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XemaSab

(60,212 posts) Fri Dec 13, 2013, 05:47 PM Dec 2013

Question for the old timers about Korea

If it had been clear how North Korea was going to turn out, would there have been a difference in how the US waged the Korean war?

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Question for the old timers about Korea (Original Post) XemaSab Dec 2013 OP

The KW was before my time, but I think that question is better posed... JHB Dec 2013 #1

No upaloopa Dec 2013 #2

Two things jberryhill Dec 2013 #3

JHB

(37,157 posts)

1. The KW was before my time, but I think that question is better posed...

Reply to XemaSab (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2013, 05:54 PM

Dec 2013

...to China.

NK exists today because they entered the war.

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)

2. No

Reply to XemaSab (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2013, 05:58 PM

Dec 2013

Two things, we were part of a UN force and Russia had nuclear weapons and was supporting the North as was China.
There could have been a WWIII

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

3. Two things

Reply to XemaSab (Original post)

Fri Dec 13, 2013, 09:02 PM

Dec 2013

1. The Korean War is not over, it is merely in a state of ceasefire.

2. Any result approaching a "win" would have brought us into direct confrontation with China and, absent nukes, they would have taken the entire peninsula. With nukes, the outcome is also undesirable. Arguably, North Koreans would be better off now under Chinese rule.

3. The conflict was more directly a UN police action, not a solo US effort.

Uh, that's three things. Oh well.

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