Was the Korean War right or wrong?

I AM THE RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY

YESSS!!!!!!

MacArthur and Chesty made short work of the north.

wraeth - PHA

Ask the south Koreans

spartan 117

ask the South Korean who lost there family's by the North and you well find the Answer..

Laurence B

I do not know enough to form an opinion there. But at the moment North Korea is under a dictatorship. So... Meh.

mindworms

The Korean war was just, and it EVEN received support from the United nations!!!
US were right to participate because they were defending their ally, and their interests in that part of the world.

knight

Ask South Korea. (Yes!)

D R

although the US took a leading part in this war so did many other countries including the UK and it was a united nations action that took them there, as to the right and wrongs look closely at the north and south of that nation then form a judgement.

Roadrunner58-79

The United States was absolutely right in taking part in the Korean War, because South Korea was invaded by North Korea and we had to defend South Korea against communist forces!!

rance42

The older Koreans will tell you with a resounding YES. Or at least those who remember the war. I know spent two tours in Korea, one before Marshal law was lifted and one after.

allen555

Right. The North Koreans saw an opportunity to communise the whole penninsular and invaded. They had no right to do that. USA believes in the Domino Theory and approached the UN for a task force.

Daniel

right

forgivebutdonotforget911

North Korea invaded South Korea.

UN debated what to do. USSR got pissed off and walked out.

Vote came up to send troops. USSR not there to veto the vote so the vote carried. Troops got sent under the UN banner.

USSR learned its lesson and has never walked out of a UN vote since that time.

Later in the war when we had pushed North Korea all the way back to its Northern border with Communist China and almost had them beat, some dumb *** Army Captains invaded China, allowing China to send in "volunteers" because the USA attacked China.

And all the USA could do was admit it.

Goes to show you the problems that can happen when subordinates DO NOT OBEY THEIR ORDERS!!!!

JohnDoe

Why don't you ask the South Koreans that still have their country and their freedom.

jason c

For who?

korean

the war was absoltely right.
i am korean.
think korea is communistic country.
i know so many people were dead, but american saved korea. they gave us free from communist. i loathe north korean depite i am also korean(south). they are making nuclear. they are violating law againt world. i think america
was absoultely right. i am proud of america. they
are my favorite race......

desertviking_00

The Korean conflict was a UN Peace Enforcement Mission ordered by the UN Security Council under Chapter Seven of the UN Charter. It was the first ever of these peace enforcement missions. The U.S. Congress had passed the UN Support Act in 1946. So, we were already committed, as a national policy, to get involved in such an endeavor.
The problem was the lack of understanding by the ranking military commander of the UN Peace Enforcement Mission. He didn't understand that this was not the type of war he had previously fought in. The mission's objective was to restore the state of things which existed before North Korean forces invaded South Korea. Nothing more. Nothing less. Six days after the amphibious landings at Inchon, that objective had been achieved. But, General MacArthur continued pursuing those North Korean forces up to the banks of the Yalu River and wound up bringing China into the conflict and prolonging hostilies.
General Schwarzkopf, in his command of the UN Peace Enforcement Mission in 1991, understood the purpose of such a mission and its objective. Once Iraqi forces had been expelled from Kuwait and the state of things which existed before that invasion had been restored, the entire military action was halted.
Lesson learned? You have to read your orders.

Dir33

First of all war is not right, then whether the Korean war was right or wrong I am not sure but I can and will be able to show you good and wrong things within the war . Right and wrong exist on a conventional level, even if they don't exist at the "ultimate" level Right and wrong are dependently co-arisen phenomena like everything else. They have no intimacy, but they still present us with practical problems also. US and USSR decision to split the Korean peninsula at the 38 parallel after the 2nd world war was wrong. They should have divided the country at war with them â€œJapanâ€ not a victim of war Korea. In Europe they had divided German. The Americans felt that the soviet had done nothing much in the pacific so they used the criteria in Europe in the pacific where it was not relevant. The Americans and the Soviets should have just liberated Korea.

Kim II Sung's attack on South Korea, after which the cold war turned hot for Americans was wrong taking into consideration the agreement between the US and Soviet Union after the 2nd world war . If the USSR had earlier agreed to a plan with the US on dividing the Korea why they decided to extend the borders still come as a question. So the six million American intervention forces were right.

There was a failure to make plain ahead of time that such aggression would indeed be resisted. There was also a mistaken assumption, when the aggression came, that it must be the product of Stalin's own master plan for worldwide Communist conquest.
There came a mistaken intensification of the belief that all Communist actions everywhere were part of a single, implacably aggressive, worldwide war against freedom itself. Of which it was the case here the Koreans wanted to unite.

That it was right to decide to fight, but wrong not to share that decision with a ready and willing US Congress; that it was right to fire Gen. Douglas MacArthur, but wrong not to control him or fire him sooner; that it was right to go somewhat beyond the 38th Parallel, but wrong to approach the Yalu River in the face of Chinese warnings; that it was right not to use the bomb, but wrong not to be steadily clear about that choice. It was wrong for UN to put it's policies on a General . It was right for the Chinese to fight back and restore the 38 parallel which the UN had failed to implement . It was wrong for US and USSR for allowing Korea to be divided in the first place, or for failing to impose its unification later.

South Koreans and Americans have remained friends which is wrong. North Korea and Russia have remained friends which is wrong. As the warning of the cold war brings near the prospect of constructive change in North Korea, that friendship can have great impact on the prospect for peace and freedom in a newly united Korea.

The great mistake we make is to create and impose upon the cosmos value systems that brook no change that filter everything into absolute categories like right and wrong, good and evil, light and dark. This is the primary fault of the Americans and the Soviets mistakes before and after that decision, but I share the prevailing neutral judgment, both at the time and in later years, that the decision for the Korean War Was Wrong.

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