While it is true that both sides wanted to reunify, initially the South and North didn't have the capacity to do so. However, the instigators were still the USSR and to a certain degree, China (though their initial involvement was basically nothing due to their focus on the Guomindang in Taiwan), and no, I am not cherry picking anything. Otherwise how would the North have the ability to smash through South Korean forces like Legos in the initial stages of the war? In my sources that I provided above, Stalin's quotes and messages with Kim Il Sung and Mao were pretty clear and cited. On the other hand, if the Soviets only provided enough weapons and supplies for the North to defend themselves and explicitly told Kim to not invade only for Kim to invade SK, then it is definitely a civil war. HOWEVER, history shows that such a scenario didn't occur. Finally, I have every right to butt in whenever I want, especially when I definitely got my history straight, cited all my sources, and saw over-nationalistic disinformation being spouted like a broken fountain.You need to get your history straight before butting in The korean peninsula was divided between US and Russia after Japanese withdrawal So who is meddling whom here Isn't if for Korean themselve to decide their fate. YOU just pick and choose history to drive your agenda.Either of the korean want to reunify Korean under their rule. The Chinese does not get involve until North Korean got beaten and retreated to the border.It is the Soviet and not the Chinese that occupy north korea after Japan left
In 1950 the Korea Peninsula was divided between a Soviet-backed government in the north and an American-backed government in the south. The division of Korea into two halves had come at the end of World War II. In August of 1945 the Soviet Union invaded Korea, which had been under Japan's control since 1910. Fearing that the Soviets intended to seize the entire peninsula from their position in the north, the United States quickly moved its own troops into southern Korea. Japanese troops surrendered to the Russians in the north and to the Americans in the south. In an effort to avoid a long-term decision regarding Korea's future, the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to divide Korea temporarily along the 38th parallel, a latitudinal line that bisected the country. This line became more rigid after 1946, when Kim Il Sung organized a communist government in the north---the Democratic People's Republic. Shortly after, nationalist exile Syngman Rhee returned to Korea and set up a rival government in the south---the Republic of Korea (ROK). Each government hoped to reunify the country under its own rule.
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