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Submitted by ashamsi on January 21, 2007
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The famous Truman doctrine proclaimed on March 12th 1947 that “it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures” was one of the main reasons as to why Truman helped the South Koreans regain their land from the communist Northern Koreans and their Soviet counterparts.
By 1948, the communist Soviet’s and the capitalist Americans agreed to a temporarily partitioning of Korea along the 38th parallel of latitude into a northern Soviet zone and a southern American zone. The two superpowers failed to reach an agreement on the conditions of reunification and thereupon permitted the establishment in their respective zones of a government that claimed sovereignty over the entire country.
The United States decided to back a local right wing elite land owner from the South called Syngman Rhee. The USSR sympathized with communist North Koreans and placed a local communist leader called Kim Il-Sung. This division of governments was not ‘official’, and a border on the 38th parallel was not in place, Koreans were allowed to move from North to South easily without any restrictions. However, as peaceful as it seemed, instability was increasing throughout the state. Problems between the Northern and Southern governments increased, and as each of the governments was armed by its foreign ally, war was inevitable.
On June the 25th 1950, over 100,000 thousand North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel and into South Korea, claiming the land to belong to Kim Il-Sung’s government. Within a time frame of just 48 hours, the North Korean army had captured the South Korean capital of Seoul on June the 27th. That same day, the UN Security Council was discussing a resolution facing the issue and how to help the South Koreans survive the attack. The UN session was going ahead without the Soviet delegation as the Soviets were boycotting the Security Council...
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