Cause(s) of the Korean War

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The Korean War. Almost became the Third World War, and many Koreans didn't like it. Now, what had caused this war, a bloody war that killed, wounded, or misplaced around 4 million people?

After the Second World War ended and the Empire of Japan gave up most of its colonies, including the Korean Peninsula, many Koreans were happy that they could now govern themselves. The temporary Korean government organized in Shanghai finally came back to Korea and made the 조선건국준비위원회, or the Joeson (Korea) Foundation Preparing Council. two-thirds of the people there were communists, but that's not important. The important fact, is that Koreans were angered when they heard that the USSR, USA, GBR, and France had a secret meeting in Moscow about the future of Korea, and that the U.S. would control Korea below 48-degrees latitude for three years, while the Soviets, in which at the time temporarily controlled Manchuria (a former Japanese colony/puppet state right above Korea), occupied the North side of the 48-degrees latitude for three years. Many of those in the South rebelled against in what many Koreans know as "신탁 통치" (Shintack Tongchi,). The North didn't agree. Then a political leader, Kim Gu, who was a key in Korean independence, held a "Protest against Shintack Tongchi". And both sides agreeing and being against it showed up. And there was a bloody fight.

Syngman Lee. Flickr/(CC)

Eventually, 1948 showed up and the three-year period ended, whether Koreans hated or not. During the three-year period, many in the North started believing in Communism, and the South was the exact opposite. And someone in the crowd shouted,

"Let's just make a government in the South first! A capitalistic, democratic government!"

The name of the shouter was Syngman Lee, who was a fighter for Korean independence, relied on the U.S., and the first, second and third president of South Korea. (And he also tried to become dictator but eventually got executed to Hawaii) Eventually, the constitution was made in July 17th 1948, and the Republic of Korea was born exactly three years after Korean independence/End of WWII.

Kim Il Sung right after the Korean War started

Now the South Korean government was made, many North Koreans did not like that. and in less than four months, Kim Il Sung founded the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

And then you know the rest of the story- the communists wanted all of the Korean Peninsula to be like them so they invaded the South in a quite Sunday dawn, the dawn of June 25th, 1950.

So what caused the Korean War?
The correct answer is: the Americans and the Soviets.
Too bad South Koreans are TOO much trying to copy looking and living like Americans. And we will remember that the form of government isn't important at all; the only important thing is the happiness of the peoples.



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