On This Day: 1950, UN condemns North Korean invasion

[Dennis the 'Bloody Peasant']

North Korea has invaded South Korea at several points along the two countries' joint border.

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has denounced North Korea's actions as a breach of the peace and has called for an immediate ceasefire.
The United States President Harry S Truman has gone a step further and urged western nations to go out to Korea and help repel the communist invasion. "By their actions in Korea, communist leaders have demonstrated their contempt for the basic moral principles on which the United Nations is founded," he said.

(More at http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/25/newsid_2699000/2699641.stm)

[Sir Comradical]

There are arguments over which side actually started the war. I say the South Korean puppet government started it. This is from 'Socialist Korea' by Ellen Brun & Jacques Hersh:


But this does not mean that the question of the start of the war is irrelevant. When on June 25, a North Korean radio broadcast alleged that South Korea had attacked the city of Haeju north of the demarcation line, the U.N. ob servers did not find it worth an investigation. Instead they accepted the South Korean version of an unprovoked aggression from the North. According to Indian expert Karunakar Gupta, however, "a close study of the military situation along the 38th Parallel on 25 June, 1950 on the basis of official communiques, radio broadcasts, press agency and newspaper reports and U.N. documents should convince any detached scholar that a prima facie case for the South's invasion of the North does exist."

[MuscularTophFan]

There are arguments over which side actually started the war. I say the South Korean puppet government started it. This is from 'Socialist Korea' by Ellen Brun & Jacques Hersh:
Truman was pretty shocked when North Korea invaded South. He thought Syngman Rhee was gonna invade in the North. Syngman Rhee was really a right wing lunatic who prolonged the Korea War. The war could have ended a lot sooner if it wasn't for Syngman Rhee.



My grandfather fought in the Korean War. He spent 26 years in the marine core from 1940 to 1966. The only reason he retired from the marine core was because he didn't want to go to Vietnam. He was stationed in Japan at the time and was sent to Korea during the war. I mean I still can't believe he manged to survive Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and Korea War. My mother told me how he would wake during the middle of the night and start screaming probably from all the shit he saw. These war monger politicians need to take in account all of the horror and trauma soldiers have to suffer when they fight in their wars.