[hoosierham]

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[ErnstStavroBlofeld]

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[Verginius Rufus]

Well, textbooks in the US teach that the war of 1861-1865 was a civil war started by the South. Almost the same thing.

I had never realized that the North Koreans claimed that the South Koreans started the war. Amazing. I can understand the Chinese siding with the North Koreans since they are all Communists, but will China lend Obama all those trillions of dollars the North Koreans are demanding in reparations?

[Palter]

Recent:

CIA Files Show U.S. Blindsided By Korean War

[hinckley buzzard]

No sane historian or observer has ever said anything otherwise. And the Norks did it with Stalin's blessing. The West still owes Russia a city up in radioactive smoke to payback for the Nork obscenity.

[SunkenCiv]

The lengthy feature in Xinhua's International Herald Leader, timed for the 60th anniversary of the start of the war, had a time line that stated: "The North Korean military crossed the parallel on June 25th, 1950 and Seoul was taken in four days." The article was widely distributed among Chinese news portals and agencies. After news of the story spread in Korean yesterday, the original article was found to have been deleted from all Web sites it had been posted on, including Xinhua. Textbooks for Chinese students still teach that the conflict was a civil war started by an invasion by the United States of the North. Pyongyang has always insisted the same thing.

Thanks sonofstrangelove.

[elpadre]

Yes, NK started it with surprise invasion of the South in 1950 driving the US and ROK troops back to Pusan. When the counter attack reversed the NK thrust and pushed NK back to the NK’s Northern border, the Chinese sent a huge army to save their communist friends, and the give and take lasted until summer ‘53 when a cease-fire was agreed upon.

The Chinese were the primary combatants.

[PhilDragoo]

"Secrets of the Korean War"