President Harry Truman.ĭeclassified Soviet archives revealed that then-Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin had given Kim Il Sung a “green light” to attack South Korea.Ī declassified August 27, 1950, telegram from Stalin to Czechoslovak President Klement Gottwald further revealed the Soviet dictator’s thinking.
“If we let Korea down, the Soviet will keep right on going and swallow up one piece of Asia after another,” said then-U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson had given a speech in which he excluded Korea from America’s defense perimeter.” “The year before, it had removed its last remaining troops from Korea,” wrote Greenspan. was focused on the European front of the Cold War with the Soviet Union and “appeared disinclined to intervene” in Korean affairs. In another article published by, journalist Jesse Greenspan wrote that at the time of the North Korean invasion, the U.S. President Ronald Reagan, wrote in Foreign Policy magazine in 2020.Īccording to, “the North Korean invasion came as an alarming surprise to American officials.” “While there is much to criticize about the behavior of ever-belligerent and irresponsible South Korean President Syngman Rhee, he was the one surprised on J– and would have been ousted if it weren’t for the swift American intervention,” Doug Bandow, a former special assistant to U.S. Douglas MacArthur and 15 other countries, including the United Kingdom, France, Australia, Canada, Turkey and Ethiopia. members to help “repel the attack and restore peace.” After that was ignored, the council passed resolutions asking U.N. Security Council passed Resolution 82 calling on North Korea to cease hostilities and withdraw. The day Pyongyang launched its invasion, the U.N. “Nearly 10,000 North and South Korean soldiers were killed in battle before the war even began.” Both sought to unify the peninsula by force and declared themselves as the sole rightful leader of a unified Korea. Kim ruled the north as a communist dictatorship, and Rhee also became increasingly authoritarian as the south’s ruler. Korean War veterans react as they shout slogans to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a parade to mark the 60th anniversary of the signing of a truce in the 1950-1953 Korean War, at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, North Korea.
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