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"North Korea invaded South Korea" is one of the most successful lies in modern history.
There was no "North" or "South Korea". There was one nation, divided in 45 minutes by two US colonels using a National Geographic map.
Before a single US soldier landed, Koreans had already formed their own government. 135 People's Committees across the entire country. The US's own officer on the ground called them "genuine grassroots democratic" organizations.
The US dismantled them in the South, keeping in place the Japanese colonial police and Japanese-trained collaborators. Under the cover of the US military, the Japanese colonizers simply changed flags.
Then the US flew in their man. Syngman Rhee arrived on MacArthur's personal plane, with a passport the State Department had refused to issue.
Per the CIA's own assessment: he was "a demagogue bent on autocratic rule" who would pursue "ruthless suppression of all opposition."
The US military government polled Koreans in 1946. 70% preferred socialism. 14% preferred capitalism. For the US, this popular will was precisely the problem.
Rhee's forces massacred 100,000 to 200,000 of their own people before and during the war. US Army Signal Corps photographers were present. The photos sat classified for decades. MacArthur called it "an internal matter."
South Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel repeatedly in 1949. Battalion-sized attacks northward, documented by State Department historian John Merrill. An August 1949 incident found ROK troops already positioned north of the line.
The May 1950 elections, 26 days before the war, returned 130 independents against 49 Rhee seats. The population rejected him through every available channel.
Washington had a problem. Koreans wanted socialism. Korea reunified on Korean terms was Korea lost. That could not be permitted. So they went to war.
US Air Force General Curtis LeMay later admitted: "We burned down every town in North Korea... we killed off over a million civilian Koreans and drove several million more from their homes."
While burning the North, the US Army ordered its forces to strafe South Korean civilian refugee columns. "All civilians seen in this area are to be considered as enemy." They were defending no one.
North Korea lost a higher percentage of its population than any country in World War Two.
What happened in June 1950 was not an invasion of one country by another. It was a government with popular roots moving against a US-installed client that was massacring its own people and had just been repudiated at the ballot box.
Every word of this is in American archives. CIA ORE 15/48. FRUS 1945-1950. NARA RG 111. The Jeju 4.3 Investigation Report. Marshall's own cables. LeMay's own mouth.
Kim Il Sung called it a colonial scheme in 1948.
Decades of declassified US documents proved him right.
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