In reality the Korean War was the result of two rival nationalists representing two very different views of Korea, with the guy with the better nationalist cred, Kim Il Sung, the undisputed loser of the war. He had better nationalist cred in that while Syngman Rhee was busy fighting Japanese from the safety of Los Angeles, Il Sung and others who'd go on to found North Korea were fighting them *in Korea.*
Rhee's government would go on to have a lot of the people who collaborated with Imperial Japan (y'know, the guys responsible for Nanking and Unit 731) while Sung's government found a lot of Stalinists, who were very much disliked by the pro-Chinese faction.
Everything goes to shit in 1950 and the solution satisfied nobody.
In Vietnam, similar process, the RVN collaborated with the local imperialist power (France instead of Japan), Ho and his cohorts had fought both France *and* Imperial Japan (when they realized "Asia for the Asiatics" really meant "Japan Uber Alles"), the USA got involved for no real reason at all, and the resolution even moreso was unable to satisfy anyone.
The USA commanded the UN forces in the Korean War, which is such a marvelous success that we've got half that peninusla divided between the Last Stalinist Regime On the Planet and the other half with said People's Republic of Tyranny holding 50 years of accumulated artillery at its capital, the 9th largest financial center in the world.
Now in Operation: Not A War we're lobbing cruise missiles directly at He Of Many Spellings, missing him, and proving that the same process whereby Korea transformed from a simple military exercise to the closest the two superpowers ever got to atomic warfare in the Cold War applies in the 2010s, from another UN intervention in other peoples' civil war.
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Re: Huge difference.
Date: 21/3/11 17:10 (UTC)In reality the Korean War was the result of two rival nationalists representing two very different views of Korea, with the guy with the better nationalist cred, Kim Il Sung, the undisputed loser of the war. He had better nationalist cred in that while Syngman Rhee was busy fighting Japanese from the safety of Los Angeles, Il Sung and others who'd go on to found North Korea were fighting them *in Korea.*
Rhee's government would go on to have a lot of the people who collaborated with Imperial Japan (y'know, the guys responsible for Nanking and Unit 731) while Sung's government found a lot of Stalinists, who were very much disliked by the pro-Chinese faction.
Everything goes to shit in 1950 and the solution satisfied nobody.
In Vietnam, similar process, the RVN collaborated with the local imperialist power (France instead of Japan), Ho and his cohorts had fought both France *and* Imperial Japan (when they realized "Asia for the Asiatics" really meant "Japan Uber Alles"), the USA got involved for no real reason at all, and the resolution even moreso was unable to satisfy anyone.
The USA commanded the UN forces in the Korean War, which is such a marvelous success that we've got half that peninusla divided between the Last Stalinist Regime On the Planet and the other half with said People's Republic of Tyranny holding 50 years of accumulated artillery at its capital, the 9th largest financial center in the world.
Now in Operation: Not A War we're lobbing cruise missiles directly at He Of Many Spellings, missing him, and proving that the same process whereby Korea transformed from a simple military exercise to the closest the two superpowers ever got to atomic warfare in the Cold War applies in the 2010s, from another UN intervention in other peoples' civil war.