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Sebastien Roblin, National Interest: 1,000,000 People Died during the Korean War. This Is the Forgotten Story of How It Started.
The Korean War is variously estimated to have claimed between 1.2 and three million lives, most of them civilian. Who was responsible for this tragedy?
For Western nations, the answer is uncomplicated: North Korea, backed by China and the Soviet Union, launched an unprovoked invasion of its southern neighbor in 1950.
An alternate history has been presented in Chinese textbooks, one in which the illegitimate lackeys of Western imperialists in the South attacked first, but China and the Soviet Union intervened to prevent an aggressive American invasion that threatened to sweep into China. The fact that a significant portion of North Korea’s population perished due to extensive U.S. bombing has made some sympathetic to the suffering of the small nation.
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WNU Editor: Yup .... this article brings back an experience that I had in China in the 1980s. At that time I got into a debate with some of my Chinese counterparts on the Korean war, and they sincerely believed that the Korean war was started by South Korea. I said no .... but they did not believe me.
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