North Vietnam and North Korea

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Both countries suffered massive military invasions and destruction,and yet,the North Vietnamese managed to fight off the Americans due in part to the NLF.From my current perspective the guerrillas had a lot to do with the imperialist withdrawal,which makes using rural fighters a winning strategy.Yet,the North Koreans never employed such a tactic as to arm South Korean rebel groups (assuming there were any such organizations).

So,my question is: Why did the North Koreans never arm or aid dissident factions within South Korea? Surly,like in South Vietnam,there were groups which wanted to overthrow the occupied government.

[Ned Kelly]

The North Korean regime was by and large installed by the USSR.
The North Vietnamese regime attained the leadership through a home grown and organic struggle, people identified with the regime.

[chegitz guevara]

Singman Rhee, the South Korean dictator, slaughtered about 100,000 suspected communists and leftists after WWII and the Korean Civil War. There may simply have been no one in the South to arm.

[Geiseric]

North Korea was a puppet government installed by moscow. Kim Il Sung was a red army captain during WW2 and had almost nothing to do with the revolution.

[Comrade Wolfie's Very Nearly Banned Adventures]

The two wars were very diffrent in nature, the Korean War was a full scale 'total war' similar to WWII, where as the Vietnam War was much more low key, protracted, and essentially a guerilla war. Guerilla tactics in the Korean War would have been unlikely to produce much results, and be fairly costly in manpower. Also It's important to remember than the Frontlines in the Korean War changed fairly rapidly, where in the Vietnam War there wern't really any frontlines until the very end when the NVA invaded the south.

[chimx]

So,my question is: Why did the North Koreans never arm or aid dissident factions within South Korea? Surly,like in South Vietnam,there were groups which wanted to overthrow the occupied government.

Guerilla attacks happened in the ROK, but the Korean communist movement up to 1950 was extremely divided

[scarletghoul]

Singman Rhee, the South Korean dictator, slaughtered about 100,000 suspected communists and leftists after WWII and the Korean Civil War. There may simply have been no one in the South to arm.
Estimates go as high as one point two million suspected communists executed in the Bodo League massacre. And thats according to a South Korean organisation. 100,000 is the very minimum.

There were still some southern guerilla groups, but the whole thing was severely weakened it seems by simple brute repression and murder.

[Princess Luna]

The two wars were very diffrent in nature, the Korean War was a full scale 'total war' similar to WWII, where as the Vietnam War was much more low key, protracted, and essentially a guerilla war. Guerilla tactics in the Korean War would have been unlikely to produce much results, and be fairly costly in manpower. Also It's important to remember than the Frontlines in the Korean War changed fairly rapidly, where in the Vietnam War there wern't really any frontlines until the very end when the NVA invaded the south.
i disagree , the mountainess regions of North Korea would have been perfect for guerilla warfare.

[pranabjyoti]

i disagree , the mountainess regions of North Korea would have been perfect for guerilla warfare.
Well, in my opinion, a guerrilla warfare will certainly be raised if the war spread upto the mountainous regions of NK. But, I have doubt whether any war has been waged there.