What Caused The Korean War

Thanks to some of our viewers for reminding me about M*A*S*H. I used to really enjoy it... 😂

As a Korean I'd really like to appreciate for the sacrifices your ancestors made for freedom 🇫🇷🇺🇸🇬🇧 Belgium, Turkey, Netherland, Luxembourg, Thailand, Philippines, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Colombia, South Africa, Ethiopia and Greece! And other countries gave out supplies for innocent civilians.

“Did you hear the news? The war is almost over.” -PFC Walter Knight. July 9th 1953. Almost immediately after he said those words. He stepped on a landmine and was killed. Rest In Peace uncle Walter. (1931-1953)

Thank you and Respects to every foreign soldier fought in the war for us Koreans

I seriously question whether your animators have ever seen a picture of Preident Truman. It looks like a balding John Bolton

My grandpa fought in the Korean War. He served on two different aircraft carriers.

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The soldiers are misplaced.
PPsh-41 is a Soviet gun

I'm 2nd generation Korean American. I've been waiting for this! Thank you Infographics!

Might be interesting to see how the Korean War can also be seen as the "forgotten war" sense Vietnam and WW2 are the two that is universally known and the Korean war is just seen as an arbitrary conflict that occurred.

Stationed in Korea right now. It's surreal to think I'm here because of something that happened so long ago.

it’s nice to see people talking about this war more. my (american) grandpa served in it + i feel like people often forget that there’s vets from korea

Why does the American supported south Korea have Soviet SMGs and the Soviet supported north have American SMGs

How many times are we gonna surprise attack on a beach before people notice that’s our only surprise move

"The south democratic"

No, not at that time.

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Being South Korean, it’s nice to know that other people are looking at Korean history! 사랑해!

You strangely failed to mention several very important facts:


1. After Japan's capitulation, both the US and the Soviet Union refused to recognized the Korean Provisional Government in exile headed by Kim Gu, and whose army had fought in China against the Japanese. Instead, they set up the Trustship after the 1945 Moscow Conference. The Trustship was supposed to make recommendations for celebrating elections for a United Korea. However, that never happened.

2. Instead, while Stalin set up a separate government in the north, Gen. MacArthur and the OSS used former Japanese collaborators in order to set up a separate government in the South. Those former collaborators then designated Syngman Rhee as President.
3. Syngman Rhee had his competitor for the 1948 Election for President, Kim Gu, killed in 1949.
4. Once Syngman Rhee assumed the Presidency in 1948, he became a dictator who had thousands of political dissidents killed. Several massacres are known like the Jeju Island Massacre and the Mungyeong Massacre.
5. The US returned Syngman Rhee to power in the South in 1951. Syngman Rhee stayed in power as a virtual dictator until he was overthown in 1960.

Today is the day of outbreak of the Korean War Seventy years ago, many countries helped South Korea to protect democracy in this land. We are always grateful and respectful to them.
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Korean War began on my birthday, June 25. Wasn't born that year but still find it fascinating that a Cold War conflict began on my birthday. After the war, the North captured a US spy ship that they still have in Pyongyang called the USS Pueblo

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