Francesca Duana requested that Rhee's body be transported back to Korea, but was strongly opposed by Koreans, and finally had to be buried in the form of a family burial in Seoul Hyun-chung-in.
summary
A little worth reading: the first point is that Syngman Rhee gathered many core figures around him by virtue of his royal blood, and was successfully elected as the first president in South Korean history, supposedly the founding president, when the media promoted him as the father of the country, but he was abandoned by South Korea after his death. Pro-Americanism led to national division and the division of the Korean Peninsula into two countries. Pro-American also led to the country becoming a semi-colony. The second point is that Syngman Rhee was a difficult person to deal with, when Robertson of the US State Department commented on Syngman Rhee: he was a scheming, difficult negotiating opponent, good at flexibility, but this person was very emotional, and his presidency could lead his country to national suicide.