Originally Posted by
joshua259
i know right
when japan fell, the korean peninsula was liberated from 30+ years of japanese colonial rule; this would have been a good thing...however, to appease the powers that be,
a bunch of US politicians, brokered a deal with Russia, and by random picked the 38th parallel as a demarcation line to divide the peninsula between the two occupying forces, until it would be decided that the Koreans are fit for self-rule...this was done without consulting the Korean people
well, Russia is to blame too for sowing the seeds of communism in the north, but from what i've been studying, the division of the peninsula was mainly an american idea
the Korean war wouldnt happen in the first place if they didnt divide the country in the first place...it's something that irks many Koreans to this day: why did their country, a victim of WWII (just like our own), get divided in two, while the agressor, Japan, gets to stay intact...why was their country treated the same way as Hitler's Germany (i.e. divided in two)?